The Duke Center for AIDS Research is committed to ending the HIV epidemic in the U.S. and globally through innovative, collaborative, and engaged research.
This #WorldAIDSDay, we'll be sharing photos from @DukeCFAR members and others across @DukeU & @dukemedicine who are rocking their ribbons for #HIV awareness. Learn more & view the full gallery: https://t.co/OT8VpgtsrS
Are you rocking the ribbon today? Show us how or tell us why!
Sign up now! The Providence-Boston CFAR is proud to announce our upcoming Symposium on Statistics and Data Science in HIV on June 5 & 6, 2023. Click here to register: https://t.co/TWLKK7ilKN
Visit our website for more information: https://t.co/WRBvlcMq6X
#OURstory acknowledges our past, using an interactive Native HIV/AIDS timeline to showcase actions of leaders throughout the #HIVepidemic that ensured Natives are heard & included in U.S. HIV policies, initiatives, & funding.
View & share the timeline: https://t.co/lzfvkp60iA
Today is National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (#NNHAAD)!
The #NHAS recognizes the HIV-related disparities & health inequities that American Indian & Alaska Native communities experience—particularly gay, bisexual, & other men who have sex with men. ⬇
It's National Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (#NWGHAAD). Let's shine a light on inequities in women's access to #HIV screening, prevention, & care — especially for women & girls of color. Learn more from #EmoryCFAR Member, @WhitneyS_Rice via @AIDSVu: https://t.co/w1uzKZCff6
Through a small grant mechanism, the Duke CFAR supported an innovative project to engage an entire class of first-year ID fellows in a study examining testing for STIs among people tested for #mpox and health disparities in mpox vaccination. Learn more: https://t.co/jW2oI06vwX
Our first-year fellows, Wil Woodhouse and Emily Niehaus with Patricia Kohler, NP at the 30th Annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in front of their poster Identifying Disparities in Mpox Vaccination. They did an outstanding job! #IDFellows#CROI2023
February 28 is #HIVisNotaCrime Awareness Day. This video from NASTAD discusses how North Carolina's HIV Control Measures were amended in 2018 based on research and evidence, including #UequalsU, and jointly built community support led by @NCAIDSAction & @SASICoalition
To learn more about #HIVisNotACrime Awareness Day, read this page from @HIVGov, including a video from NASTAD's ‘Stigma Series’ regarding the modernization of HIV laws and policies in North Carolina: https://t.co/tsSy6MQHfO
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HIV is NOT A CRIME. As long as we continue to treat it as such, the stigma and fear of persecution will continue to discourage people from getting tested and treated #StopTheStigma
Today we honor HIV Is Not A Crime Awareness Day. Check out @ETAForg to learn more
#TestandRest
Excited to see this partnership between @Dr_Sarah_Wilson (co-director of our Social & Behavioral Sciences Core) + Joaquín Carcaño of @LatinoDeepSouth, centering community voices with the long-term goal of changing harmful systems & promoting #HIVprevention in the Latino community
Duke Psychiatry's @Dr_Sarah_Wilson is partnering w/@LatinoDeepSouth's @j_carcano to launch a community-based, equity-focused initiative in the Charlotte, NC area to ⬇️ inequities that place Latinx individuals at ⬆️ risk of #HIV.
https://t.co/Eg15Te8Zk4
@vadurham@DukeMedSchool
.@NIH has funded over 200 collaborative projects between academic centers for AIDS research & #HIV service providers (health departments, health systems, community orgs). Our new infographic covers some of their early accomplishments. Follow for monthly infographics. @NIH_OAR
Congratulations to these SOM faculty, including CFAR members Dr. Gerald Bloomfield and Dr. Thuy Le, on their election to the American Society for Clinical Investigation! 🎉
Congratulations to our faculty elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, an esteemed nonprofit honor society of physician-scientists.
Gerald Bloomfield, MD
Dennis Ko, MD, PhD
Thuy Le, MD, DPhil
Edward Miao, MD, PhD
Jonathan Piccini, MD
https://t.co/8HN1EGX1Yo
Save the date to join the Inter-CFAR HIV & Aging Working Group for a special virtual seminar on 1/25 at 12PM EST! Harold J. Phillips (@WhiteHouse) will join us to discuss "HIV & Aging: The Opportunities and Challenges for the U.S. RSVP for Zoom link: https://t.co/jHcSySCsUy
“These research stars span four areas of #HIV/AIDS research: computational biology, clinical implementation, lab-based science and social & behavioral science,” @snaggie1 says. “While their research programs are independent, they work collectively as part of the Duke CFAR team.”
Excellent time at #ANAC2022 with @DrSRandolph & @BAKnettel as we all presented our work for ending the HIV epidemic and improving health outcomes. @ANACnurses
Upcoming from @DukeCFAR:
On its next edition of Rocket Talk, Dr. Ariana Eily of Elon University and Dr. Christine Daniels of AskBio will present on interdisciplinary science communication. Watch Dec. 12 at 4pm via Zoom. Link to tune in ⤵️
https://t.co/TitMWLCYkz
"One thing we teach, in addition to the medical management of HIV, is the psychosocial perspective and understanding the impact of HIV on #mentalhealth"
Important work by CFAR member @KaraBullCityPA to train NPs to "address the full spectrum of needs of people living with #HIV"
Our very own Dr. Brandon Knettel and Dean Ramos joined @DukeCFAR for #WorldAIDSDay to share why they rock the ribbon. Why do you rock the ribbon? View full campaign: https://t.co/gAmL2nX5lK