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THE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Professor James Mcintyre

A true LGBT+ hero, Professor James McIntyre has worked tirelessly throughout his life with health issues affecting the LGBT+ community in South Africa.

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Prof James McIntyre (MBChB, FRCOG) is the founder & CEO of Anova Health Institute, Honorary Professor in the School of Public Health & Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town, Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and Vice-Chair of the US NIH-funded International Maternal Paediatric and Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) Network.

James previously worked for 25 years at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa setting up the first HIV treatment centre and was instrumental in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the country.

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