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Monthly Archives: October 2009
The hope for an AIDS vaccine: an update
October 2009 By Myron S. Cohen, MD, Director of the Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases In 2000 the United Nations Security Council made history when, for the first time, it took on a health issue: HIV/AIDS. AIDS kills … Read More
UNC awarded $2.5 million from NIH to establish collaborative STD research center
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been awarded $2.5 million from the National Institutes of Health to establish a new cooperative research center for studies of sexually transmitted infections. The new Southeastern STI Cooperative Research Center will … Read More
UNC researcher awarded grant for anti-diarrhea vaccine study in Nicaragua
A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researcher has been awarded a four-year, $507,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Fogarty International Center to study the effectiveness of rotavirus vaccines in the Central American nation of Nicaragua.
UNC receives nearly $2.2 million to study nutritional supplements to protect HIV-positive mothers and their infants in Africa
Do nutritional supplements, fortified with micronutrients and essential fats, protect the health of HIV-positive women and their infants after weaning? Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) will analyze data from a study in the African … Read More
UNC researcher: Racial disparities in HIV infection rate are ‘indictment’ of U.S. response to epidemic
UNC’s Dr. Adaora A. Adimora and her fellow researchers examine factors responsible for the stark racial disparities in HIV infection in the U.S. and the now concentrated epidemic among African Americans. Continuing racial disparities in the HIV infection rate are … Read More
Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute presenting at APHA annual meeting
October 5, 2009 — The Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute’s (CBI) faculty and students will be presenting many sessions at the American Public Health Association (APHA) meeting in Philadelphia November 7-11, 2009. Miriam Labbok, MD, MPH, who directs CGBI, will be … Read More
Global health policy expert Benjamin Mason Meier joins UNC faculty
By Lisa Chensvold When Ben Meier was an undergraduate biochemistry major at Cornell University, he realized something: while the solutions to global health problems were being advanced by science—applying biotechnology to revolutionize health and nutrition—the implementation of those solutions was … Read More
UNC in Nicaragua: a forward-looking program that will “hold us accountable”
By Kim Gazella The Nicaraguan mother was frantic, her baby gasping for breath. They had been at the clinic the day before, but the antibiotics didn’t seem to be working. The clinic, staffed by UNC second-year medical student Andrew Chen … Read More