By anupamsinghal

Anupam Singhal is a graduate student at the University of British Columbia who lives, eats, and breathes science. Sometimes he dreams that someone will prove that science is a pointless endeavour, giving Anupam a lot more free time.

HELP, I NEED A VACCINE! (OR H.I.V. FOR SHORT)

Andrina Simengwa, like any ordinary 23-year old basketball fan, loves to watch Vince Carter soar into the air, rotate 360ยบ, and thunderously dunk a basketball into the hoop. Andrina, however, is in fact an extraordinary individual who leads an anything but ordinary life. She resides in the town of Lilongwe in the sub-Saharan African nation of Malawi, and is presently employed by the United Nations Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (herein referred to simply as the Global Fund). As an advocate with the Global Fund, she recently spent a few months in Canada promoting youth awareness about…

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