Africa: The World-Class Team Leading South Africa's Battle Against COVID-19

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Science, experience at the coalface, commitment and knowledge are the key components that distinguish the government's response to Covid-19. A look back on trailblazers who ensured that human rights prevailed.

Twenty years ago almost to the day, scientists in South Africa were waging war, not against a rogue flu virus, but against those who were bent on denying lifesaving treatment to thousands of desperately ill people who had contracted the human immunodeficiency virus -- HIV.

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