PODCAST: Wider attention must be paid to PrEP for HIV/Aids prevention - professor | IOL

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Professor Salim S. Abdool Karim, the director of the Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa, spoke to Kuben Chetty ahead of World Aids Day. Picture: Motshwari Mofokeng/ANA

Durban - Wider attention must be drawn to a new HIV prevention approach of “a pill a day”, referred to as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP),  Professor Salim S. Abdool Karim believes .
Karim, the director of the Centre for the AIDS  Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) based in Durban and  CAPRISA Professor of Global Health at the Mailman School of Public Health  at Columbia University in the US, spoke to  Kuben Chetty about SA's  successes, failures and challenges as we mark World Aids Day on December  1.
Karim is also chairperson of the UNAIDS Scientific Expert Panel and  chairperson of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee for HIV