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Allen HIV InSite Interview with Susan A. Allen, MD, MPH, DTM&H
Susan A. Allen Related Resources Confronting HIV in Africa
Interview Emory University Faculty Profile Rwanda Zambia HIV
Research Group  In the early 1980s, Dr Susan Allen was a
resident in pathology at the University of California, San
Francisco (UCSF). Her first research work in the field of HIV
was conducted in Africa, and was funded with seed money from
UCSF and the State of California. In 1988, while studying HIV
among pregnant women in Rwanda, Dr Allen found that 14% of her
research subjects did not share the same HIV status as their
partners. This finding prompted further research on couples
counseling and testing and prevention in discordant couples.
Heather Dron, MPH, HIV InSite: How was it to work as a resident
at UCSF in the early 1980s?  Susan A. Allen, MD, MPH: It was in
the early days when we weren't sure how