AIDS at 25
A blog about the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto, August 13-18, 2006.
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A blog about the 16th International AIDS Conference, Toronto, Canada, August 13-18, 2006.
Recent Posts
- One more "don't miss" post
- "Scaling up"
- My thoughts on the conference
- AIDS discussions elsewhere on ScienceBlogs
- Did they deliver?
- He said what? The closing session in soundbites.
- Prominent AIDS activist arrested in South Africa
- HIV and herpes--a particularly deadly combination
- No Health Workers = No Development
- O Leaders, where art thou?
Recent Comments
- suirauqa on The Promise and Peril of Circumcision
- Robster on AIDS denialism kills
- Robster on Advice that defies all logic.
- Warren on The Promise and Peril of Circumcision
- Shelley Batts on AIDS denialism kills
- Left_Wing_Fox on A tale of trappin-2
- jspreen on AIDS denialism kills
- Dior on Why doesn't everyone who's HIV-positive develop AIDS?
- Hannah on AIDS denialism kills
- Scott on HPV awareness and HIV prevention
Archives
Blogroll
- XIV International AIDS Conference Official Site
- International AIDS Society
- The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
- Canadian AIDS Society
- The Global Network of People Living With HIV/AIDS (GNP+)
- The International Community of Women Living With HIV/AIDS (ICW)
- The International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO)
- AIDS.org
- AIDS on Wikipedia
- POZ: Health, Life, and HIV
- AIDSmeds.com
- National AIDS Control Program, Tanzania
- World Community Grid
- Aetiology
- Hannah Hoag
Other Information
AIDS at 25: Special coverage on seedmagazine.com
About
Lindsay Borthwick earned a master's degree in neuroscience from McGill University in Montreal before completing a degree in science journalism at Ryerson University, where she was awarded a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Graduate Science Writer Scholarship in her second year. She joined Seed in Montreal and moved with the company to New York City; she now works for Seed as a Special Projects Editor. She lives in Toronto.
Hannah Hoag is a Montreal-based journalist specializing in science and medicine. She holds a B.Sc. degree in life sciences from Queen's University in Ontario, a M.Sc. in biology from McGill University, and a M.Sc. in science journalism from the Knight Center for Science and Medical Journalism at Boston University. Hannah has written for a variety of magazines and newspapers including Discover, New Scientist, Hour, Seed, Nature Jobs, The Montreal Gazette, the Literary Review of Canada, Canadian Geographic, and Nature Medicine.
Tara C. Smith is currently an assistant professor of Epidemiology in Iowa. Born and raised in Findlay, Ohio, Tara received her B.S. in Biology from Yale University in 1998. A "temporary" stint as a technician led to a Ph.D. in microbial pathogenesis and virulence factor regulation in Streptococcus pyogenes (group A streptococcus) at the Medical University of Ohio in Toledo. She completed post-doctoral training in molecular epidemiology at the University of Michigan. Her current research centers on investigation of hypervariable proteins in the group B streptococcus, S. agalactiae. Other current projects involve studying the epidemiology and molecular biology of E. coli, Streptococcus suis, and influenza. Additional interests include microbial ecology, emerging diseases, zoonoses, and infectious causes of chronic disease.
