Through decades of pioneering work on fighting the spread of infectious diseases such as HIV, South African public health power couple Quarraisha and Salim Abdool Karim are credited with saving thousands of lives. On Thursday, they received the Lasker Award for public service, a top recognition for medical research described as the US equivalent of a Nobel prize for science.
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