At the final plenary session of the Sixth EDCTP Forum the two EDCTP Awards to outstanding senior and junior African scientists working on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria were presented. The winner of the Senior Scientist Award was Professor Salim Abdool Karim, Director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA). He said in his acceptance speech that, in giving him the award, EDCTP was honouring not only himself but also the entire team of some 380 people at CAPRISA.

 

EDCTP’s Junior Scientist Award went to Hannock Tweya of the Lighthouse Trust, Malawi. Mr Tweya has been involved in many aspects of the work of the Trust which provides care to over 22,000 people living with HIV, including home-based care, anti-retroviral therapy (ART) provision and other services. He has published on loss to follow-up in research cohorts and HIV in pregnancy, among other topics. Thanking EDCTP for the award, Mr Tweya said he would use it to advance research that would improve people’s lives.