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In answer to a friend’s query, I confirmed that Dr. RICHARD BESSER, 56, the chief medical correspondent for ABC News, is Jewish. He formerly was acting director of the American Centers for Disease Control.
Besser grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, and graduated from Princeton High School in 1977. He is of Jewish descent. His brother, Mitch, is married to singer Annie Lennox.
Jul 10, 2018 · When he discovered that many women who tested positive for HIV were too frightened to return to a clinic for treatment, Mitch founded mothers2mothers in 2001 to provide peer-to-peer education and support to help women access lifesaving PMTCT services.
Sep 19, 2013 · Preventing the transmission of HIV from mother to child could be the first step to an Aids-free generation, say singer Annie Lennox and husband Mitch Besser.
Apr 2, 2011 · Mitch Besser—helping mothers with HIV become mentors. Mitch Besser first came face to face with the struggle against HIV/AIDS back in 1992, when he was working in a midwifery programme for underprivileged women in San Diego, CA, USA, and one of his friends, a fellow doctor, died from the disease.
- Samuel Loewenberg
- 2011
Mitch Besser fi rst came face to face with the struggle against HIV/AIDS back in 1992, when he was working in a midwifery programme for underprivileged women in San Diego, CA, USA, and one of his friends, a fellow doctor, died from the disease. Determined to do something about it, Besser, a Harvard-trained obstetrician and gynaecologist,
Dec 14, 2023 · Dr Besser had a huge impact in elevating the esteem of UCT through his charitable and public health service on prevention of mother to child HIV transmission, which commenced while he was still affiliated with the university.
