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Infectious disease expert works to ban landmines, fight tuberculosis and AIDS
Since the 1980s, infectious disease specialist Anne Goldfeld has worked to ban landmines, treat victims of tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in Cambodia and Ethiopia, and conduct research aimed at eradicating those diseases. A professor in the Department of Immunology…
World AIDS Day 2012
November 30, 2012 -- Since the early 1980s, HSPH researchers have made fundamental discoveries about HIV/AIDS and worked on the frontlines of the disease. In 1983, Max Essex provided key evidence that the infection is caused by a retrovirus; two years…
Interventions recommended to promote healthy behaviors among HIV-infected youth
As young people infected at birth with HIV enter adolescence and some, like other adolescents, begin having sex, it would be wise to offer interventions to promote healthy behaviors, say Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers and…
No benefit from high-dose multivitamins seen for HIV patients receiving antiretroviral therapy
For immediate release: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 Boston, MA – A new study by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers suggests that, for HIV patients receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) to treat HIV, there is no…
HIV-infected patients at higher risk of metabolic syndrome
HIV-infected patients treated with antiretroviral therapy (ART) are at increased risk of metabolic syndrome, and a new study helps identify patients most in need of interventions to reduce the risk. Metabolic syndrome, a condition characterized by a group…
HSPH research pinpoints strategy for monitoring antiretrovirals' effects on children of HIV-infected mothers
July 30, 2012 -- Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers have found an effective and cost-efficient strategy for monitoring the health and development of children whose HIV-infected mothers took antiretroviral (ARV) drugs during pregnancy, and for estimating the…
Where do we stand in the fight against AIDS?
More than 23,000 delegates from over 195 countries are gathered this week (July 22-27, 2012) in Washington, D.C., for the XIX International AIDS Conference. Richard G. Marlink, Beal Professor of the Practice of Public Health at Harvard School of…
Seven steps to AIDS-free generation; challenge of aging HIV population
July 19, 2012 -- Two special supplements published to mark AIDS 2012 conference Seven Essential Steps Toward an AIDS-Free Generation Frontline public health experts ask: Will society pay the price to turn a dream into reality? The end of…
Antiretroviral treatment helps keep HIV patients in South Africa employed
July 16, 2012 -- Antiretroviral drug treatment for HIV appears to have more payoffs than the promise of better health and a longer life – it also seems to help people living with HIV stay employed or get new…
Study digs into secrets of keeping HIV in check
Certain HIV-infected patients — about one in every 200 to 300 — are able to resist the AIDS virus for years. It appears these people have immune system cells that are better able to detect and kill HIV-infected…