Podcasts by The AIDS Pandemic
In this podcast, students of Davidson College and I will explore the biology of HIV/AIDS, its history, and review the latest scientific advances related to this pandemic.
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What does HIV/AIDS cost? The answer to this question depends a lot on whom you ask. from 2010-10-26T11:55:42
Ask the UN and you’ll get the staggering sum of $10 billion.A year. The annual per capita cost of treat...
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A Picture of Life with HIV in Africa from 2010-10-19T12:53:18
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 metropoli...
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Compulsory HIV Testing from 2010-10-14T12:18:27
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 ...
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AIDS 2010 - Day 6 from 2010-07-24T13:23:44
The XVIII International AIDS Conference has come to a close. During the final day, summaries of the meeting were presented and the organizers of the next meeting were introduced.
In 2012...
AIDS 2010 - Day 5 from 2010-07-23T13:36:57
At this meeting, the official sessions - plenary talks, poster presentations, panel discussions - are only half of the story. For the week of he International AIDS Conference, the city of Vienna ha...
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AIDS 2010 - Day 3&4 from 2010-07-22T07:19
The big news at the conference on Tuesday was the announcement of an effective vaginal microbicide. Dr. Abdool Karim and colleagues from South Africa made the announcement to a very enthusiastic cr...
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AIDS 2010 - Day 2 from 2010-07-19T13:32:52
Today was the first full day of activities at the XVIII International AIDS Conference. And what a day it was. Again, I'm amazed by the energy and excitement associated with this meeting. And at th...
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Rights here, right now - AIDS 2010 from 2010-07-18T21:58:51
Today marked the opening of the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria. What strikes me most about this biennial conference is the energy and excitement. People from all over the wo...
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Born HIV Free campaign to end mother-to-child-transmission from 2010-07-07T13:18:48
“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 Ambassador
With that sim...
National HIV Testing Day from 2010-06-25T20:12:09
Welcome to this installment of The AIDS Pandemic. June 27, 2010 is National HIV Testing Day. For many people, this news probably is met with ambivalence. We have a day for everything, it seems. So ...
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Taking Lessons from the CCR5?32 Mutation for Patient Treatment from 2009-11-20T12:03:35
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 pr...
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The Search for an HIV vaccine from 2009-11-11T14:01:12
I'm Paige Bates and this is The AIDS Pandemic
The 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...
Intersecting Epidemics: HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis from 2009-10-17T13:00:33
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 ...
Preventing Mother to Child Transmission of HIV in Mwandi, Zambia- A Success from 2009-10-02T11:17:19
Welcome to this installment of the AIDS Pandemic, a podcast hosted byDave Wessnerof the Department of Biology at Davidson C...
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The Case for Thai MSM and MSW from 2009-03-27T10:59:10
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...
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The Dissidents' Views of HIV Tests from 2009-03-04T13:33:59
Momentum for the alternate HIV/AIDS explanation started in 1987 whenDr. Peter Duesberg, a professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the Univers...
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HIV/AIDS Orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa from 2009-02-19T08:32:24
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US Travel Ban on HIV-infected Individuals from 2009-02-10T09:09:29
Welcome to this installment of The AIDS pandemic, a podcast hosted byDr. David Wessnerfrom the Department of Biology at Dav...
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Ryan White CARE Act from 2009-01-09T13:29:57
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Time to Prepare for “PrEP” from 2008-12-17T07:14:05
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New Leadership in South Africa brings hope for AIDS Reform from 2008-12-09T13:02:43
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 T...
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World AIDS Day – The Power of One from 2008-12-01T08:49:48
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 affe...
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The role of concurrent relationships in the spread of HIV in Africa from 2008-11-21T13:43:22
I'm Courtney Sanders.
According to the2008 UNAIDS Report on the Global ...
The reality of HIV/AIDS: It hasn't gone away from 2008-11-11T08:10:10
In a recent episode of the television showSouth Park, one of the main characters is infected with HIV. In an attempt to...
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HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Past, Present, and Future from 2008-10-27T07:54:08
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 fir...