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They Thought This HIV Strategy Couldn't Work. But It Did
In high-income countries like the U.S., the standard of care for people infected by HIV is to provide antiretroviral pills when the virus is found, even when there are no symptoms of AIDS. The strategy staves off the disease and has a second – big –...
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Joanne D. Stekler
Adjunct Professor, Global Health ...
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Why Asia’s early heat wave is so alarming
Climate change is making a safe, slow adjustment to heat much harder by upending what we’d typically expect as seasons change. Summers are getting longer and more intense, encroaching on winter and extending long into the fall. Large parts of Asia have...
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Air Pollution Exposures in Early Life and Brain Development in Children
This project will establish a prospective mother-infant cohort for studies on neurotoxicant exposures and child neurodevelopmental outcomes, and will develop capacity building to understand early life air pollution sources (using mobile monitoring and...
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Join Us For the Global Health: Next Decade, Next Generation Symposium
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The Community-based ART REtention and Suppression (CARES) App: an innovation to improve patient monitoring and evaluation data in community-based antiretroviral therapy programs in Lilongwe, Malawi.
This quasi-experimental, interrupted time series designed study uses implementation science methods to test an mHealth app developed to provide a high-quality, point-of-care, electronic medical records system in a routine, public, DSD setting in Malawi,...
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Traumatic Brain Injury Study in Latin America
In a study published Dec. 12 in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers at UW working with colleagues at six hospitals in Bolivia and Ecuador. found that intracranial pressure monitoring – the standard of care for severe traumatic brain injury...
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Ancient DNA offers new evidence in long-standing syphilis theory
The origins of syphilis — a sexually transmitted infection that devastated 15th century Europe and is still prevalent today — have remained murky, difficult to study and the subject of some debate. ...
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Climate change is pushing hospitals to tipping point
When an unprecedented heat wave baked the Pacific Northwest last July, emergency rooms sought any way possible to lower the core body temperatures of patients coming in droves with heat-related ailments. Many emergency departments in the region began...
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Heat is the deadliest form of extreme weather. Why are fatalities so hard to track?
As summer begins in the United States, some local officials and health experts are sounding the alarm about the dangers of extreme heat, whose effects can be deadly but hard to trace. Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and...