All Posts: HIV
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Georgetown’s Center for Innovation in Global Health, in Partnership with the Government of Malawi, Leverages Emerging Tools To Accelerate an End to National HIV Epidemic
Georgetown University’s Center for Innovation in Global Health (CIGH), in partnership with the Republic of Malawi’s Ministry of Health, will advance research and policy toward the scale-up of long-acting injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs to prevent HIV in the African country.
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New UNAIDS Collaborating Center at Georgetown Leverages Strengths in HIV/AIDS Law, Policy, and Politics
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) today designated the Global Health Policy and Politics Initiative at Georgetown as a United Nations Collaborating Center to support and advance policy and laws impacting HIV/AIDS with the overarching goal of addressing the inequalities driving the pandemic.
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Georgetown International Health Professor to Serve as UNAIDS Special Advisor to Executive Director
Category: GUMC Stories
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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 […]
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Researchers Find Diverse Supportive Partnerships Among Older Gay Men With and Without HIV
WASHINGTON (February 17, 2021) — Recent data reveals that gay men living with HIV report having supportive relationships with family, friends or in informal relationships rather than with primary romantic partners, while gay men who are HIV-negative report having relationships mainly with primary partners. Additionally, gay men living with HIV were more likely to report […]
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HIV Policies In Most Countries Are Not Aligned With International Standards, Undermining Progress Against AIDS, New Report Shows
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Georgetown Global Health Experts Apply Past Lessons to COVID-19
(April 21, 2020) — As COVID-19 cases continue to spread around the globe, there is still much to be understood: how long drastic “social distancing” measures will be necessary, whether there will be a resurgence months from now, and to what extent viral mutations might impact clinical outcomes, among many other critical questions. As the […]
Category: GUMC Stories
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Cura Personalis Award Recipient: HIV/AIDS Epidemic Taught Me to be a Better Person
(November 27, 2019) — When Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, reflects on her graduation day from medical school at Cairo University many years ago, she admits that her perception then about what it meant to be a physician differed greatly from reality. The infectious-disease trained doctor, who leads ICAP — a global health center at […]
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Colloquium Panelists Discuss Next Steps Toward Ending HIV Epidemic
(November 26, 2019) — While remarkable strides have been made towards ending the HIV epidemic, an incredible amount of work remains, panelists agreed at the Colloquium on HIV/AIDS, part of the Twelfth Annual GUMC Convocation on November 18. “I think we’re in a good place, but nonetheless I always say the accomplishments are fragile, very […]
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Georgetown HIV Expert Co-Authors Report on HIV in America
(October 3, 2019) — In his 2019 State of the Union address, President Trump announced a new federal commitment to ending the HIV epidemic in 10 years. For infectious disease physician Charles Holmes, MD, faculty co-director of Georgetown’s Center for Global Health Impact and Practice, the announcement was a door cracked open to an opportunity […]
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