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World AIDS Day: What does the future hold?
Coverage in the Los Angeles Times, December 1, 2011, featuring HSPH's Rick Marlink
End to 30-year war against AIDS in sight
Boston, MA -- Thirty years, 30 million deaths and 60 million infections after HIV appeared, medical researchers now have the tools to halt the deadly epidemic. "We have the weapons to win the war against AIDS," says [[Richard…
HSPH research on benefits of treating AIDS patients cited by Secretary Clinton
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently cited ongoing research by Stephen Resch, deputy director of the Center for Health Decision Science at Harvard School of Public Health, in a November 8, 2011 speech at the National Institutes…
Harvard School of Public Health awarded $20 million CDC grant to study HIV prevention in Botswana
For immediate release: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 Boston, MA — A new four-year, $20 million grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will enable Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers to evaluate the…
CIFF grant supports new health leadership development program
[ Fall 2011 ] Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS) will launch a unique ministerial health leadership development program next year in collaboration with the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF). Designed for ministerial-level leaders…
HSPH AIDS Initiative newsletter features Q&A with Prof. Max Essex, profile of researcher Vladimir Novitsky
The HAI Spotlight Summer 2011 issue, produced by the Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative includes the following stories: Surprise Finding in the Newly Infected In a paper published this April in AIDS, HAI researchers found that…
AIDS in 1982: Buried in the back pages
August, 1982. Robin Herman, who is currently assistant dean for research communications at HSPH, was then a metro reporter for The New York Times. She was assigned to cover a cluster of cases in New York City of a frightening…
AIDS at 30: Hard lessons and hope
[ Spring/Summer 2011 ] Thirty years after the first official reports about HIV/AIDS, we look back on the human devastation and forward to a changed social landscape. The infection has killed more people so far than has any…
Dean's message: HIV/AIDS at 30: Turning the corner
[ Spring/Summer 2011 ] Anniversaries compel us to reflect, to take stock, to inquire about how we can better carry out our missions. On the 30th anniversary of the first official report on what would be known as…
Carrying on the quest for an HIV vaccine
Donald Francis, SD ’79, has been in the front lines of the battle against AIDS since 1981 and was one of the first scientists to suggest that the then-mysterious disease was caused by an infectious agent. In the…
