Top US award goes to S African Indian-origin AIDS researchers
25 Oct 2017 9:50 PM IST
Johannesburg: A globally-acclaimed South African Indian-origin researcher couple was honoured on Wednesday with a prestigious award for their exceptional contributions in the field of HIV/AIDS. Professors Salim Abdool Karim and Quarraisha Abdool Karim received the award from the Institute for Human Virology (IHV) in Baltimore in the US.
The award was presented to them by Robert Gallo, who discovered HIV as the cause of AIDS at the 19th international meeting of the IHV. "To me both these renowned individuals have made some of the greatest contributions in the history of HIV/Aids in
public health and epidemiology relevant to prevention and care of infected people " Gallo said in a
statement. "I don't know any person or persons who have done more to advance the proper care of people with HIV infection or the prevention of HIV infection among a population," Gallo said. Salim Abdool Karim is the director of the Centre for the Aids Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) and Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim is its associate scientific director. The researchers, who are currently involved in the development of innovative ways of preventing HIV in women, are both professors of epidemiology at Columbia University in New York and are honorary academics at the University of KwaZulu.
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