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SPH This Week | Special Edition

 
To mark World AIDS Day, we are dedicating this week’s issue to HIV/AIDS.
 
December 1, 2019
 
 
 
 
Upcoming Signature Program
 
Is Eradicating AIDS Feasible?
 
 
Dec 2
3 to 5:30 p.m.
 
 
Hiebert Lounge, 72 East Concord Street, Boston
 
 
 
 
Q&A
 
 
‘Where Public Health Meets Social Justice’
 
Ahead of the Bicknell Lecture, Jonathan Mermin, director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, discusses progress, challenges, and the new 10-year plan to end the HIV epidemic.
 
 
Viewpoint
 
 
Reaching Global HIV Goals Will Take Creativity
 
In low- and middle-income countries, a one-size-fits-all approach to delivering antiretroviral therapy is not optimal for either patients or providers. Creative new models show promise.
 
Research
 
 
‘PrEP Has Potential, but Only If People Take It’
 
Black and Hispanic men who have sex with men are still less likely than their white counterparts to know about the HIV-prevention pill.
 
 
 
 
Activist Lab
 
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‘They Have Become a Part of History’
 
At an AIDS Memorial Quilt viewing on campus in 2017, activists Nancy Norman and Andrew Fullem reflected on the memorial’s resonance and its shifting meaning today.
 
Public Health Post
 
 
What Works for HIV
 
San Francisco has focused on prevention and treatment efforts to decrease the number of HIV diagnoses and AIDS deaths, informing future HIV responses.
 
 
HIV/AIDS News, Research, Interviews, and Viewpoints
 
 
Published on 8/29/2019
 
‘Poetry Allows Us to Speak the Unspeakable’
 
Rafael Campo, poet and physician, on empathy in medicine and how poetry helped him come to terms with his identity, sexuality, and faith.
 
Published on 4/10/2019
 
As They Age, People Living with HIV Getting Other Chronic Conditions
 
Three-quarters of Medicaid-enrolled people living with HIV have at least one other chronic condition, and a quarter have five or more.
 
Published on 11/19/2018
 
Low PrEP Knowledge Among People Who Inject Drugs
 
Despite high risk of HIV, people who inject drugs have limited knowledge and mixed interest in pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).
 
 
Published on 10/19/2018
 
[VIDEO] Organization of HIV Care Linked to Providers’ Moral Judgments of Their Patients
 
Providers who work independently see treatment non-adherence as personal failing, while multidisciplinary teams understand adherence within patients’ socio-cultural context.
 
Published on 10/10/2018
 
Professor Receives $5.3M NIH Grant for HIV Research in Zambia
 
Donald Thea receives $5.3 million grant to study illness and mortality among HIV-exposed but uninfected children in Zambia.
 
Published on 1/17/2018
 
Young Men Who Have Sex with Men Receive Less HIV Education
 
A demographic at high risk of HIV infection reports receiving less HIV education than peers.
 
 
Published on 3/9/2017
 
Alum Challenges Narrative of HIV/AIDS
 
Diveena Cooppan screens her debut film, Positively Beautiful.
 
Published on 6/30/2016
 
[VIDEO] ‘The Longer You Stay, the Less You Know’
 
Tanzania-based alum Cristin Marona looks for lasting solutions.
 
Published on 4/1/2016
 
Alum Named 40 Under 40 Leader in Health
 
Jirair Ratevosian receives a 40 Under 40 Leaders in Health Award from the National Minority Quality Forum.
 
 
Published on 2/9/2016
 
Professor’s Book on Life with HIV Updated
 
Living a Healthy Life with HIV, co-authored by Allen Gifford, is now in its fourth edition.
 
Published on 12/18/2015
 
In the Classroom: Students Challenge Their Ethical Assumptions
 
Lisa Messersmith’s Global AIDS Epidemic course concludes with a series of debates where students take on difficult viewpoints.
 
Published on 12/1/2015
 
[VIDEO] Students Help Implement Indian HIV-Positive Vocational School
 
Shirly Thomas and Miranda Fadden worked with Snehagram, a residential school for children with HIV.
 
 
 
 
In the Media
 
 
Contagion
 
Enhanced Treatments, Access to Care Reduce High-Risk Behaviors among Men with HIV — quotes Angela Bazzi, assistant professor of community health sciences.
 
 
Rainbow Times
 
New Policy Outlines Best Practices for Retaining Transgender Women in HIV Care — quotes Sean Cahill, adjunct associate professor of the practice, health law, policy & management.
 
 
The Lancet
 
President of Zambia Declares HIV Testing Mandatory — quotes Sydney Rosen, research professor of global health.
 
 
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Looking Ahead
 
DEAN’S SEMINAR: BICKNELL LECTURE—Is Eradicating AIDS Feasible?
 
Monday, December 2, 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm, Hiebert Lounge.
 
 
December Graduate Reception
 
Friday, December 6, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm, Hiebert Lounge.
 
 
School Assembly for Faculty and Staff
 
Tuesday, December 10, 8:45 am – 10:50 am, Hiebert Lounge.
 
 
Student Coffee Chat with the Dean
 
Thursday, December 12, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Founders Room.
 
 
Holiday Party for Faculty and Staff
 
Friday, December 13, 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm, Cinquecento Roman Trattoria, 500 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA.
 
 
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