Dr Zarifa Aliyeva was born on the 28 of April 1923, in Nakhchyvan,Azerbaijan. Her dad Aziz Mammadkerim and mom Leila Jabbar Abbasova were both born in Iravan.
Dr Zarifa Aliviyea enrolled in the state medical universityy of Azerbaijan in 1942 and graduated in 1947 with excellant marks.
At that time trachoma ( is an infectious eye disease,) was a big problem in Azerbhaijan.This desire took her to Moscow City and she acquired specialization of ophthalmologist after successfully completing the 2-year advanced training course at the All-Union Central Doctors Improvement Institute.
After completing here traing as specialist in opthalmology she returned to Azerbhaijan in 1942. She began working in reseauch at Azerbaijan Eye Diseases Research Institute. n 1950 she entered the post graduate course, continued her researches.
Engaged with development of medical and preventive actions against various eye diseases Zarifa Aliyeva dedicated the first phase of her scientific activity to treatment of infectious disease trachoma. Thus, the life itself determined the topic of first researches of Zarifa Aliyeva.
Zarifa Aliyeva dedicated her research to treatment of trachoma, more exactly to the study of more effective means in cure and aggravation of trachoma, use of synthomycin, an antibiotic that was new at the time, which had an antichlamydial activity except wide antibacterial spectrums. She was not pleased of working at the institute only. She used to visit cities and districts of the republic, study reasons of the disease and implement medical and preventive actions in the hotbeds of the disease. The great scientist had special services in field of prevention of trachoma spread in children homes. Results of these studies formed the base of Ph.D. thesis ‘Treatment of trachoma with synthomycin along with other medical methods’ Z.Aliyeva successfully defended in 1960. The method of treatment proposed by Z.Aliyeva, who was specialized and received the degree of candidate of sciences in this field, was applied all over the republic and saved the country of this disease. Therefore, abolition of trachoma in Azerbaijan as social disease is connected to the name of Zarifa Aliyeva.After summarizing researches on study and cure of trachoma Z.Aliyeva commenced to researches in other necessary directions of ophthalmology. She carried out several studies on glaucoma. Coverage of researches on results of those studies on the press helped doctors in field of clinical eye diseases to improve their knowledge.
