Prof Ruben Sher, one of the first South African doctors to identify the threat of HIV/AIDS, died earlier this week of complications following surgery for a faulty pacemaker. He was 78.
Sher, an immunologist , first found out about HIV during a visit to the US in 1982, when the disease was cutting a swathe through the gay community. At the time HIV was largely unknown in SA , but Sher believed it was already present.
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