She has several awards, including South Africa’s highest honor, the Order of Mapungubwe
Abdool Karim has earned more than 30 recognitions and awards for her scientific works on HIV/AIDS, including the John F.W. Herschel Award from the Royal Society of South African (2021); Kwame Nkrumah Prize for Science and Technology, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Institute of Human Virology in the USA; and the 2018 Ward Cates Spirit Award from HIV Prevention Trials Network.
She holds two honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Johannesburg (2017) and the University of Stellenbosch (2020). She is a recipient of the ‘Living Legend’, an honor from the City of Durban bestowed on citizens who make an outstanding contribution to the development of the City. She is married and lives in Durban with her husband, Salim, a South African epidemiologist, public health physician, virologist, and researcher, and they have three children.
