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Christopher Hurt Discusses PrEP and Barriers to Care

January 7, 2016
In a recent interview, Dr. Christopher Hurt discussed three studies (HPTN067, the U.S. PrEP Demonstration Project and ATN110) that demonstrate the feasibility of wide-scale implementation of pre-exposure prophylaxis in the United States. Listen to the interview here.

Call for Applications: 2016 Explorations in Global Health Grants

January 7, 2016
This funding is offered by our partner institution at the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases. Program Description Explorations in Global Health faculty research grants are designed to foster the development of research projects and partnerships in global health.  Grants will be made to UNC faculty for international travel...

UNC Investigator Dr. Carol Golin featured in JANAC interview

November 17, 2015
UNC CFAR Investigator Carol Golin, MD, and Alexis Dennis, MPH, Duke Global Health Institute, were recently interviewed about their newly published manuscript, “’You’re in a world of chaos:’ Experiences accessing HIV care and adhering to medications after incarceration. Listen to the recording on Apple iTunes or on Facebook.

Early HIV Treatment Can Prevent Transmission to Uninfected Partners

August 3, 2015
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV infection provides consistent protection against the sexual transmission of the HIV virus from infected men and women to their HIV-uninfected sexual partners. These findings were announced on Monday, July 20 by researcher Dr. Myron Cohen at the 8th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment &...

HPTN 068 Shows No Decrease in HIV for Girls Paid to Attend School

August 3, 2015
From the International AIDS Society meeting in Vancouver: CFAR Dr. Audrey Pettifor’s HPTN 068 trial did not show a decrease in the number of high school-aged girls in South Africa’s rural Mpumalanga area contracting HIV despite the girls being given cash transfers. “Cash transfers play a key role in social...

Dr. David Margolis featured on NPR’s The State of Things

August 3, 2015
CFAR Investigator Dr. David Margolis has been featured on NPR’s The State of Things talking about how studies led by UNC investigators continue to make progress in HIV prevention, treatment and eradication research. He also discusses in layman’s terms all of the HIV news to come out of the International...

New CUREiculum Created for Community Engagement and Education

June 4, 2015
Research into an HIV cure has come alive recently with the infusion of new funding and new relationships such the UNC-Chapel Hill-GSK partnership as that announced on May 11, 2015. This relationship will launch the formation of a new company, Qura, to develop and take a cure to persons living...

Clinical Care in 2015: HIV, Hepatitis C & Vulnerable Populations

May 14, 2015
UNC CFAR hosted the annual HIV symposium for clinicians and non-clinicians, in conjunction with the The UNC – Chapel Hill School of Medicine, The Center for Infectious Diseases at UNC – Chapel Hill, North Carolina AIDS Training and Education Center, Greensboro AHEC and The Eshelman School of Pharmacy at UNC – Chapel...

Dr. Myron Cohen featured in BBC series “The Truth about AIDS”

May 14, 2015
Dr. Myron Cohen, CFAR Investigator and Director of the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, is featured in the first installment of BBC Radio’s five-part series The Truth about AIDS. In this episode, Tony Fauci looks back at the scientific breakthroughs that have transformed HIV/AIDS from a death sentence to a...

Motivational Interviewing

April 23, 2015
What is MI? Motivational Interviewing is a person-centered counseling style for addressing the common problem of ambivalence about change. It is designed to strengthen an individual’s motivation for and movement toward a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person’s own reasons for change within an atmosphere of acceptance, collaboration,...

CODE Office Launches New Website

April 21, 2015
The Community Outreach, Dissemination, and Education (CODE) Office at the UNC Center for AIDS Research connects the UNC CFAR to local communities, to the media, to people living with HIV and their families, to students, to research partners and investigators, and to other universities and organizations across the country. The...

UNC & GSK Announce Partnership to Accelerate Search for HIV Cure

April 20, 2015
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and GSK (GlaxoSmithKline), a global research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare company, have joined forces to create an HIV Cure center and a jointly owned company that will focus on discovering a cure for HIV/AIDS. This partnership between the public and private sector is part...