Professor Helen Rees: COVID-19 and South Africa

Sizwe caught up with renowned medical expert Professor Helen Rees to discuss COVID-19, the recent decision to extend the South African lockdown, and the relation between COVID and HIV.

Professor Helen Rees is Executive Director of the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg where she is also a Personal Professor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Co-Director of the Wits African Local Initiative for Vaccinology Expertise (ALIVE). She is an Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the Faculty of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, an Honorary Fellow at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University, and an alumna of Harvard Business School. Helen is internationally renowned for her research and policy work in HIV, vaccines, reproductive health and drug regulation.

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