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The CDC granted $2 million to a multi-disciplinary team of Georgetown researchers to develop new HIV surveillance techniques.

CDC Grants $2 Million for HIV Research

By Grey Rosenzweig September 7, 2018

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded a $2 million grant to Georgetown researchers to continue HIV surveillance and to develop a secure data-sharing tool for public health...

Georgetown Receives NIH Grant to Continue Working to Find Cure for HIV/AIDS

By Tala al Rajjal July 26, 2016

Georgetown is among 18 institutions awarded a $28 million grant from the National Institute of Health for the BELIEVE project, an effort led by researchers from The George Washington University to discover...

KIE Receives HIV Research Grant

By Gaia Mattiace October 16, 2015

The Kennedy Institute of Ethics received part of a $3.6 million grant from the National Institute of Health to fund a joint study on the ethical concerns with conducting research on pregnant women with...

Persistent HIV Epidemic Prompts New Partnership

By Lucy Prout February 20, 2015

Although HIV rates in Washington, D.C., have steadily declined since 2008, above-average rates continue to persist throughout the District, leading to renewed efforts by city officials and organizations...

As US HIV Rates Steady, DC Stays on Top of List

By Natalie LaRue October 21, 2014

Data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month revealed that 1.1 million people in the United States are currently living with HIV, with the number of new infections remaining...

District Sees HIV Drop-Off

By Sam Abrams October 1, 2013

The District of Columbia, which has historically had the highest rate of HIV/AIDS in the United States, has seen a 46 percent drop in the rate of infection between 2007 and 2011 from 3.2 percent to 2.4...

Law School Scholar to Head AIDS Fund

By Hiromi Oka November 23, 2012

Ambassador Mark Dybul (COL ’85, MED ’92), co-director of and distinguished scholar at Georgetown University Law Center’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, was appointed executive...

Forward Thinking Fashion for a Cause

By Emily Manbeck September 19, 2012

For the Georgetown community, it is not uncommon to hear that students intern, work paid jobs or start up their own projects and initiatives. For Ifedayo Bethel-Sears (COL ’13), exposure to the fashion...

From Darkness to Light

By Keeley Williams January 19, 2012

Christine Nankinga is a child of Uganda. Like any child, Christine beams with all the hope and wonder of tomorrow. But as a child of Uganda, Christine deals with the consequences of an epidemic that...

GU Reaches Out Amid District AIDS Epidemic

By Sarah Amos December 5, 2011

At an infection rate of 3.2 percent, HIV/AIDS levels in the District exceed the World Health Organization's classification of an epidemic and rival the rates found in developing countries. The Georgetown...

Campus Spotlight // 2.11.11

By Katrina Koser February 11, 2011

The Hoyas Global Initiative began as a promise. Several Georgetown students, now alumni, made a commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative to start a club on campus that followed CGI's model — that...

D.C. Sees AIDS Cases Decrease

By Claire Hardwick March 26, 2010

D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and the Department of Health Officials published a report on March 17 that shows, for the first time, a decrease in new AIDS cases in the District. "There is evidence that our...

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