There are so many amazing events happening this year in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area to commemorate World AIDS Day. Please make sure you support any or all of these events with 2BeatHIV and our community partners!
Join Us for the 2nd Annual HIV Cure Research Day on December 14! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kimberly Knight Kmk0705@ad.unc.edu Allison Mathews amathews@email.unc.edu DURHAM, NC — The Durham County Board of Commissioners and the state of North … Continued
Researchers leading the 2BeatHIV study need your help in designing a crowdsourcing contest. Your participation in the focus groups will provide you with the opportunity to collaboratively design the next crowdsourcing contest. The aim of the crowdsourcing contest will be … Continued
Hey folks! Check out this podcast with UNC Department of Medicine’s Chair, Dr. Falk. He interviews six prominent HIV researchers at UNC who are doing groundbreaking work to curb the epidemic. http://go.unc.edu/hiv-matters-podcast The series features: Christopher Hurt talking … Continued
World Diabetes Day – Lourdes Laguna (32) talks self-care while living with diabetes It’s November! For other women, that may signify pumpkin spiced lattes, fall jackets and endless preparations … Continued
Join Us for the 2nd Annual HIV Cure Research Day on December 14! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kimberly Knight Kmk0705@ad.unc.edu Allison Mathews amathews@email.unc.edu DURHAM, NC — The Durham County Board of Commissioners and the state of North … Continued
Community Engagement Improves STD Testing and Treatment in Asia by Allison Mathews Researchers, policy-makers, physicians and students convened for the 2017 UNC-South China International Summit for STD Prevention and Control and Expert Consultation on Advancing Implementation Research on Syphilis, … Continued
We have over 250 submissions so far! We recruited at HBCU football games to make sure we had a diverse group of contestants. We will announce the winners at HIV Cure Research Day Festivities on December 14, 2017 at Eastway … Continued
Last year, we interviewed Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is the Director of the NIH National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease, at the “Towards an HIV Cure Symposium” as a part of the International AIDS Society Meeting in Durban, South … Continued
It was great to have dinner with our PIs (bosses), Joe and Stuart, and say thank you to our community advocates! Joe, Director of UNC’s Project China, traveled from China and Stuart, Prof in Social Medicine, came from Kenya, so … Continued
Join Us for the 2nd Annual HIV Cure Research Day on December 14! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kimberly Knight Kmk0705@ad.unc.edu Allison Mathews amathews@email.unc.edu DURHAM, NC — The Durham County Board of Commissioners and the state of North … Continued
Angela Vick-Lewis never thought she was at risk for contracting HIV. Free HIV testing was offered during her church’s New Year’s Eve party in 2006, and she thought nothing of taking the quick test. “My son and I both took … Continued
@2BeatHIV November 1, 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kimberly Knight, 2BeatHIV UNC Chapel Hill, Institute for Global Health & Infectious Disease kmk0705@email.unc.edu 2BeatHIV celebrates the official Proclamation of HIV Cure Research Day on Tuesday, December 13th. … Continued
Kimberly Knight kicks off her 3rd annual “Red is the New Black” HIV awareness college tour! Her first stop is in her hometown of Wilson, NC at Wilson Community College! This event is free and open to the public, so … Continued
2BeatHIV is excited to have our very own Dr. Mathews speaking in Hampton, VA to honor our “Pitch Perfect” contest winners on Saturday, October 1st from 12:00pm to 3:00pm. These phenomenal women from Hampton University School of Pharmacy are making their idea … Continued
“The IAS 2016 meeting was held in Durban, South Africa in July 2016. The IAS 2016 Towards an HIV Cure Research Symposium included a social sciences panel for the first time and the main conference featured talks on HIV cure … Continued
At the Carolina Theatre last Saturday, 21 speakers unleashed captivating ideas, stories and missions meant to solve problems in each of their domains. But there was a common thread at the inaugural TEDxDurham—a collective appreciation for Durham and a dedication towards advancing … Continued
It was an honor to meet with the South African HIV cure team while in Edinburgh, Scotland for the International Association of Bioethics Meeting. We discussed how they could apply the same principles of crowdsourcing contests to improve community engagement … Continued
Check out our video featuring the #RedistheNewBlack fashion show at North Carolina Central University with celebrity host, Sheryl Lee Ralph! Organized by the Lux Blog NC and 2BeatHIV, sponsored by UNC Center for AIDS Research, Institute for Global Health and … Continued
Be sure to tune in to Black Issues Forum on UNC-TV this Sunday, July 10 at 11:30AM to see our feature + sit down interviews with Deborah Holt Noel, Dr. Allison Mathews, Dr. Ada Adimora, and Ms. Bridgette Luckey.
#RedistheNewBlack fashion show 6/4 Nccu hosted by: @thesherylralph https://youtu.be/-7_JVue8PyA with 2beathiv The Lux Blog NC This event is free with registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/red-is-the-new-black-fashion-s… Vendor Registration: http://goo.gl/forms/EzmZtsOzAi Volunteer Registration: http://goo.gl/forms/1vwCPLlTxz Press Credential Application: http://goo.gl/forms/5wi6P1ITgn
This UNC Researcher’s Startup Project is Crowdsourcing a Cure for HIV Durham is known for being a hub for entrepreneurship, but it’s not as well known that Durham County has one of the largest populations of HIV-positive people in the … Continued
Durham When Gordon Thomas first learned he was HIV positive, he was told he would live two years. He lived in Elizabethtown with his family, who like many at the time feared they would catch the infection. So he ate … Continued
On May 7, 2016 Dr. Allison Mathews will celebrate her graduation from the UNC Department of Sociology and current position at the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Disease and the Department of Social Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill. Join Dr. … Continued
