A leader in the global fight against HIV/AIDS has died of COVID 19.

Professor Gita Ramjee, a "towering HIV prevention research leader," has sadly died of coronavirus (Twitter/@AsmitaParashar)

Professor Gita Ramjee, a highly acclaimed scientist who dedicated her life to fighting and preventing HIV, has sadly died of coronavirus.

Ramjee, 64, was a South African researcher internationally renowned for her work expanding disadvantaged women’s access to HIV treatment…