Save the date Starting November 5, UNC CFAR will be hosting the 23rd Annual National CFAR Meeting. Constituents from all nineteen Centers for AIDS … Read More
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UNC to Host 2019 National CFAR Meeting
2019 Summer Internship Opportunity
Do you want to use math or computer science to help the fight against HIV/AIDS? The Biostatistics Core at UNC Center for AIDS Research is seeking … Read More
World AIDS Day Symposium Recording
On Friday, Nov. 30, the UNC Center for AIDS Research and UNC Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases hosted the 20th annual World AIDS … Read More
UNC CFAR in the News
Cohen Steps Down at Division of Infectious Diseases, Appointed to Fogarty Advisory Board
After 30 years of contribution, UNC CFAR Associate Director Myron “Mike” Cohen, MD will step down from his position as Chief of UNC Division of Infectious Diseases. Learn more about Cohen’s influential career, including his recent appointment to the National Institute of Health Fogarty Advisory Board, where he will join other researchers and policymakers providing oversight… Read More
Intervention Improves Adherence, Decreases Mortality
UNC researchers were part of a team that found an integrated intervention increased HIV medication uptake and decreased mortality among people living with HIV who inject drugs at three international sites. Their results were published in The Lancet. The study, HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 074, assessed an integrated intervention combining psychosocial counseling and supported… Read More
PrEP Open House
NCATEC will be hosting “PrEP Open House: What Doctors Need to Know; What Patients Need to Ask” on Friday June 29 from 2pm to 3:30pm in the first floor auditorium of the Bioinformatics Building (130 Mason Farm Road) on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill. Public parking is available across the street. This training will address… Read More
Ryan White Remembered
April 8 marks the 28 year anniversary of Ryan White’s death. Before HIV transmission was well understood, factor 8, a protein important to blood clotting, was often pooled from hundreds of untested blood donations. This exposed hemophilia patients like Ryan White to HIV; in an article for PBS Newshour, Dr. Howard Markel recalls that “virtually… Read More
Myron Cohen Interviewed for The Body
Myles Helfand interviewed Associate CFAR Director Myron Cohen in a series for The Body. In a short video interview with The Body, an HIV/AIDS-specific service of Remedy Health Media, Dr. Myron Cohen, MD, Associate CFAR Director & International Core Associate Director, shares a personal anecdote about a patient whose wellbeing was rapidly transformed with the… Read More
