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Symposium on HIV and the right to healthcare at UPRRP

Submitted on 18 October 2016 - 11:22am

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The Center for Social Research from the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras (UPRRP) will be presenting a symposium centering around topics of migration, HIV and the right to healthcare on October 20, 2016 starting at 9:00 am in the #1 Amphiteather in the Faculty of Education.

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Searching for measures to prevent neurocognitive damage in HIV positive women

Submitted on 13 October 2016 - 1:39am

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Dr. Valerie Wojna, Professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus is collaborating with the University of Hawaii on a clinical study to test the effect of a drug that could counteract the neurocgonitive damage caused by HIV in puertorrican and hawaiian women.

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Use of Home tests help prevent HIV proliferation

Submitted on 12 October 2016 - 11:25pm

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A study implemented by the Medical Sciences Campus at the University of Puerto Rico in collaboration with Columbia University in New York, has positively impacted hundreds of gay men and transgender women through the distribution of more than one thousand home tests as a prevention method for the spread of HIV. 

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RUM graduate named presidential professor at UPenn

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José Arturo Bauermeister had been appointed as a Presidental Professor at UPenn, this position arises from the Action Plan for Faculty Diversity and Excellence that seks to recruit and retain professors with exceptional trayectories in order to promote Faculty diversity. Dr. Bauermeister graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Department of Social Sciences where he investigated the stigma associated with communities affected by HIV. 

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Efforts to develop an HIV vaccine in Puerto Rico

Submitted on 26 June 2016 - 1:36pm

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Recently, the Molecular Science Research Center at the University of Puerto Rico, begun a multisectorial effort directed at developing and manufacturing a vaccine against HIV. This effort is possible thanks to a collaboration between the academy, biotechnology industry and the federal and state goverment. 

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Valerie Wojna: Finding Healthcare Alternatives for HIV-Positive Women

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Dr. Valerie Wojna, center, with her NeuroAIDS Program colleagues.

Great advances in the management, prevention and treatment of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) have significantly reduced the mortality caused by this infection. However, the stigma around the disease remains, so there are groups of patients who are discriminated against when receiving medical care. Dr. Valerie Wojna, professor at the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico (MSC-UPR), seeks to improve the quality of life of one of these underserved groups: women with HIV.

First phase in HIV vaccine project is completed

Submitted on 17 April 2016 - 4:50pm

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Keila López Alicea

The University of Puerto Rico (UPR) is actively engaged in the race to develop a vaccine against HIV. In just 18 month, researchers from the Molecular Sciences Research Center at UPR have succesfully completed the first phase of a project to develop an HIV vaccine and are waiting for NIH aproval to begin the second phase. 

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UPR center leads important scientific research

Submitted on 2 December 2015 - 5:29pm

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The Research Center for Molecular Sciences (CICiM) at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) leads a very strong research science portfolio. The CICiM has received funding from several government agencies.

 

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Early antiretroviral therapy prevents complications in HIV patients

Submitted on 22 September 2015 - 11:52am

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A research study conducted by the Medical Sciences Campus at the University of Puerto Rico concludes that early antiretroviral therapy prevents complications in HIV patients.

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Verónica Tirado and the right sexual education

Submitted on 14 September 2015 - 10:54pm

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Verónica Tirado, reciepient of the Janice M. Epp fellowship under the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS) studies sexual education in Puerto Rico.

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