Blogposts

Matoke and Malaria II

July 15th, 2009

Second week in Uganda including observing a community meeting on malaria awareness and bed net coupon distribution and collecting antimalarial drugs for testing.

Why we can’t (yet) cure HIV

July 11th, 2009

We all know that there is not yet a cure for HIV. Why is it, though, that the complex drug cocktails that HIV patients take fail to cure the disease? One answer is that HIV can exist in latent reservoirs in the body that are not affected by antiviral drugs. Current research on HIV latency and ways to eliminate latent virus may finally provide a way to cure HIV.

Matoke and Malaria

July 9th, 2009

First week of malaria policy and antimalarial quality research in Nkozi Sub-county, Uganda. My first time south of the equator, eating matoke, and riding a bodaboda.


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