#PODCAST 20 years of research in the making - CAPRISA's Kogie Naidoo discusses winning the Outstanding Female Scientist Prize in France #sabcnews

By Newsbreak Senior Producer Taresh Harreeparshad - Female scientists in Africa can stand toe-to-toe with their male counterparts in the rest of the world in generating the quality of science that can be game-changing. That's the view of world-renowned scientist Dr. Kogie Naidoo after she just won the Outstanding Female Scientist Prize from European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership in France. This comes after 20 years of groundbreaking research in the field of HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis. Dr. Naidoo is Head of the TB-HIV Treatment Research Programme at the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa- or CAPRISA. She says winning this award is humbling- because it is work specifically targeted at making the lives of local communities better...