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March 13, 2025

COMMUNITY AND GLOBAL HEALTH

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The Desmond Tutu Health Foundation Reduces the Impact of HIV and TB in South Africa

The Desmond Tutu Health Foundation has spent the past 20 years trying to reduce the impact of HIV, TB, and other communicable diseases in some of the hardest-hit communities in South Africa. Prof. Linda-Gail Bekker, CEO of the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation, discusses how innovation has helped the organization's mission so that nobody is left behind.

 

Bekker and Elzette Rousseau, Ph.D., Co-investigator FASTPrEP, Desmond Tutu Health Foundation, discuss the FASTPrEP program, which seeks to bring HIV prevention to young people in communities we know that HIV is circulating and there is a large burden of disease.  

 

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