Quarraisha Abdool Karim

Quarraisha Abdool Karim is an infectious diseases epidemiologist and co-founder and Associate Scientific Director of CAPRISA. She is a Professor in Clinical Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York and Pro-Vice Chancellor for African Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Quotes

• As we experienced with contraceptives, something that you take every day is not for everyone and that's why we have a diversity of contraceptives.
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• As far as women go, there's a lot more we still need to do,"
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• It could only be that the younger girls were having sex with men from the older age group,
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• Aids six or seven years down the line was less of a priority than survival today,
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• The vulnerability of young women is very much tied into gender power differences in society.
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• For most of my life I thought about science and its application to leaving people better off, so I wanted to be a scientist and do something that would help people.
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• [Women] continue to inspire me to persist with my scientific endeavors. While some progress has been made, much more remains to be done to ensure a non-sexist and just society.
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