A FRESH approach: Combining basic science and social good

Thumbi Ndung'u; Krista L Dong; Douglas S Kwon; Bruce D Walker

doi:10.1126/sciimmunol.aau2798

A FRESH approach: Combining basic science and social good

Sci Immunol. 2018 Sep 14;3(27):eaau2798. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.aau2798.

Authors

Thumbi Ndung'u^{1

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3

4}, Krista L Dong^{1

2

3

4}, Douglas S Kwon^{1

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3

4}, Bruce D Walker^{1

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3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Thumbi Ndung'u is a professor and the scientific director of the HIV Pathogenesis Programme and Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), and an investigator at the Africa Health Research Institute, Durban 4001, South Africa; an investigator at the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; and a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany.
² Krista L. Dong is a lecturer at Harvard Medical School; an assistant in Immunology at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; and a lecturer in the Infectious Disease Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
³ Douglas S. Kwon is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, Boston MA 021145, USA; a group leader at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; and an associate physician in the Infectious Disease Division, MGH, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
⁴ Bruce D. Walker is the director of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; an adjunct professor at the HIV Pathogenesis Programme and the Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, UKZN, and an associate of the Center for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban 4001, South Africa; a physician in the Infectious Disease Division, MGH, Boston, MA 02114, USA; a professor in the Institute for Medical Sciences and Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA. Email: bwalker@mgh.harvard.edu.

Abstract

A program to study HIV infection is empowering African women.

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Cohort Studies
Female
HIV Infections / drug therapy
HIV Infections / prevention & control*
HIV Infections / transmission
HIV Infections / virology
Health Education
Humans
Peer Group
Poverty / prevention & control*
Power, Psychological
Sociological Factors
South Africa
Viremia / drug therapy
Viremia / immunology
Young Adult

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding