HIV/AIDS in South Africa. SS Abdool Karim, Q Abdool Karim. Cambridge University Press, September 2005, £35. ISBN 0521616298

Salim “Slim” Abdool Karim: Attacking AIDS in South Africa

When Karim met Nelson Mandela for the second time in 2000, he had his camera in tow, ready to capture a photo of him shaking the hand of his hero. Mandela later wrote the foreword to Karim and his wife's book, HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Karim has witnessed the emergence and exponential growth of the AIDS epidemic in his country, along with the concurrent explosion of tuberculosis. To reverse the...

Drug concentrations after topical and oral antiretroviral pre-exposure prophylaxis: implications for HIV prevention in women.

Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa (Prof S S Abdool Karim MBChB, L Werner MSc, Prof Q Abdool Karim PhD); Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, NY, USA (Prof S S Abdool Karim, Prof Q Abdool Karim); and Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, Eshelman School of ...

Abdool Karim antiretroviral treatment for HIV Patients ' readiness to start highly active

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1. Schneider H, Blaauw D, Dartnall E, et al. STD care in the South African private health sector. S Afr Med J 2001; 91: 151-156. 2. Connolly AM, Wilkinson D, Harrison A, Lurie M, Abdool Karim SS. Inadequate treatment for sexually transmitted diseases in the South African private health sector. Int J STD AIDS 1999; 10: 324-327. 3. Chabikuli N, Schneider H, Blaauw D, et al. Equity in the provisio...

1 Eternal Universe Karim

In December of 1998, there was published a seminal work using precise measurements of supernovae magnitudes and leading to the conclusion of an apparent accelerated expansion of observed part of Universe. But when we approach the processing of these precise data from a classical ethereal position, without relativistic adjustments, we get another picture, and we believe it is the correct one. It...