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  • How COVID-19 Must Transform US Global Health Strategy

    While the COVID-19 pandemic is raging in the US, Africa faces the prospect of imminent catastrophe, where at least 300,000 Africans could die from the disease and 29 million people may be pushed into extreme poverty. Viruses do not respect borders, and we know that America will not be safe if COVID-19 is out of control on other continents.

    April 21, 2020
    The Hill

  • Helen Rees: The Prof Leading SA’s COVID-19 Vaccine Trial

    If one were to list all the titles and positions held by Prof. Helen Rees, who is leading the SA part of a global trial to identify treatments for COVID-19, there would be no space to write anything else.

    April 9, 2020
    General
    finacialmail

  • Deborah Birx: The US Colonel at War With Coronavirus

    The image on the slide deck was stark — a chart in the form of a towering blue mountain that showed the US facing a potential 2.2m deaths from coronavirus, were certain measures not taken. But the voice delivering the message was calm, almost soothing.

    April 6, 2020
    General
    Financial Times

  • COVID-19: The HIV Research Advocacy Movement Offers Lessons

    In biomedical research, there is a “before HIV” era, and the world we live in now. Before HIV, most responses to public health crises were dictated top-down by government authorities and medical officials. Research was designed and conducted with little or no community input. Innovation was shunned, collaboration between research institutions avoided, and progress was slow.

    April 6, 2020
    General
    Science Speaks

  • Top HIV Scientist Dies From Coronavirus in ‘Huge Blow’ to the Global Fight Against HIV/AIDS

    Professor Gita Ramjee, a highly acclaimed scientist who dedicated her life to fighting and preventing HIV, has sadly died of coronavirus.

    April 2, 2020
    General
    Pink News

  • Deborah Birx, AIDS Researcher, Takes a Prominent Role in Coronavirus Messaging for Trump Administration

    When the urgent phone call came last month, respected HIV researcher Deborah Birx was meeting with African officials and activists from around the world at a Johannesburg conference to help determine how US AIDS relief funding would be doled out.

    March 25, 2020
    General
    Los Angeles Times

  • Good News, Bad News in HIV Prevention Research

    There was good news and bad news in terms of HIV vaccine and therapeutics research, with several vaccine trials pushing forward even as one came to a premature halt.

    March 13, 2020
    Antibody Related Research, HIV Vaccine
    MedPage Today

  • Esnart Sikazindu Advocates HIV Prevention

    Esnart Sikazindu’s stint with AVAC as a Fellow in 2020 is a step towards becoming an HIV prevention research advocate.

    March 6, 2020
    General
    Zambia Daily Mail

  • It’s Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Race

    Before we begin the real story, a little bit of fiction. There is a cluster of houses of complex architecture. Unfortunately, they are in a neighbourhood teeming with the dangerous and cunning criminals. The houses are protec­ted by sophisticated security systems to fight off intruders. They have multiple layers of response mechanisms from the moment any intrusion is detected. They are engineered so that they can assess the threat perception and neutralize the intruder through a series of autonomous actions at different levels.

    February 22, 2020
    HIV Vaccine
    Outlook

  • We’ll Only Rest Once We Get Vaccine, Say Experts Despite Failed Test

    HIV researchers in Kenya and around the world are regrouping to look for a way forward after a promising new vaccine failed a critical test.

    February 11, 2020
    HIV Vaccine
    Daily Nation

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