FIU Researcher Helps Prevent HIV And AIDS In Rural South Florida
By: Valentina Palm / Asst. News Director Dr. Patria Rojas assigned Latina farmworkers in Homestead to examine their naked bodies in the mirror for…
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University hosts World AIDS Day
The University celebrates World AIDS Day Tuesday, Dec. 1 at the Biscayne Bay Campus Panther Square.
Put a ribbon on it
Robert Solomon / Contributing Writer The World AIDS Day is a nationally recognized day that commemorates and raises awareness about the AIDS syndrome caused by…
Health Services celebrates national health week with sexual virus lectures
In preparation for it, the University’s Student Health Services is planning five themed days to educate the community on different aspects of their health.
University partnership to promote HIV/AIDS awareness
The Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration offered a grant to FIU-BRIDGE, one that would go towards a project promoting health as well as substance abuse, HIV and Hepatitis C prevention.
Health symposium targets Cubans
In the summer of 2012, the Pan American Health Organization and Cuban health authorities reported more than 700 cases of cholera, an infection of the…
University celebrates World AIDS Day by hosting HIV resource fair
SHS will be hosting a resource fair with free HIV testing in the ballrooms at Biscayne Bay Campus on Dec. 3 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will also be a tabling event outside of Green Library at Modesto Maidique Campus on Dec. 3 from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Professors and students discover new way to deliver HIV drug to the brain
Photo By Maggie Bartlett, NHGRI [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. Aaron Pabon//Staff Writer Two University researchers with the assistance of two graduate students have developed…
Media coverage of HIV/AIDS on steady decline
Katherine Lepri/ Staff Writer Five years ago, Allan Richards assigned his undergraduate students to monitor media coverage of HIV/AIDS. He was subsequently shocked by, what…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ‘We should all have the common interest in…debunking myths of HIV’
“HIV does not discriminate. We must first fight together to combat this disease and get more people to know their status.”
