Odette Ferreira

Odette Ferreira
Born
Maria Odette Santos Ferreira

(1925-06-04)4 June 1925
Lisbon, Portugal
Died7 October 2018(2018-10-07) (aged 93)
Lisbon, Portugal
OccupationMicrobiologist
Known forHIV/AIDS researcher who contributed to identification of HIV-2 virus and headed a Portuguese Government programme to reduce the incidence of AIDS

Maria Odette Santos Ferreira (4 June 1925 – 7 October 2018) was a Portuguese professor of microbiology who played an important role in research on HIV, through the identification of the HIV-2 virus in association with the Pasteur Institute of Paris. She was also the coordinator of the Portuguese programme to fight AIDS, overseeing the "Say no to a second-hand syringe" project, which resulted in the collection and exchange by pharmacies of 43 million used syringes between 1993 and 2008.

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