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BY Ben Ebuka, 4:30pm March 07, 2023,

Four facts about South Africa’s Quarraisha Abdool Karim, the first woman to head The World Academy of Sciences

by Ben Ebuka, 4:30pm March 07, 2023,

She led the CAPRISA 004 Tenofovir Gel Trial

She was the Principal Investigator of the ground-breaking CAPRISA 004 Tenofovir Gel Trial that provided proof of concept of microbicides recognized by Science as one of the Top 10 Landmark Scientific Breakthroughs in 2010.

She became a Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. She is also a visiting scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a visiting lecturer at Harvard University.

Last Edited by:Mildred Europa Taylor Updated: March 7, 2023

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