Week Four - February 20, 2016
Our focus this week will be:
- disease detective
- ways of spreading disease
- teens & HIV
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How Pandemics Spread
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Articles we discussed during our "roundtable"...
Why It's So Hard to Cure HIV/AIDS
***news since our Saturday discussion***
Vaginal Ring Somewhat Effective at Preventing HIV
A vaginal ring infused with an antiviral drug appears to offer protection against HIV infection, although not as much as doctors had predicted. Women who used the ring had a 27 percent lower risk of HIV infection than women who received a placebo, scientists reported February 22 in the New England Journal of Medicine.