Meet Dr. Nyaradzo Mgodi, Clinical Researcher & Multipurpose Prevention Technologies Champion

Dr. Nyaradzo?Mgodi is a?medical doctor, clinical pathologist and clinical trialist at the University of Zimbabwe, where she researches the prevention and treatment of HIV and other STIs. She also helps to advance multipurpose prevention technologies (MPTs)—safe, effective, accessible and acceptable tools that combine prevention of at least two sexual and reproductive health risks.

In 2022,?Dr. Mgodi was featured?in?Word on the Street, an innovative storytelling tool created in part by PHI's CAMI Health. It?shares the reproductive health experiences and personal stories from?forty-nine young women and key influencers?including grandmothers, male partners and technical experts in South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe—three countries where young women experience some of the highest rates of?HIV, other STIs and unintended pregnancy in the world.?

Doctors and researchers who come from the communities they serve play an important role?in identifying barriers and finding solutions, acting as trusted experts and messengers on reproductive health. "Our interventions need to be culturally acceptable?as well as conforming to the science," says?Dr. Mgodi.

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Dr. Mgodi is a clinical researcher and champion for better reproductive health technologies, and she is?also a critical part?of?public health. Just like Dr. Mgodi,?we all have a role to play in keeping each other healthy: Health care providers, schools, community-based organizations, local health departments and more, including leaders like you.

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