The other Filipino in Time's 100 most influential

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By Kim Arveen Patria | Yahoo! Southeast Asia Newsroom â€" Mon, Apr 29, 2013





President Benigno Aquino III was the easiest Filipino to spot in Time Magazine's latest list of the world's 100 most influential people.

But there was one other Filipino in the highly celebrated list, lauded for her work that led to a breakthrough in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) treatment.

Katherine Luzuriaga, who was born to a Filipino father, was among the three female doctors acknowledged for the first "functional cure" in an HIV-infected baby.

Luzuriaga, a professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, headed laboratory investigators on the discovery.

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We Filipinos must be proud of her.