Thirty years after AIDS was first reported, the United Nations
will meet today to discuss next-steps toward controlling the
disease. Developing countries in Africa are still the hardest
hit by AIDS, but progress is being made through the framework of
the Millennium Development Goals, which calls for a reversal of
the spread of HIV/AIDS in [...] Collecting data is difficult.
Collecting data in low resource settings is even more difficult.
In my epidemiology courses, I have the luxury of generating
correlation coefficients and p-values with cleaned, robust data
sets. I was oblivious, however, to the process of getting
information into this organized and beautifully coded package.
That is until I was [...] By Casey Iiams-Hauser and Yanis Ben
Amor HIV infection in children occurs most often during
pregnancy and labor or post-natally during breastfeeding. While
new HIV infections among children have declined since 2002, a
staggering 430,000 children were infected in 2008… In Ruhiira,
Uganda, one of 14 clusters of