Nozipho Mlotshwa

Nozipho Mlotshwa is a 32-year-old lab technician working in the Antiviral Gene Therapy Research Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was involved in promising research on a potential HIV vaccine that had shown good results in pre-clinical tests, but her work came to an abrupt halt due to a decision by the U.S. government to cut funding for international development assistance.