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UNC CFAR Developmental awardee Katryna McCoy has been focusing her research on interventions for HIV disparities in North Carolina. HIV transmission is notably higher among racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S., with Black communities disproportionately affected. Despite comprising only 12 percent of the population, Black individuals represented 37 percent of...

Michelle Floris-Moore, MD, MS delivered the Norma Berryhill Distinguished Lecture, on 20th June 2024, in honor of the late Ada Adimora, MD, MPH. Dr. Floris-Moore started by sharing insights into why Dr. Adimora  dedicated her career to addressing HIV disparities. Dr. Adimora was motivated by her early exposure to the disparities...

Recently, UNC Research sat down with UNC CFAR Social and Behavorial Core Co-Director Dr. Vivian Go, PhD, and UNC CFAR Developmental Core Co-Director Dr. Bill Miller, MD, PhD. They are leading several clinical trials in Vietnam aimed at preventing HIV transmission and providing comprehensive support for individuals affected by the...

Guochun Jiang, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics and member of the UNC HIV Cure Center, received an R01 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for his project “Defining the HIV reservoir and latency mechanism in human brain myeloid cells” which is funded for five years and...

The Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) took place this year in Denver Colorado on March 3-6. This conference is used to provide a forum for basic scientists and clinical investigators to present, discuss, and critique their investigations into the epidemiology and biology of human retroviruses and associated diseases....

The Social & Behavioral Sciences (SBS) Cores of UNC and Duke CFARs co-hosted an exciting in person Spring 2024 Networking Event. The event, “Untangling the Quagmire of Stigma,” explored how best to use stigma assessment to identify effective stigma reduction interventions. With over sixty-five attendees and held at Duke University’s...

Dr. Tiffany Breger attended the 27th Annual CFAR Meeting as an Early-Stage Investigator scholarship recipient at which she presented her research on statin uptake among participants in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study and Women’s Interagency HIV Study. Among nearly 1700 men and women indicated for statin treatment between 2014 and 2018...

It is with heavy hearts that we share the passing of UNC CFAR’s Co-Director, Ada Adimora, Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicine and professor of epidemiology. Dr. Adimora, a brilliant and compassionate physician scientist, left an indelible mark in our program, department, and the broader medical community. Dr. Adimora...

UNC-Chapel Hill was recently named a National HIV Residency Pathway Consortium Site and awarded a year-long, $68,000 grant to support its efforts in training family medicine and internal medicine residents in caring for people with HIV. UNC’s site Investigators, Rick Moore, MD, and Louise Rambo King, MD, have a storied...

This article has been reposted from UNC’s Institute of Global Health and Infectious Disease website. To see the full article, please click here.   1) What is CFAR? Swanstrom: “UNC CFAR is one of 19 NIH Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR) programs across the US that promote high quality AIDS...