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Dr. Purity Ngina
Purity Ngina, at a comparably young age has a Ph.D. in contemporaries and other senior academics has established a firm base at Strathmore Institute of Mathematical Sciences, where she serves the institution in her lecturing and research capacities.

Dr. Purity Ngina’s chant is “shatter the glass ceiling if you can; nothing is impossible; nothing should stop you.” She indeed has shattered the glass ceiling seeing that she came from scoring 235 marks when she sat for her Kenya Certificate of Primary Education for the first time to become a Doctor of Philosophy at 28 years.

Early Life
Dr. Purity Ngina is the last born in a family of two was born and bred in a small village in Kieni East, Nyeri County called Mbiriri. Purity was brought up by a single mother who unfortunately passed on in 2017.

Education
Ms. Ngina scored 235 marks out of the possible 500 in her first stab at the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE). Dr. Ngina would repeat Class Eight a year later [2003] and score 369 marks. She, thereafter, joined Tumutumu Girls High School in Nyeri County, where she sat for her Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) in 2007 and scored a mean grade of B+ (Plus)

Dr. Ngina is an Alumni of Egerton University where she studied a Bachelor of Education Degree (Sciences: Mathematics and Chemistry) between 2009 and 2013. She was awarded a scholarship after graduating with a first class of 75 points. She pursued a master's degree in Applied Mathematics at Egerton University between 2013 and 2015. Where she published three papers during her master's programme and while pursuing her master's degree, Dr. Ngina was a tutorial fellow at Egerton University. She graduated when she was only 25 years old.

Dr. Ngina then enrolled for a Ph.D. programme at Strathmore University in 2016 after landing scholarships with the German Government and the National Research Fund. Her Ph.D. thesis was titled “Mathematical modeling of in-vivo HIV optimal therapy and management”.

Research Work
Her knowledge and obvious prowess in applied mathematics placed her in a position to venture deep into the inner workings of biomathematics where she involved herself the analysis of the dynamics of HIV in her final dissertation. It was “in-modeling". Where they try to model cells to see the interaction and the relationship between body cells, the virus coming in and what can be done to solve it. HIV is a disease the which United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) says 1.6 million Kenyans suffer from.

From her findings, Purity says she is very optimistic about the future in terms of demographic tailor-made administering of HIV control measures. effective research can further improve the reality that is HIV for the better. While commending the strides that have been made by thoughtful painstakingly diligent analysis conducted in the medical field Purity also provides insight on medical innovations like Truvada, a conspicuously large blue tablet that serves as a pre-emptive HIV control measure. According to Purity, it has had a noteworthy impact on slowing down the rate of HIV infections and can have further impacts in Kenya through sensitisation.