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PSI: Tell me about your background, your areas of expertise and your professional journey.
TM: I am from and grew up in Zimbabwe. I went to Smith College in Massachusetts before going to Harvard Medical School, all at a time when the HIV epidemic was starting to have a significant impact globally and even more so here in Zimbabwe. Halfway through medical school, and after experiencing a family loss, I decided that I wanted to work on fixing the problem. I was determined that I was going to make a vaccine for HIV and that it would end the epidemic.
Globally, over two-thirds of new HIV infections are reported among key populations – men who have sex with men, transgender people, sex workers, people.