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"Adeeba to become new president of AIDS
Council"
The
Star (www.thestar.com.my)
(14/12/05)
KUALA LUMPUR: Although she knows that she is stepping into “very, very big
shoes” when she takes over as president of the Malaysian AIDS Council, Prof
Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman knows that she can take on the job.
“It is an honour and I hope I can do justice to the seat. I recognise that
there is a lot I can contribute. I was surprised about the appointment
although Marina had ‘warned’ me about it,” she told The Star in an interview
recently.
Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir will step down as council president on Jan 1.
Her position as Malaysian AIDS Foundation chairman, which she has also
vacated, has not been filled yet.
Dr Adeeba, who is head of the infectious diseases unit at the University
Malaya Medical Centre, also heads the Malaysian Harm Reduction Working Group
which advocates evidence-based public health policies on HIV prevention and
treatment and care for drug users.
In addition, she chairs the Therapeutics Research, Education and AIDS
Training in Asia steering committee – a network of clinics, hospitals, and
research institutions working to ensure the safe and effective delivery of
HIV/AIDS treatments in the Asia-Pacific region via research, education and
training programmes.
Dr Adeeba obtained her medical degree from Monash University in Australia
and trained in internal medicine at the Monash Medical Centre.
She then took up sub-speciality training in infectious diseases at the
Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital and Austin Hospital in Melbourne.
She obtained her fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
in 1995.
She returned to Malaysia in 1996 to become a lecturer on general medicine
and infectious diseases in Universiti Malaya and set up one of the first
infectious diseases units in Malaysia.
Dr Adeeba is married to banker Umar Swift and they have two sons – Luqman,
eight, and Karim, six.
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