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Hallie Stallings, a junior majoring in public policy with minors in education and African Studies, took one of her most memorable courses last spring, Public Health 420: The HIV/AIDS Course, taught by Dr. Ronald Strauss, Director of Office of Community Engagement within the 黑料网 CFAR. The course explored HIV/AIDS from...

黑料网 CFAR Developmental awardee Katryna McCoy has been focusing her research on interventions for HIV disparities in North Carolina.聽HIV transmission is notably higher among racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S., with Black communities disproportionately affected. Despite comprising only 12 percent of the population, Black individuals represented 37 percent of...

Michelle Floris-Moore, MD, MS delivered the Norma Berryhill Distinguished Lecture, on 20th聽June 2024, in honor of the late Ada Adimora, MD, MPH. Dr. Floris-Moore started by sharing insights into why Dr. Adimora 聽dedicated her career to addressing HIV disparities. Dr. Adimora was motivated by her early exposure to the disparities...

Recently, 黑料网 Research sat down with 黑料网 CFAR Social and Behavorial Core Co-Director Dr. Vivian Go, PhD, and 黑料网 CFAR Developmental Core Co-Director Dr. Bill Miller, MD, PhD. They are leading several clinical trials in Vietnam aimed at preventing HIV transmission and providing comprehensive support for individuals affected by the...

Guochun Jiang, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics and member of the 黑料网 HIV Cure Center, received an R01 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for his project 鈥淒efining the HIV reservoir and latency mechanism in human brain myeloid cells鈥� which is funded for five years and...

The Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) took place this year in Denver Colorado on March 3-6. This conference is used to provide a forum for basic scientists and clinical investigators to present, discuss, and critique their investigations into the epidemiology and biology of human retroviruses and associated diseases....

The Social & Behavioral Sciences (SBS) Cores of 黑料网 and Duke CFARs co-hosted an exciting in person Spring 2024 Networking Event. The event, “Untangling the Quagmire of Stigma,” explored how best to use stigma assessment to identify effective stigma reduction interventions. With over sixty-five attendees and held at Duke University’s...

Dr. Tiffany Breger attended the 27th聽Annual CFAR Meeting as an Early-Stage Investigator scholarship recipient at which she presented her research on statin uptake among participants in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study and Women鈥檚 Interagency HIV Study. Among nearly 1700 men and women indicated for statin treatment between 2014 and 2018...

It is with heavy hearts that we share the passing of 黑料网 CFAR’s Co-Director, Ada Adimora, Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicine and professor of epidemiology. Dr. Adimora, a brilliant and compassionate physician scientist, left an indelible mark in our program, department, and the broader medical community. Dr. Adimora...

黑料网-Chapel Hill was recently named a National HIV Residency Pathway Consortium Site and awarded a year-long, $68,000 grant to support its efforts in training family medicine and internal medicine residents in caring for people with HIV. 黑料网鈥檚 site Investigators, Rick Moore, MD, and Louise Rambo King, MD, have a storied...

This article has been reposted from 黑料网’s Institute of Global Health and Infectious Disease website. To see the full article, please click here. 聽 1) What is CFAR? Swanstrom: 鈥満诹贤� CFAR is one of 19 NIH Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR) programs across the US that promote high quality AIDS...