Monthly Archives: July 2012

In D.C., honoring black women living with HIV/AIDS

Posted on July 30, 2012 by lchensvold

Last Saturday, one day before the start of the XIX International AIDS Conference, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the National Black Women’s HIV/AIDS Network held a meeting and community gathering for black women living with HIV/AIDS.  Among the guests were … Read More

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AIDS2012 Round-up – Tuesday and Wednesday

Posted on July 26, 2012 by lchensvold

Can we afford to treat everyone? Some solutions from outside the box At Tuesday’s plenary, Bernhard Schwartländer, director of the  Evidence, Strategy and Results Department at UNAIDS, offered some creative, if provocative (to some) ideas for funding global comprehensive antiretroviral … Read More

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Photo of the day: The poster exhibition at AIDS 2012

Posted on July 25, 2012 by lchensvold

On Wednesday at the poster exhibition, Charlie van der Horst explains his poster, “Morbidity and mortality among HIV-1-exposed uninfected infants enrolled in the Breastfeeding, Antiretrovirals and Nutrition (BAN) trial in Malawi.” View the complete abstract.

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Too many stories to tell: report from the International AIDS Conference

Posted on July 23, 2012 by lchensvold

You know what I would not want to be this week? A journalist covering the XIX International AIDS Conference. The conference is massive; it is estimated that nearly 30,000 people will be in attendance; the program book runs some 440 … Read More

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UNC, Malawi’s president celebrate opening of new fistula unit

Posted on July 21, 2012 by lchensvold

Bwaila District Hospital has a new fistula center, including a new major operating theater and a 28-bed inpatient unit.   On July 19 the new fistula unit at Bwaila District Hospital in Lilongwe officially opened.  Joining UNC’s Jeff Wilkinson was … Read More

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Lending a (big) hand in Zambia for women’s health

Posted on July 13, 2012 by lchensvold

One of UNC’s newest faculty members, Groesbeck Parham, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of the Cervical Cancer Prevention Program at CIDRZ, doesn’t mess around when looking for a helping hand.  While working on renovations at Ngungu Health … Read More

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Star struck in Malawi

Posted on July 13, 2012 by lchensvold

Katie Donohue, a master’s student in maternal and child health, is working as a summer fellow in Malawi with CARE. She recently had the chance to meet New York Times columnist and author of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into … Read More

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Catching up with UNC Global Women’s Health – report from Malawi

Posted on July 9, 2012 by lchensvold

[This post was sent in by Dr. John Thorp, Professor and Director of Women's Primary Healthcare in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UNC] This has been an exciting and informative trip to Malawi. I have worked with Jeff Wilkinson, … Read More

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