The Forgotten Epidemic: HIV/AIDS in Women and Children

When
Thu Feb 26, 2015
Where
UCSF Library
Time
4 pm - 5:20 pm
Cost
Free
Tags
Lectures, Education, Libraries

Description

Join Arthur Ammann, M.D. as he discusses the global impact of HIV/AIDS in women and children. The scientific advances in HIV/AIDS that occurred over the next two decades were remarkable resulting in the near eradication of HIV in infants in the US and transforming an acute and fatal infection in adults to a chronic and manageable one. But even as these advances occurred benefiting many millions of people worldwide, women and children were too often excluded, resulting in a global epidemic that is now composed of over 50% women and children and a secondary epidemic of AIDS-related orphans that numbers in the tens of millions.

Arthur J. Ammann, M.D. is a founder of Global Strategies, a nonprofit organization that serves women and children in the most neglected areas of the world and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF.

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Link
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Call
415-476-2336
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  1. UCSF Library
    530 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA