SA s Abdool Karim wins top award for standing up for science during COVID-19 Along with Antony Fauci, South African epidemiologist Salim Abdool Karim has won the prestigious John Maddox Prize 2020 for going beyond the line of duty . Infectious disease specialist Professor Salim Abdool Karim. Picture: @UKZN/Twitter.
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JOHANNESBURG - South African epidemiologist Salim Abdool Karim has been announced as the joint winner of the John Maddox Prize for 2020.
Along with Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the United States, Karim was on Monday recognised for going beyond the line of duty as government advisors on health . Karim is advising the government on its COVID-19 response.