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On June 5, Michel Sidibé, the
executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS),
announced the appointment of Professor Salim S. Abdool Karim, a South African
scientist, as chair of the newly established UNAIDS Scientific Expert Panel.
Sidibé made the announcement in Durban, South Africa, at the UNAIDS Scientific
Symposium on the implications of the “Mississippi baby” for public health
programs on mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
Professor Karim holds academic
appointments at Columbia University in New York and at the University of
KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, and is interim president of the South African Medical
Research Council.
The newly established panel will
provide strategic advice on the relevance of new research and findings and how
these findings can be implemented rapidly to best effect in preventing new HIV
infections and improving the lives of HIV-infected people. The members of the
UNAIDS Scientific Expert Panel will be announced in the coming weeks.
The Friends of AIDS Foundation is
dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for HIV positive individuals and
empowering people to make healthy choices to prevent the spread of the HIV
virus. To learn more about The Friends of AIDS Foundation, please visit: http://www.friendsofaids.org.
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