All Posts: AIDS

• Showcasing the Breadth of Georgetown University’s Work in HIV

  This World AIDS Day, Georgetown University highlights its efforts to expand access to treatment, advance prevention strategies, and shape policies in the global fight against HIV.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: AIDS, global health, Global Health Institute, HIV, research

• Treatment and Prevention of HIV/AIDS: Unfinished Business

  As the world marks World AIDS Day on December 1, infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, MD, and his colleague Greg Folkers, MS, MPH, highlight advances made in the treatment and prevention of HIV that could finally end the pandemic, but caution the global community not to miss this opportunity.

  Category: News Release Tags: AIDS, global health, HIV, infectious disease, research

• Haitian-Focused Foundation Selects Georgetown to Support Youth HIV Programs

  A new grant will allow Georgetown’s Center for Global Health Practice and Impact to establish the Y-LEAF (Youth-led Eco Action for the Future) initiative to help more young people with HIV in Haiti thrive,

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: AIDS, Center for Global Health Practice and Impact, cura personalis, global health, Haiti, HIV, sustainability

• Georgetown International Health Professor to Serve as UNAIDS Special Advisor to Executive Director

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: AIDS, HIV, O'Neill Institute, School of Nursing & Health Studies

• Immune-Compromised People with HIV, APOE4 Gene May Have a Compounded Risk for Alzheimer’s

  WASHINGTON (February 22, 2021) — People living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) who have a history of severe immunosuppression and at least one copy of the Alzheimer’s disease-related gene variant APOE4 might see a compounded adverse effect on the circuitry that impacts memory. This could eventually lead to an increased risk for dementia after […]

  Category: News Release Tags: aging and HIV, AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, APOE4, brain, dementia, HIV, neuroimaging, neuroscience