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CAPRISA refutes latest disinformation video
15 August 2025
CAPRISA urges members of the public to verify all health claims, to refrain from sharing misinformation and to report it as fake news immediately.

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Virchow Prize 2025 Awarded to Global Health Leaders Quarraisha Abdool Karim and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
14 July 2025
Quarraisha Abdool Karim and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta have been jointly awarded the Virchow Prize 2025, in recognition of their pioneering, lifelong leadership in advancing maternal, newborn, and child health equity through community-centred, evidence-based research, in particular supporting some of the world’s most vulnerable people.

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Report and stop fake news
24 June 2025
CAPRISA wishes to distance itself from the latest incident of misinformation and fake news wherein Professor Salim Abdool Karim, the Director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), is purported to be spreading inaccurate information around COVID-19 vaccines and its related side effects.

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Communicating science for the advancement of all: Professor Salim S Abdool Karim receives the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Prize
29 May 2025

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Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim FRS elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society
20 May 2025
“Creating a platform for emerging young scientists in Africa - that's our continent’s treasure chest.” Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim elected as a Fellow to the Royal Society

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12th Annual Chanchlani Global Health Research Award and Lecture at McMaster University
23 April 2025
The Chanchlani Global Health Research Award was created by the Chanchlani Family and McMaster University in Canada in 2012. It recognises leading scholars in the area of Global Health.

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