The award recognizes Lipkin’s decades of significant contributions to public health and the identification, prevention, and treatment of infectious disease outbreaks.
The duo are honored for their contributions to combatting the spread of HIV/AIDS and for transformative public health advocacy and programming throughout Africa and globally.
Over 60 percent of deaths for children under 14 years of age occurred during the first year of life, revealing that infants under one-year-old were most Impacted by the famine.
Public health leaders gathered in Durban, South Africa, to celebrate two decades of accomplishments by CAPRISA (Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa).