Foundation Blog
News, commentary, and voices in the efforts to eliminate HIV and AIDS in children worldwide.
Posted by
Dr. Jeffrey Safrit
Los Angeles, CA
May 18, 2012
Today, on HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, we’re reading about the continued need to develop a vaccine to help achieve an AIDS-free generation.
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Posted by
Dr. Jeffrey Safrit
Los Angeles, California
March 9, 2011
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Last week, the largest North American gathering of scientists and clinicians working on HIV/AIDS and related viruses took place in Boston.
The 18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) highlighted several studies that gave us more knowledge on how to prevent the more than 1,000 new HIV infections in children that occur around the world every day.
The Foundation's Director of Clinical and Basic Research Dr. Jeffrey Safrit was there, and provides an overview of the most significant studies for children. Read his CROI pediatric summary after the jump.
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Posted by
Dr. Jeffrey Safrit
Los Angeles, California
February 10, 2011
(Photo: EGPAF/Mia Collis)
A new study has just published results on additional potential risks to HIV-exposed infants in Africa.
Even if those infants remain HIV-free, they are more susceptible to a host of other serious illnesses, and thus more likely to die in their first year of life without timely vaccinations.
The study was published earlier this week in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and one of its authors, Dr. Anneke Hesseling, was a recipient of the Foundation’s International Leadership Award (ILA).
Continue past the jump to read more about the study.
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Posted by
Dr. Jeffrey Safrit
Los Angeles, CA
November 24, 2010
The Foundation is excited to announce that it is accepting Letters of Intent for its International Leadership Award (ILA), the 14th ILA to be given by the Foundation since 2002. This year, the award is supported through the generous funding of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. ILA recipients, selected through a competitive peer review process, are internationally-based scientists, physicians, and public health specialists who have the potential to develop pediatric HIV/AIDS programs, but lack the in-country resources – modern technologies and other tools – to implement such vital initiatives. Read more after the jump.
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Posted by
Dr. Jeffrey Safrit
Los Angeles, California
September 23, 2010
The Foundation learned earlier today that one of its International Leadership Awardees, Dr. Clive Gray from South Africa, has won Science Magazine's Science Prize for Online Resources in Education. The prize was established to recognize outstanding online materials that enrich science education.
Dr. Gray received the International Leadership Award in 2004 to create a clinical immunology website to share information with other clinicians on the front line of the war against HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.
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