Linda-Gail Bekker

**Linda-Gail Bekker** MBChB, DTMH, DCH, FCP (SA) bụ Prọfesọ nke Medicine na onye isi ọrụ nke Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation. Ọ bụkwa onye isi ụlọ ọrụ Desmund Tutu HIV Center na Mahadum Cape Town. Ọ bụ onye isi ala gara aga nke International AIDS Society (2016-18).

## Mbido ndụ na agụmakwụkwọ
A mụrụ Bekker na Zimbabwe .  Ọ gụrụ ọgwụ na Mahadum nke Cape Town .  O bu n'obi ịghọ onye dibia bekee, ma mechaa ntụgharị ụlọ ọgwụ na KwaZulu-Natal wee nwee mmasị na nyocha HIV na TB. Ọ hụrụ ndị na-eto eto na-anwụ site na HIV / AIDS ma nwee nkụda mmụọ na ọ pụghị inyere ha aka. Ọ bụ John E. Fogarty International Center kwadoro Ph.D. ya. Ọ rụrụ ọrụ na Mahadum Rockefeller na immunology. Onye ndụmọdụ doctoral ya bụ Gilla Kaplan ma ya na ya na-arụkọ ọrụ taa.

## Nnyocha na ọrụ
N'afọ 2009, o ritere Ihe nrite Royal Society Pfizer Award maka nchọpụta ya gbasara ọrịa ụkwara nta. Ego ahụ kwadoro nyocha ya na Nyanga Primary Health Clinic na Cape Town.  Bekker nwere mmasị na itinye aka na obodo na mmemme agụmakwụkwọ ndị ọgbọ na-eduzi. Ọrụ obodo ya na-achọ imeri ihere metụtara HIV na ụkwara nta.Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation, ebe Bekker na-eje ozi dị ka onye isi ọrụ, na-akwado ọdịmma nke ndị mmadụ na obodo ndị kasị daa ogbenye na South Africa. Di ya, Robin Wood, na-eje ozi dị ka onye nduzi na onye isi oche.  Ọ mepụtara ụgbọ ala ahụike mkpanaka, nke a maara dị ka Tutu tester, nke na-enye nyocha maka ịtụrụ ime, ọbara mgbali elu, ọrịa shuga, HIV / AIDS, TB na oke ibu.. Ọ bụ onye nduzi nke Desmund Tutu HIV Centre na Mahadum nke Cape Town, ebe ọ na-ejikọta ọrụ kachasị mma na ihe akaebe gbasara ọgwụgwọ na mgbochi nke ndị na-eto eto na ikpo okwu siri ike. Ụlọ ọrụ ahụ na-enweta ego site na National Institutes of Health .  Ọ mepụtara Nhọrọ maka Ụzọ Mgbochi Ndị Ntorobịa na South Africa (CHAMPS); nke na-ama aka omume ụmụ okorobịa na ibi úgwù, na-agba ụmụ agbọghọ ume ka ha na-eji mgbochi afọ ime ma nyochaa Pre-exposure prophylaxis. Ọ rụkwara ọrụ na Nnyocha Ịmụ ime na HIV / AIDS Seeking Equitable (PHASES) nke National Institutes of Health kwadoro. Ọ na-amụ banyere ọgwụgwọ antiretroviral.   Ọ na-enwe obi ụtọ maka nyocha onwe onye nke HIV.

N'afọ 2016, a họpụtara ya ka ọ bụrụ onye isi oche nke International AIDS Society .  O nyere okwu mmeghe na International AIDS Society Conference na Paris, ebe o kwuru banyere nhọrọ mgbochi ọhụrụ dị ka Pre-exposure prophylaxis. N'afọ 2018, a họpụtara ya ka ọ bụrụ onye otu International AIDS Vaccine Initiative .  Ọ na-enwe nchegbu banyere Donald Trump na-emebi nzaghachi nje HIV zuru ụwa ọnụ. Ọ bụ onye isi okwu na World AIDS Day. 

O nyere aka na The Conversation. Bekker na-enwe mmasị ise ihe ma jiri ihe nkiri n'okporo ámá rụọ ọrụ obodo ya.

Bekker na-eje ozi dị ka onye ndụmọdụ na President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. 

Na 2024 International AIDS Conference na Munich, Prọfesọ Bekker gosipụtara nsonaazụ sitere na PURPOSE-1 ọmụmụ banyere mgbochi HIV site na iji lenacapavir injectable ugboro abụọ kwa afọ nke gosipụtara ịgba ọgwụ mgbochi ugboro abụọ kwa afọ na-echebe ụmụ nwanyị kpamkpam pụọ na nje HIV. Ọ dịghị onye sonyere na-anata ọrịa HIV ugboro abụọ n'afọ na akụkọ The New England Journal of Medicine.

## COVID-19
Bekker bụ onye nyocha na-eduzi, yana Glenda Gray, nke ikpe Sisonke nke zubere inye ndị ọrụ nlekọta ahụike na South Africa ohere ịnweta ọgwụ mgbochi COVID. Nzọụkwụ 3b na-emeghe akara ahụike na-aga site na 17 Febụwarị 2021  ruo 15 Mee 2021,  na 478 733 doses nyere ndị ọrụ ahụike. Nnyocha ahụ nwalere ịdị irè nke ọgwụ mgbochi Jansen (J&J) mgbe a na-enye ya n'ụzọ buru ibu n'okpuru ọnọdụ South Africa.

## Ihe odide