Forbes September 25, 2024
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Last week, the 2024 Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award was granted to married duo Quarraisha Abdool Karim and Salim S. Abdool Karim.The South African-born researchers began their work while both were at Columbia University in New York during the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. That disease wasn’t the focus of their research at the time, but that changed quickly. “HIV absolutely dominated New York in 1988,” Salim told Forbes. And the two realized that the disease wasn’t going to stay there. “When we got back to South Africa, we committed ourselves to work on HIV,” he continued.

Back home, their research led them to...

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