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

Ben Ebuka 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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