activist

Doctors Laher and Ashford support health activism around the reduction of prices for cytomegalovirus medications

medical doctor

Dr Fatima Laher has considerable experience in evidence-based HIV medicine, having already helped over 2000 HIV-positive men, women and children on antiretroviral therapy. Her proficiency extends to niche expertise in antiretroviral therapy, drug resistance and salvage therapies, pregnancy and safe conception, adolescence, as well as skill in the management of co-morbidities. 

researcher

Five years working in strategic and clinical drug trials has placed Dr Fatima Laher at the forefront of emerging HIV treatment science. She frequently publishes academic papers, conference abstracts and articles that are recognized as significant to the field both nationally and internationally. At the Perinatal HIV Research Unit, she now leads the Soweto clinical research site of the international HIV Vaccines Trials Network in the search for a vaccine against HIV and related illnesses.

brief web highlights

| 2011 | The international journal AIDS and Behavior publishes a paper by Dr Laher and her colleagues entitled Conversations with mothers: Exploring reasons for prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) failures in the era of programmatic scale-up in Soweto, South Africa.

| 2010 | Dr Laher co-authors the textbook chapter The Management of Pain in Adults and Children Living with HIV/AIDS in the book Guide to pain management in low-resource settings published by the International Association for the Study of Pain

| 2009 | Dr Laher's work is cited in the World Health Organisation safety review on efavirenz

| physical | Suite 12, Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, 21 Eton Road, Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa

| telephone | 011 482 8297/8 

| e-mail | fatimav3@gmail.com

writer

Read Dr Laher’s regular HIV Forum column in the doctors’ newspaper, The Medical Chronicle.

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DR FATIMA LAHER

MBBCH (WITS) Dip HIV Man (SA)

> medical doctor at the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre

> director of vaccines research at the Perinatal HIV Research Unit

> joint staff member of the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School

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