SA scientist wins AIDS research award

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AIDS 2016

A young South African scientist walked away with a prestigious HIV/AIDS research award when five scientific awards to recognise exceptional research were presented at the 21st International AIDS Conference, which ended in Durban on Friday.
Dr Sinaye Ngcapu was awarded the AIDS 2016 Women, Girls and HIV Investigator’s Prize for his winning abstract entitled ‘The effect of injectable hormonal contraceptives on vaginal epithelium thickness and genital HIV target cell density in women recently infected with HIV’.
The announcement was made at the Symposium Session at the AIDS 2016 conference.
Ngcapu works for the Centre for the Aids Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA).
The honours were presented to 10 recipients by the International AIDS Society (IAS), the organiser of the Aids conference. IAS said this prize highlights the impact of HIV on women and girls and seeks to encourage investigators from low-and middle-income countries to pursue research in this area. Ngcapu won himself R28 000 for his efforts.

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