The Latest News from VIGH

Vanderbilt at CROI 2016

Vanderbilt faculty from across campus will have a strong presence at the 2016 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI). In particular, VIGH core faculty Muktar Aliyu M.D., M.P.H., Dr.P.H and Kate Clouse Ph.D., M.P.H. and VIGH affiliated faculty will be presenting their work on optimizing the PMTCT cascade. See more details about their work and other Vanderbilt researchers below:

ID Grand Rounds: August/September

Thursday – 12:00pm to 1:00 pm Presented in A-2200 of Medical Center North (MCN) with Video Teleconferencing (VTC) to the 5th Floor Conference Room at 100 Oaks. August 14 W. David Hardy, MD Clinical Professor of Medicine David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA “HIV and Reproductive Health” September 4 Sten Vermund, MD Amos Christie Chair and Professor of Pediatrics Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health “Circumcision for HIV prevention: where are we and where do we need to go?”

VIGH researchers receive grant to study family-focused approach to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission

Researchers at the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) recently received a two-year, $895,072 grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study whether an integrated, family-focused approach can prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV—the AIDS virus—in Nigeria.

University of Zambia and VIGH collaborate to build research capacity in Zambia

Dr. Sten Vermund, VIGH Director, began involvement in Zambia after attending a research needs assessment conference in 1998. Dr. Vermund co-chaired the HIV Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Working Group with Dr. Chewe Luo and in 2000 he co-founded the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) located in Lusaka.

IeDEA Network at AIDS 2012

AIDS 2012 IeDEA and Euro-Coord Satellite SessionThe Translational Power of Collaboration: Harnessing Large Datasets to Understand the HIV/AIDS Epidemic and to Opimize Care and Treatment Monday, July 23 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Visit the IeDEA.org website for more information. The following exhibitions will showcase work from the IeDEA global network and will be presented at the International AIDS Society AIDS 2012 Conference in Washington, D.C.