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The AIDS Pandemic
http://the-aids-pandemic.blogspot.com
In this blog and podcast, students from Davidson College explore the many facets of HIV/AIDS.
- Added on: Dec 2nd, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Recent Posts
Taking Lessons from the CCR5Δ32 Mutation for Patient Treatment
I’m Lindsay Sween, and welcome to this installment of the AIDS Pandemic blog and podcast.Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) invades a CD4+ (T4) cell through the attachment of the viral protein gp120 to its primary cellular receptor, CD4, a...
The Search for an HIV vaccine
I'm Paige Bates and this is The AIDS PandemicThe RV144 study was a phase III HIV vaccine trial conducted by the US Army and Thai government over seven years on 16,402 volunteers—all HIV negative men and women between the ages of 18 and 30 in parts ...
Intersecting Epidemics: HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis
Hi, I’m Justin Eusebio.While tuberculosis is one of the world’s oldest surviving plagues and HIV-1 infection is one of medicine’s newest challenges, there is an undeniable relationship between HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. Independently, Mycobact...
Preventing Mother to Child Transmission of HIV in Mwandi, Zambia- A Success
Welcome to this installment of the AIDS Pandemic, a podcast hosted by Dave Wessner of the Department of Biology at Davidson College. I am Sarah Bertram. This past summer, I traveled to Mwandi, Zambia through a Davidson biology and pre-medical program...
The Case for Thai MSM and MSW
The prevalence of HIV/AIDS in certain high risk groups is on the rise today as government funding for prevention campaigns nears an all-time low in Thailand, a country once touted the ‘poster-child’ for HIV/AIDS prevention efforts. Hello, I am D...
The Dissidents' Views of HIV Tests
Momentum for the alternate HIV/AIDS explanation started in 1987 when Dr. Peter Duesberg, a professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California at Berkeley and initial demonstrator that the influenza virus has a segmented genome, p...
