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  Webinar: Global Threats, Local Actions

  “We at the Institute for Global Health and infectious diseases are a large community of multi-disciplinary investigators,” said Sonia Napravnik, PhD, in her webinar welcome message during University Research Week. “And essentially, we all focus on improving health globally and locally, here in North Carolina and across the US.” “Our focus is really on research, … Read more

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  Undetected: The Lung Cancer Epidemic in HIV Communities

  As people with HIV live longer lives with anti-retroviral therapy, lung cancer has emerged as a leading cause of death. This is primarily because people with HIV are twice as likely to smoke, and they face higher cancer risks at younger ages. Immunosuppression and inflammatory processes also play a role. Subhashini Sellers, MD, MSCR, an … Read more

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  Changes in the Prevalence of Non-AIDS Conditions Among Hospitalized Persons With (HIV) in the United States and Canada, 2008–2018

  Hospitalization causes among persons with HIV (PWH) have shifted to non-AIDS conditions, but the complete disease profile of hospitalized PWH has not been well described. To inform hospitalization and readmission prevention efforts, Thibaut Davy-Mendez, PhD, MSPH, Sonia Napravnik, PhD, and Joseph J. Eron, MD, examined non-AIDS disease prevalence among PWH hospitalized in 4 US cohorts and 1 Canadian … Read more

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  Cardiometabolic Disease Among Frailty Phenotype Clusters in Adults Aging with HIV

  Age-related morbidity, including frailty and cardiometabolic disease, has become increasingly prevalent among people living with HIV (PWH), and each frailty characteristic may, independently and synergistically, play a role in cardiometabolic disease. Sonia Napravnik, PhD, conducted a cross-sectional analysis within a longitudinal clinical cohort to evaluate the prevalence of unique frailty clusters and the prevalence ratios … Read more

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