Simani Gaseitsiwe

Simani Gaseitsiwe is a Research Associate at the Botswana–Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership (BHP), Gaborone, Botswana. His research focuses on infection biology and the interaction between pathogens and the human host, with a primary emphasis on HIV. He studies HIV-1 subtype C diversity and investigates how the virus responds to antiretroviral therapy, including the emergence of drug resistance mutations. This work contributes to improving HIV treatment optimisation and monitoring of treatment outcomes in subtype C–predominant settings. His broader research interests include hepatitis B virus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), and SARS-CoV-2, with a focus on their molecular epidemiology in Botswana and their interactions with HIV.