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In America's prisons, suicide risk rises along with temperatures
Punishing heat is a fact of life inside America’s prisons without air conditioning, and it is taking a serious toll on prisoners’ mental health. When the outside thermometer hits 90 degrees Fahrenheit or more, a new study shows that prison suicide risk...
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NIH/NIAID Mucosal CTL Induction After HIV Exposure and Vaccination
The specific aims of the proposal are: 1) to identify viral and host factors associated with the induction and maintenance of mucosal CD8+ CTL in HIV-1 infected women; 2) investigate longitudinal CTL responses in HIV-1-infected persons at the clonal...
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New Global Health Security System Seeks to Improve on Past Failed Efforts
Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said his agency along with the Defense Department, plans to spend an additional $45 million in 2014 to partner with 10 countries on projects to improve field epidemiology and...
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King Holmes' Legacy Honored
Dr. King K. Holmes, chair of the UW Department of Global Health, won the prestigious 2013 Canada Gairdner Global Health Award for his work in sexually transmitted diseases, the Gairdner Foundation announced March 20. The award, valued at CAN$100,000 ...
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Baking Cities Advance "Slowly" in Race Against Rising Heat Threat (Reuters - Features Kristie Ebi)
With urban populations surging around the world, cities will struggle to keep residents safe from fast-growing heat risks turbo-charged by climate change, scientists and public health experts warned this week. ...
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Tacoma woman with tuberculosis facing arrest for refusing treatment
A Tacoma woman with tuberculosis is facing arrest after her counter-arguments in court were unsuccessful. The court order says she can be released when she is no longer a threat to the community. ...
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Humanosphere: Visualizing cervical cancer: Leading killer of African women
By Amy Vanderzanden ...
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Wenwen Jiang
Data Manager/Analyst, Global WACh ...
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Q&A with Nolawit Mulugeta
Fellowship Recipient, University of Washington Department of Global Health ...
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Support to the Mozambican Ministry of Health HIV ART Therapeutic Committees
This program's objective is to support the National and Provincial ART Therapeutic Committees (NATC and PATC) to increase detection and management of patients in therapeutic failure, access and use of second line ART to achieve viral suppression. This...