Monthly Archives: August 2012

Is there a surgeon in the country?

In an opinion piece this week in The New York Times, journalist Sarika Bansal writes about the lack of surgical care in sub-Saharan Africa. She cites some staggering statistics, among them a conservative estimate that 56 million people in sub-Saharan … Read More

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Photo of the Day: Dog Days of Summer Edition

This comes courtesy of Kumi Smith, a PhD student in epidemiology at UNC. Kumi was in China last winter for two months of dissertation research. As she tells it, “The trip to Henan was not without some adventures, including rooting … Read More

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Going underground: punitive policies and high risk behavior (report from AIDS 2012)

[This post was written by Catherine Grodensky, MPH.  Catherine is manager of the  Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Core at the UNC Center for AIDS Research] Critical drivers of the HIV epidemic are social and structural factors such as poverty, stigma, … Read More

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