ARI Launches New International Program That Will Focus On Global HIV/AIDS Issues.News Editors/Health & Medical Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BW HealthWire)--April 25, 2000 The UC San Francisco AIDS Research Institute is launching a new international program that will focus on stemming the worldwide HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome epidemic. Directed by Nancy Padian, MPH, PhD, a UCSF UCSF University of California at San Francisco AIDS researcher widely recognized for major epidemiological studies on HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. and STD (Subscriber Trunk Dialing) Long distance dialing outside of the U.S. that does not require operator intervention. STD prefix codes are required and billing is based on call units, which are a fixed amount of money in the currency of that country. transmission, the new UCSF ARI ARI Acute respiratory infection, see there International Research Program will collaborate with health professionals throughout the UC system and in various global sites on projects related to AIDS policy, education, prevention, testing, and treatment. The goal, according to Padian, is to build partnerships with researchers and institutions in other countries to work collaboratively to prevent HIV/AIDS. The program will be strongly linked to the Institute for Global Health-of UCSF and UC Berkeley and directed by Richard Feachem, PhD, DSc--bringing together the already extensive international efforts in the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Dentistry at UCSF, and the School of Public Health and other schools at UC Berkeley. The new program also will work to develop stronger ties with the San Francisco Department of Public Health on global HIV/AIDS issues. "San Francisco is one place where science, public health, communities, politics, and policies have worked together to provide innovation in science, prevention, and care. We want to work with investigators and public health officials in other parts of the world to help stem the tide Stem The Tide An attempt to stop a prevailing trend. Sometimes referred to as "stop the bleeding." Notes: If a stock is continually falling, stemming the tide would be an attempt to halt the free fall and change its direction. See also: Reversal, Trend of HIV/AIDS in those countries," said Thomas J. Coates, PhD, executive director of the UCSF ARI. Over the past 15 years, UCSF researchers have been involved in a number of AIDS-related activities in Africa, India, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, China, and Vietnam, and the international program will focus on strengthening and building on these efforts, Padian said. "We will look at AIDS as a global issue, but our emphasis will be on practical applications in developing countries because the populations in these areas have been devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. by HIV in disproportionate numbers to the rest of the world," she added. A member of the UCSF faculty since 1988, Padian has developed and directed a number of research studies on HIV and STDs in high-risk populations. She was one of the first investigators to study heterosexual transmission of HIV in the U.S. In the past few years, Padian has collaborated with the University of Zimbabwe The University of Zimbabwe (UZ), is the first and largest university in Zimbabwe. It was founded through a special relationship with the University of London and it opened its doors to its first students in 1952. on several projects related to female reproductive health and HIV/STD prevention. |
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