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World AIDS Day, December 1: 捆绑SM社区/MUHC experts

World AIDS Day is observed on December 1 every year, reminding us that the fight against the AIDS pandemic is far from over. More than 36 million people have died since it emerged in the early 1980s. Today, 35.3 million people around the world are living with the virus, including 71,000 in Canada. Every day, 6,800 people are infected.

Here is a list of experts from 捆绑SM社区, the 捆绑SM社区 Health Centre (MUHC) and the Lady Davis Institute of the Jewish General Hospital available for comment on your stories for World AIDS Day:

Published: 27 November 2014

Nicole Bernard, Researcher, Infection & Immunity, Research Institute of the MUHC
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, 捆绑SM社区
Expertise:
HIV resistance, genetics associated with protection from HIV infection, slow replication of HIV among people with protective genes.

Available for interviews in English and French.
nicole.bernard [at] mcgill.ca

Shelley Clark, Professor, Department of Sociology, 捆绑SM社区

Director, Centre on Population Dynamics

CRC, Youth, Gender and Global Health
Expertise:听social determinants of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa; HIV risks within marriage; adolescent transitions in high HIV contexts; couple dynamics and negotiation with respect to HIV

Available for interviews in English

shelley.clark [at] mcgill.ca

Julian Falutz, Director, HIV Metabolic Clinic, MUHC, Coordinator of Chronic Viral Illness Service, HIV and Aging Clinic, MUHC
Expertise: clinical care of HIV patients, teaching, clinical research.

Available for interviews in French and English

+available after Dec 1

julian.falutz [at] muhc.mcgill.ca

Nitika Pant Pai, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, 捆绑SM社区

Researcher, Infection & Immunity, Research Institute of the MUHC

Expertise: Self-testing strategies, screening strategies for HIV and co-infections, development of smart apps for self-testing, synergizing health, multiplexed testing in different at-risk populations, impact of oral testing and counseling in women in labor, simultaneous testing of pregnant women for co-infections.

Available for interviews in English

nitika.pai [at] mcgill.ca

Dr. Jean-Pierre Routy, Professor of Medicine, 捆绑SM社区,听Department of Medicine, Royal Victoria Hospital, Chronic Viral听Illness听Service and Division of Hematology

Expertise: HIV primary infection; vaccines, Kaposi鈥檚 sarcoma and lymphoma

Available for interviews in French and English

jean-pierre.routy [at] mcgill.ca

Mark Wainberg, Director, 捆绑SM社区 AIDS Centre

Professor, Medicine, and Microbiology and Immunology, 捆绑SM社区

Head of the HIV/AIDS research axis, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital

Past President of the International AIDS Society

Expertise: Development of anti-HIV drugs, HIV drug resistance, HIV vaccines

Available for interviews in French and English

mark.wainberg [at] mcgill.ca

On December 1, World AIDS Day, GAP-VIES, in collaboration with the MUHC, is organizing a dinner conference on the importance of prevention and screening in Montreal鈥檚 Haitian and African communities.


Le 1er d茅cembre, GAP-VIES organise un souper-conf茅rence pour souligner l鈥檌mportance de la pr茅vention et du d茅pistage aupr猫s des Communaut茅s ha茂tienne et africaine de Montr茅al en collaboration avec le CUSM.

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