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  1. 2 days ago · Text by: Zama Luthuli, the writer is AFP's Southern Africa Correspondent Through decades of pioneering work on fighting the spread of infectious diseases such as HIV, South African public health power couple Quarraisha and Salim Abdool Karim are credited with saving thousands of lives. Married for 36 years, the epidemiologists -- both aged 64 ...

  2. Sep 21, 2024 · Professors Salim Abdool Karim and his wife Quarraisha Abdool Karim at the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) in Durban. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP)

  3. Sep 21, 2024 · The Lasker–Bloomberg Public Service Award was won by husband-and-wife team Salim Abdool Karim and Quarraisha Abdool Karim, both of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research (Durban, South Africa). Salim and Quarraisha grew up under apartheid. “We know what it means to be told ‘you are Black, you are inferior’”, said Salim.

  4. Sep 19, 2024 · In addition, Salim Abdool Karim is the first African scientist to be appointed to the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine. The couple have served as science advisors of the WHO; UNAIDS; PEPFAR; the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

  5. Pakistani actor Mahira Khan married businessman Salim Karim in a dreamy wedding ceremony in 2023.

  6. Sep 19, 2024 · This year, on September 19, another power couple, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, PhD, and Salim S. Abdool Karim, MBChB, PhD, were awarded the 2024 Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award for their decades of work on AIDS in Africa—from first recognizing the unique dynamics of HIV transmission in South Africa to providing evidence for antiretroviral ...

  7. 4 days ago · South Africa’s infectious disease specialists, husband and wife team Quarraisha and Salim Abdool Karim, are among the nominees for the international Lasker Awards, a highly regarded set of prizes given for advances in medicine and public health research. The 2024 Lasker Medical Research Awards are divided into three categories, and will be presented at a […]