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What does HIV/AIDS cost? The answer to this question depends a lot on whom you ask. Updated: 2010-10-26 18:55:42 Description: Ask the UN and you’ll get the staggering sum of $10 billion. A year . The annual per capita cost of treating infected Africans, where much of the UN money goes, is around $1,100. One of the major problems facing HIV/AIDS advocates is their inabil...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Picture of Life with HIV in Africa Updated: 2010-10-19 19:53:18 Description: Africa. The seed of the world. One of the most beautiful and most scintillating places on earth. From the deserts of the Sahara and the rainforests of the Congo to the bright and bustling metropolis of Cape Town, life is rich everywhere. Yet amidst a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Compulsory HIV Testing Updated: 2010-10-14 19:18:27 Description: No one can argue that HIV testing is a bad thing. Knowing one’s status allows a person to access treatment earlier, change risky behaviors, or rest assured that he/she is indeed HIV negative. With that said, why not make HIV testing mandatory for e...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Born HIV Free campaign to end mother-to-child-transmission Updated: 2010-07-07 20:18:48 Description: “By 2015, let us end the transmission of HIV from mother to child. This is not a dream: we can do it.”Carla Bruni-Sarkozy,The Global Fund AmbassadorWith that simple statement from Ms. Bruni-Sarkozy as its guiding principle, the Global Fund to Fig...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Taking Lessons from the CCR5Δ32 Mutation for Patient Treatment Updated: 2009-11-20 19:03:35 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Search for an HIV vaccine Updated: 2009-11-11 22:01:12 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Intersecting Epidemics: HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis Updated: 2009-10-17 20:00:33 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Preventing Mother to Child Transmission of HIV in Mwandi, Zambia- A Success Updated: 2009-10-02 18:17:19 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Case for Thai MSM and MSW Updated: 2009-03-27 17:59:10 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Dissidents' Views of HIV Tests Updated: 2009-03-04 21:33:59 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD HIV/AIDS Orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa Updated: 2009-02-19 16:32:24 Description: More than twenty-five million people have died from AIDS since it was first recognized in 1981, making it one of the most destructive epidemics in history. It is undeniable however, that sub-Saharan Africa is the hardest hit and most affected ar...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD US Travel Ban on HIV-infected Individuals Updated: 2009-02-10 17:09:29 Description: Welcome to this installment of The AIDS pandemic, a podcast hosted by Dr. David Wessner from the Department of Biology at Davidson College. I’m Middleton Chang. Since 1987, the United States Department of Health and Human Services has imposed a tra...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ryan White CARE Act Updated: 2009-01-09 21:29:57 Description: I'm Utsha Khatri. The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act, was the first piece of comprehensive AIDS legislation created to provide funding for people living with AIDS (PWAs) to access care and treatment. Ryan White was a yo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Time to Prepare for “PrEP” Updated: 2008-12-17 15:14:05 Description: It all began with a 1994 study that showed antiretrovirals given to HIV-positive pregnant women before and during childbirth – as well as to the child upon delivery – reduced the risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission by 50%. Next were the pos...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD New Leadership in South Africa brings hope for AIDS Reform Updated: 2008-12-09 21:02:43 Description: 72% of the 5.5 million South Africans who are HIV-positive are in need of antiretroviral (ARV) drug treatment. In leading the movement against ARV drugs, recently removed South African President Thabo Mbeki denied millions of his people HIV treatmen...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD World AIDS Day – The Power of One Updated: 2008-12-01 16:49:48 Description: Today is the 20th annual World AIDS Day, a day set aside to remember those who have died of HIV/AIDS and those who are living with HIV/AIDS. It’s also a day to remind ourselves that we all are affected by this disease. Today, many of us are wearing...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The role of concurrent relationships in the spread of HIV in Africa Updated: 2008-11-21 21:43:22 Description: I'm Courtney Sanders.According to the 2008 UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic, countries in Sub-Saharan Africa continue to bear a disproportionate share of the global HIV/AIDS burden. In all, an estimated 67% of people living with HIV reside i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The reality of HIV/AIDS: It hasn't gone away Updated: 2008-11-11 16:10:10 Description: In a recent episode of the television show South Park, one of the main characters is infected with HIV. In an attempt to find a cure, he must continually deal with the public opinion that AIDS is no longer a threatening condition. He is told that h...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Past, Present, and Future Updated: 2008-10-27 14:54:08 Description: Welcome to this installment of The AIDS Pandemic, a podcast hosted by Dr. David Wessner from the Department of Biology at Davidson College. I’m Kara Earle.Since the diagnosis of the first case of HIV in 1982, infection rates in South Africa have sk...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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