PARIS, May 28 — A South African HIV researcher who found that a topical gel could stop many women catching the virus has been awarded one of France's top science prizes. Quarraisha Abdool Karim won the half a million-euro (RM2.39 million) Christophe Merieux Prize for her work for the Durban-based...
Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim, 2016 Laureate of the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards. — Natural Science/ Wikipedia pic via AFP
Quarraisha Abdool Karim won the half a million-euro Christophe Merieux Prize for her work for the Durban-based Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa , which she heads. They also hailed her work on vaccines for the virus and how to treat people who have tuberculosis and are also HIV positive.
Abdool Karim, 60, has previously won her homeland's highest honour, the Order of Mapungubwe, as well as a prestigious L'Oréal-Unesco for Women in Science award.
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