A 24-year-old Nigerian and pharmacist, Yusuf Hassan Wada from Katsina state, has been elected to serve as a representative of the Global Paediatric Adolescent Virus Elimination (PAVE) on the Community Advisory Board (CAB).
The PAVE board is part of the National Institute of Health’s (NIH’s) Martin Delaney Collaboratory (Cross-MDC CAB) for HIV Cure Research.
The Martin Delaney Collaboratories for HIV Cure Research is the flagship NIH program on HIV cure research. The purpose is to foster dynamic, multidisciplinary collaborations between basic, applied, and clinical researchers studying HIV persistence and developing potential curative strategies.
The PAVE MDC representatives will participate in the cross-MDC forum and represent PAVE on the national CAB.
The cross-CAB meets directly with NIH leadership and sets the agenda for the meetings. These representatives will attend the annual meeting in Miami, Florida United States in December (2022) and Bethesda Maryland United States (2023). The term limit for this position is two years.
