Monthly Archives: March 2009

Will capitalism drive the future of global health?

Yesterday the institute co-sponsored (with Kenan-Flagler Business School) a lecture by Steven Phillips, the Medical Director for Global Issues and Projects at ExxonMobil, titled “Saving lives through the power of partnerships.” I think the very notion of business solutions to … Read More

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Notes from Guatemala City

[Pia MacDonald, PhD, is Latin America Projects Manager at the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases] I am here in Guatemala City with my UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health colleagues Amy Nelson (NC Center for Public Health … Read More

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Pediatric heart surgery in Kampala, Uganda

Want to learn about what UNC is doing to help children with heart defects in Uganda?  Watch the video.

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Getting personal: Global Health Connections

This morning I had breakfast with WUNC’s Rose Hoban and had the opportunity to ask her a bit more about her experiences reporting in Malawi and Zambia. In the interest of full disclosure, I had nothing to do with Global … Read More

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Can HIV be cured?

CHAPEL HILL – A group of leading academic and industry scientists has issued a challenge to researchers studying HIV/AIDS: to find a way to effectively purge latent HIV infection and eliminate the need for chronic, suppressive therapy to control the … Read More

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Debriefing from CROI 2009

Faculty from the Division of Infectious Diseases will report from this year’s Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. Friday March 13, 4 p.m.,  Bioinformatics Room 1131, 130 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC. Speakers include Angela Kashuba, Joseph Eron, David … Read More

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The AIDS Course: Changing Lives at UNC & Beyond

For many students at UNC, the “AIDS course” has become much more than just another course on the way to graduation; rather, it is a classroom experience which dramatically changes their personal and professional outlook on the world. “AIDS: Principles, … Read More

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NC Voices: Global Health Connections starts today!

Check it out! You can also listen online from our website.

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