SA is at the epicentre of the global HIV/Aids epidemic, and its scientists are at the very heart of the quest to stop it in its tracks SA is at the epicentre of the global HIV/Aids epidemic, and its scientists are at the very heart of the quest to stop it in its tracks.No other high-burden country has the same scientific capacity, placing SA in a unique position to contribute to game-changing research, says Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy & Infectious Diseases at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).“SA is truly unique in this respect. There are some other countries in Southern and Central Africa that we have good collaborations with — Botswana, Kenya and Uganda — but none of them is at the level of SA. They are just not in the same league,” he says.Estimates of the number of people living with HIV in SA range from government’s low of 6.4m to the high of 8m given by the Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation, an independent global health resear...

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