By Gerard Gallagher
Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, for HIV prevention has a similar efficacy in women with “abnormal” vs. “normal” vaginal microbiota, according to recent findings.
By Bibhav Acharya, Mental Health Advisor at Possible and first author on the publications referenced in this column, with co-authors David Citrin, Affiliate Instructor of Global Health at UW and Scott Halliday, Program Coordinator of the UW Nepal Studies Initiative.
By Mary Engel
A Fred Hutch and University of Washington team of virologists and bioengineers led by Dr. Keith Jerome has received a $200,000 grant — the first phase of up to $1.5 million in milestone-driven funding over four years — to develop nanocarrier technology to deliver therapies to reservoirs of dormant, HIV-infected cells.
Christopher Sanford, Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Global Health at the University of Washington and recognized expert in Tropical medicine, was featured on Outbreak News This Week Radio Show's Podcast to discuss a number of travel health related issues to include vaccines, malaria, yellow fever, traveler’s diarrhea.
By Robert Preidt
Getting people worldwide to eat more fruits and vegetables could significantly reduce disability and premature death from heart disease, researchers report.
For the study, investigators analyzed data and previous studies to determine how fruit and vegetable consumption affected the number of "heart disease-related disability-adjusted life years" (DALYs) -- healthy years lost to disability or death -- in 195 countries. Each DALY is one lost year of healthy life.
BBC Health Check recently visited Lima, Peru to investigate how new 'healthy gardens' and greenspaces are improving lives in the slum community of Iquitos. Joe Zunt, a Professor of Global Health at UW, has been working closely with landscape architecture student Jorge 'Coco' Alarcon and community partners to design backyard gardens that can improve air quality, reduce vector-borne diseases, and boost mental health.
The Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) took place in Seattle in mid-February, a forum for researchers and advocates to discuss the basic science and clinical discoveries of human retroviruses and associated diseases.
Sharon Greene, MPH student in Epidemiology at the UW School of Public Health, presented findings during CROI on a 3-year study comparing the effectiveness of cryotherapy and loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP) to eliminate risk of cervical pre-cancer for women living with HIV.
Washington Governor Jay Inslee spoke with Chuck Todd on NBC's Meet The Press about the impact on our state of President Donald Trump's immigration ban against seven majority-Muslim countries.
By LiLi Tan
University of Washington students are developing a test that could improve the lives of people around the world. It’s a credit card-sized HIV test called the OLA Simple.
“Very much looking like a pregnancy test. So there will be lines and you can know the result right away,” Nuttada Panpradist said. The Global WACh Certificate and fourth year bioengineering PhD student recently won a $50,000 APF Student Technology Prize for Primary Healthcare from Massachusetts General Hospital.
By Catherine Cheney
Chris Murray, professor of global health at the University of Washington and director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, first met Bill Gates when the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was just getting started.