Tag: Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative

  • Health

    In Africa, success against AIDS

    AIDS researchers gathered at the Harvard School of Public Health to mark 10 years of work under a landmark federal anti-AIDS program that has led to significant progress against the epidemic.

    3–5 minutes
  • Health

    HIV prevention gets $20M boost

    A new four-year, $20 million grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will enable Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers to evaluate the impact and cost-effectiveness of a unique combination of HIV prevention strategies in Botswana.

    3–4 minutes
  • Health

    Keeping HIV out of the cradle

    A Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative trial that gave HIV-positive mothers in Botswana antiretroviral drugs during the months after birth showed a dramatic reduction in the transmission of the virus from mothers to breast-fed babies.

    4–5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Faust hosts African students

    Harvard President Drew Faust hosts students from African countries to solicit their input and advice in advance of her November trip to South Africa and Botswana.

    3–4 minutes
  • Health

    NIH renews Harvard Center for AIDS Research grant for another five years

    The National Institutes of Health has renewed for five years – and $18.1 million – the funding for the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research (Harvard CFAR). Harvard is one of only 20 NIH CFAR sites in the U.S. and first received the designation in 2004. The award, under the umbrella of the Harvard Initiative…

    3–5 minutes
  • Health

    South African AIDS policy tied to 330,000 lives lost

    More than 330,000 lives were lost to HIV/AIDS in South Africa from 2000 and 2005 because a feasible and timely antiretroviral (ARV) treatment program was not implemented, assert researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) in a study published by the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS). In addition, an estimated 35,000…

    5–7 minutes
  • Health

    Trying to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV

    Harvard AIDS Institute researchers in Botswana are trying to help HIV-infected mothers and their infants. In the rural area of Molepolole, where AIDS Institute researcher Shahin Lockman lives and works, about two thirds of pregnant women consent to HIV testing. Lockman says that a little more than half of HIV-infected women choose to participate in…

    1–2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Harvard faculty press aggressive agenda for AIDS fight in Africa

    A statement signed by more than 100 Harvard faculty members calls upon wealthy countries, in partnership with poor countries, to establish a global trust fund to make life-prolonging antiretroviral therapy available in the areas of the world hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic. The statement is the first of its kind to outline a comprehensive…

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