News Article
July 19, 2010
Duke and DGHI Research is Presented at International AIDS Conference
The research of a group of DGHI-affiliated faculty and postdoctoral fellows will be presented this week during The International AIDS Conference, taking place in Vienna through Friday. As the leading gathering for HIV/AIDS researchers and policy makers around the world, Duke’s attendance highlights the university’s strong research portfolio in HIV/AIDS, and the work of DGHI’s signature research initiative on emerging infectious diseases.
DGHI member Christina Meade will present a poster focusing on mania and cocaine use as predictors of sexual risk in patients with co-occurring bipolar and substance use disorders in the greater Boston area.
Postdoctoral Fellows Eve Puffer and Nina Yamanis will deliver posters on various aspects of the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Puffer’s poster evaluates the role of religion in coping with HIV risk and poverty in rural Kenya. Yamanis will present two posters on her research in urban Tanzania, focusing on HIV risk behaviors among young male injecting drug users and partnership-level determinants of relationship violence by young men.
Elizabeth Reddy, a Duke Fellow in the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health who is based at Duke’s global health site in Moshi Tanzania, will give an oral presentation on the outcomes of second line antiretroviral therapy for children with HIV. Reddy, Duke medical student Richard Waters and DGHI facultyNathan Thielman and Jan Ostermann also co-authored a poster on the challenges of promoting a couples HIV testing model in rural Northern Tanzania.
Reddy and DGHI member John Crump are also co-authors of a separate poster on tuberculosis in HIV infected and uninfected children and adults in Tanzania.
DGHI Associate Director of Research John Bartlett, also the co-director of the Center for AIDS Research, has co-authored a poster on international clinical trials network performance standards.
Additionally, the final report of the aids2031 Science and Technology Working Group co-chaired by DGHI Director Michael Merson and DGHI Board of Advisors Member Chris Elias of PATH, will also be released at the international gathering.
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