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Hiv/aids
HIV/AIDS
Declines fall short of goals
Published May 9, 2016
Study: HIV infection, transmission rates have dropped since 2010 but do not meet goals / School of Public Health
An organ transplant first
Published March 31, 2016
Hopkins performs first HIV-positive to HIV-positive organ transplants in U.S. / The Baltimore Sun
HIV/AIDS
The 'Charlie Sheen Effect'
Published Feb 22, 2016 Video
Study author: Actor's announcement 'potentially the most significant domestic HIV prevention event ever'
New hope for HIV-positive transplant recipients
Published Feb 8, 2016
Johns Hopkins approved to perform first HIV-positive to HIV-positive organ transplants in U.S.
Commentary
HIV lessons from the Mississippi baby
Published Aug 28, 2014
Child's relapse, 2 similar cases pave way to future cure efforts, experts say
'Gut punch'
Child thought to have been cured of HIV remains infected
Published July 11, 2014
2013 NEJM article about apparent cure was authored by Deborah Persaud, associate professor at Johns Hopkins Children's Center / The New York Times
Nursing adds HIV curriculum
Published Feb 25, 2014
Specialized training module designed to put nurse practitioners at forefront of HIV care / School of Nursing
Delaying HIV treatment
Published Feb 11, 2014
Nearly half of HIV-infected teens put off treatment, study finds, increasing risk of long-term complications / Hopkins Medicine
Deborah Persaud
Chasing a cure
A discovery that mattered
Published Dec 23, 2013
Hopkins virologist on 'Nature' list of 10 people who mattered in 2013 for role in finding 'functional cure' for HIV-infected infant / Nature
HOPE for waiting list
Published Dec 3, 2013
JHU research helps overturn decades-old ban on transplanting HIV-infected organs / Hopkins Medicine