By: Valentina Palm / Asst. News Director Dr. Patria Rojas assigned Latina farmworkers in Homestead to examine their naked bodies in the mirror for homework. Three years later, her HIV and sexual education intervention proved to be successful and will be replicated for males. “Some of these women, didn’t know they had a urethra […]
Robert Solomon / Contributing Writer The World AIDS Day is a nationally recognized day that commemorates and raises awareness about the AIDS syndrome caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Each year, FIU hosts an event on Tuesday, Dec. 1 to raise awareness about AIDS in the community and last year happened to grab the […]
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 small intestine caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The outbreak was traced to two food distribution centres, where since then, corrective measures were taken to combat the disease. Since then, […]
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 a new way for the anti-HIV drug azidothymidine triphosphate to enter the body, specifically through the brain. The discovery has been made by Madhavan Nair, a professor and chair of […]
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 he considered, the lack of local reporting of the issue in south Florida, even though the region had seen a troubling uptick in new cases. “There are multiple reasons why […]
