Pride Chigwedere
Zimbabwean AIDS researcher
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Pride Chigwedere's Degrees
- Bachelors Microbiology University of Zimbabwe
- Masters Immunology University of Zimbabwe
- PhD Virology University of Zimbabwe
Why Is Pride Chigwedere Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Pride Chigwedere , a Zimbabwean national, is a Harvard trained physician-scientist working in global health. He is most notable for leading a team of Harvard researchers who demonstrated that South African President Thabo Mbeki's AIDS policies led to more than 300 000 deaths. While South Africa's policies were condemned by many, Chigwedere's contribution was in developing and applying methods to quantify the impact of the policies thus demonstrating the calamitous consequences of AIDS denialism. Generalized, he developed an approach for evaluating public health practice and highlighted the need to develop a framework for accountability in public health. Drawing from the analogy with medicine, he has proposed the concept of public health malpractice to capture negligence that causes harm as a useful first step towards accountability in public health. A response to Chigwedere's work by AIDS denialists led by Peter Duesberg was initially published by the non-peer-reviewed journal Medical Hypotheses followed by a retraction because of poor quality of data, undeclared conflicts of interest, and potential effects on global health.
Pride Chigwedere's Published Works
Published Works
- Estimating the lost benefits of antiretroviral drug use in South Africa. (2008) (313)
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Subtype C Molecular Phylogeny: Consensus Sequence for an AIDS Vaccine Design? (2002) (172)
- Identification of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Subtype C Gag-, Tat-, Rev-, and Nef-Specific Elispot-Based Cytotoxic T-Lymphocyte Responses for AIDS Vaccine Design (2001) (121)
- Efficacy of antiretroviral drugs in reducing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Africa: a meta-analysis of published clinical trials. (2008) (46)
- Identification of most frequent HLA class I antigen specificities in Botswana: relevance for HIV vaccine design. (2001) (45)
- AIDS Denialism and Public Health Practice (2010) (44)
- Design ? Consensus Sequence for an AIDS Vaccine Subtype C Molecular Phylogeny : Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (2002) (0)
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