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Max Essex.

‘When you see death all the time, you go into this mode of increased energy and sharper focus’

Harvard Chan School AIDS pioneer Max Essex shares lessons from the frenzied search for answers about a once-mysterious ailment

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DateMay 21, 2020September 8, 2020

Test kits stacked up.

From the lab to COVID front lines

Technology developed at Harvard provides early boost to Mass. COVID testing

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DateMarch 31, 2020April 1, 2020

Max Essex

Ending HIV transmission by 2030

Harvard professor emeritus Max Essex says it’s possible

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DateMarch 4, 2019March 4, 2019

HIV/AIDS: Promising prevention method

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DateSeptember 5, 2014

Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative Chair Max Essex (right) has joined with a group of collaborators on the Botswana Combination Prevention Project, a massive trial enrolling more than 100,000 people, age 16 to 64, living in 30 villages across the country. Harvard Professor Victor De Gruttola (left) said faculty and students have devoted years to refining statistical methods to aid in design, monitoring, and analysis of the trial.

Viral load as an anti-AIDS hammer

Harvard-backed Botswana project to test treatment-as-prevention on wide scale

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DateAugust 1, 2014March 15, 2019

Namibian prime minister: Inclusivity necessary for peace, development

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DateMarch 24, 2014

A group of HIV researchers and medical ethicists gathered at Harvard School of Public Health for a session titled “Trials of HIV Treatment as Prevention: Ethics and Science” (photo 1). In many cases, antiretroviral treatment has kept viral loads low enough to prevent infection of the HIV-negative partner. Despite those encouraging examples, Max Essex (left, photo 2), who is conducting a trial in 30 communities in Botswana, said little is known about how people in the general community will behave. Essex spoke with Deenan Pillay of of the Wellcome Trust Africa Centre for Health and Population in South Africa.

Toward an AIDS-free generation

Researchers, ethicists wrestle with how to run a large study that could show effectiveness of ‘treatment as prevention’

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DateMarch 10, 2014

In 1926, Harvard Medical School faculty members George Minot (pictured) and William Murphy tackled pernicious anemia, which often killed sufferers within three years. Their study showed that a diet heavy in raw liver improved the sufferers’ condition. Later studies isolated the active ingredient, vitamin B12, that today is given routinely.

Triumphs against smallpox, polio, AIDS

Harvard researchers led pivotal breakthroughs against many diseases

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DateFebruary 2, 2012May 6, 2019

A two-day conference titled “AIDS@30: Engaging to End the Epidemic,” which drew hundreds to the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, worked to engage those who know the ailment best to plot its end. The Dec. 1 discussion brought together Harvard School of Public Health Dean Julio Frenk (right), Harvard Provost Alan Garber (center) and Richard Marlink (left), the program chair and Beal Professor of the Practice of Public Health.

Plotting the demise of AIDS

Scientists, doctors, and activists note progress, calibrate challenges

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DateDecember 2, 2011July 9, 2019

Max Essex (right), chair of the Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative, and his colleagues believe that targeting those most likely to transmit HIV can greatly reduce disease incidence and be cost-effective. HSPH researchers will use the grant to evaluate a unique combination of HIV prevention strategies in Botswana. In 2009, President Drew Faust (left) went to Gaborone, Botswana, to see the research being conducted there.

HIV prevention gets $20M boost

CDC grant enables HSPH to evaluate impact, cost-effectiveness

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DateSeptember 21, 2011April 18, 2019

Roger Shapiro, associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, is the lead author in a study that shows that multidrug therapy nearly eliminates mother-to-child HIV transmission during breast-feeding.

Keeping HIV out of the cradle

Multidrug therapies prevent mother-baby transmission of deadly virus

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DateDecember 2, 2010

Saturday Is for Funerals

<h4>Harvard University Press, May 2010</h4><h5>By Unity Dow and Max Essex</h5>

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DateSeptember 2, 2010

“The Constitution embodies the desire of the American people, like most people, to have things both ways,” David Souter told the Commencement audience. “We want order and security, and we also want liberty. We want not only liberty, but equality as well. These paired desires of ours can clash, and when they do, a court is forced to choose between them.”

Plain language, complex meanings

In Commencement address, retired Justice Souter says Constitution can be a conflicting document

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DateMay 27, 2010

Faust visits Africa

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DateDecember 17, 2009February 6, 2018

Harvard President Drew Faust tours Mochudi Hospital in the village of Mochudi, Botswana.

President Faust in Africa

Tour of clinics shows Harvard's efforts to help Botswana fight AIDS

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DateNovember 25, 2009

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

$18 million to support expanded effort across the University and affiliated hospitals

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DateAugust 14, 2009

South African AIDS policy tied to 330,000 lives lost

Harvard School of Public Health study reveals human cost of policy choices

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DateNovember 26, 2008

AIDS: Finding answers

HSPH partners with Botswana government in epidemic response

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DateMay 15, 2008

AIDS and hope

Dark days of late 1990s have brightened

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DateMay 15, 2008