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National HIV Testing Day: June 27, 2017 Act Against AIDS According to Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, “Much progress has been made in HIV/AIDS research since the disease was first recognized in 1981.” Today, lifesaving antiretroviral therapies allow those living with HIV to enjoy longer, healthier lives—an outcome that once seemed unattainable.” To participate in the Department of Health and Human Service’s initiative,” Act Against AIDS” this year, access: |
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New Resources at NIH Ever wish someone would explain and walk you through applying for NIH grants step by step? Linked to NIH’s How to Apply page, you will find four new interactive tutorials on the basics of preparing, writing, and submitting your application. Tutorials take between 4 to 11 minutes each to listen through, and you can easily jump ahead to chapters of interest, or navigate back to review something you’ve missed. These tutorials links to additional resources, and transcripts. |
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Bridging Health Equity Across Communities Your health is influenced by the place you live April was celebrated as the National Minority Health Month and the Office of Minority Health, from the Department of Health and Human Services, released information that will help communities connect and discuss health equity topics. As minorities, it is a priority to work together to achieve good health for everyone. For more information go to: https://www.minorityhealth.hhs.gov/nmhm17/ |
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RCMI Infectious and Global Diseases Program Director collaborates with Citizen Scientists to develop an application to track mosquitoesIn a team effort to stop mosquitoes from spreading diseases Dr. Adelfa Serrano, Professor of the School of Medicine and Director of the RCMI Infectious and Global Diseases Laboratory at the UPR Medical Sciences Campus, joined an international team of twenty experts in epidemiology, entomology, public health, citizen science, and science and innovation with the aim of establishing an application for global tracking of mosquitoes. The group met for its first workshop on April 3- 4th 2017 at the United Nations Office, Geneva, Switzerland. |
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What is Health Equity?Why it is important to define it and how to achieve it The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in collaboration with the University of California at San Francisco, recently released a report on the importance of defining, addressing, and advocating for health equity. Good health must be reachable to all! Download full report here: http://www.rwjf.org/content/dam/farm/reports/reports/2017/rwjf436997 |
