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Linda-Gail Bekker

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Linda-Gail Bekker

Professor Linda-Gail Bekker is the director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the University of Cape Town. She is a past president of the International Aids Society.

The Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/Aids says the crisis is not an isolated supply-chain issue but a ‘systemic failure’ that demands urgent government intervention
COVID 19

People living with HIV are at high risk of non-communicable diseases

Keeping them healthy necessitates an revolution in health systems and how they are financed, especially in poorer communities

  • Linda-Gail Bekker
  • Katie Dain
6 min read
HIV PREVENTION STRATEGY

#AIDS2016: New science may put the power to prevent HIV in women’s hands

Being able to take a pill discreetly, as women have done with contraceptives since the 1950s, is an HIV prevention revolution.

  • Linda-Gail Bekker
5 min read
STOP TB PARTNERSHIP

Turning the tide against TB: Treatment alone won’t work

The global TB rate has been falling by 1.5% per year – far slower than the 10% yearly declines needed to end TB within twenty years.

  • Linda-Gail Bekker
5 min read