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43 stories tagged ‘HIV/AIDS’
Esther Mwaikambo is used to starting small. Until her teaching hospital was started in 1997, there was only one medical school in Tanzania, graduating 25 to 40 doctors annually.
Results of AIDS vaccine trial ‘weak’ in second analysis
In an editorial accompanying the journal paper, Dr. Raphael Dolin of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston said the overall findings were nonetheless "of potentially great importance to the field of HIV research" because they might yield information about the kinds of immune responses necessary to provide protection against the virus….
Session examines harm done by those who, fueled by the Internet and selective evidence, say AIDS is not caused by the HIV virus.
HSPH professor Stephen Lagakos dies at 63
Stephen Lagakos, an international leader in biostatistics and AIDS research and professor of biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), died in an auto collision on Monday, October 12, 2009 in Peterborough, N.H. He was 63 years old.
A new exhibit at the Carpenter Center titled "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993" examines the history of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power through a series of powerful graphics created by various artist collectives that were part of the influential group.
Stephen Lagakos, talented biostatistician with a common touch
“His seminal contributions to the field of AIDS research helped provide crucial statistical foundations upon which we could better combat this terrible disease,’’ Julio Frenk, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, said in a statement issued yesterday.
Pulling up service by the roots
Weissman fellow spends 10 weeks in South Africa empowering youth through soccer and education.
Social pressure keeps African AIDS patients in treatment
One of the surprises of the global AIDS epidemic has been the high level of adherence to antiretroviral drug treatment in sub-Saharan Africa.
Hometown girl makes (and does) good
Marianna Tu didn’t intend to go to college in her hometown. That town just happened to be Cambridge, Mass., and the college was Harvard.
Forstein honored with the Art of Healing Award
Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), a Harvard-affiliated public health care system, has recently presentedMarshall Forstein, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, with its second annual Art of Healing Award. The award recognizes an individual for exemplary leadership, advocacy, and innovation in healing.
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