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Etienne Karita is a Rwandan scientist who has been researching HIV in Rwanda since before the Rwandan genocide in 1994. He has held numerous leadership positions in different organizations that are working to control HIV in Rwanda. Some of his work is focused on preventing mother to child transmission of HIV and in collaboration with Projet San Francisco, he is has studied HIV in discordant couples.

Education
Karita earned his MD from the National University of Rwanda in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. In 1995, he completed his master in molecular biology at the University of Brussels in Belgium, studying with Peter Piot, and then a master of public health in epidemiology at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. He is currently affiliated with Emory University as the country director for Projet San Francisco in Rwanda.

Earlier Research on HIV
Karita has co-authored on numerous research papers that focus on HIV infection and transmission in Rwanda. His work with Projet San Francisco, also called the Rwandan Zambia HIV Research Group (RZHRG), focuses on providing counseling and testing for discordant couples. Projet San Francisco was founded in Kigali in 1986, but when the Rwandan genocide began in 1994, many of the researchers relocated and began a clinic in Lusaka, Zambia. When Karita returned to Rwanda after the genocide, he helped rebuild a research center and was named the head of Rwanda's National AIDS Control Program. The Rwandan genocide was accompanied by the rape of thousands of women and the the spread of HIV to them. He was also the first Technical Advisor in Rwanda for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF), which is an organization aiming to end AIDS among children. In 2019, EGPAF ended their partnership with the Ministry of Health in Rwanda because of the reduction of mother to child transmission in the country.

Recent Work
Karita has been the principal investigator for HIV vaccination clinical trials, as well as the Ebola vaccination campaign. In 2017, he was one of the recipients for the SANTHE grants for his research on HIV among high-risk populations. He is also on the Consortium Steering Committee and a site Principal Investigator for SANTHE. In 2019, Karita was co-chair of the scientific programme committee at the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) which was held in Kigali that year.