{"id":278,"date":"2011-11-01T13:08:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T21:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/globalhealth\/?p=278"},"modified":"2011-11-01T13:18:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T21:18:19","slug":"new-hope-for-hiv-prevention-nov-7-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/globalhealth\/2011\/11\/01\/new-hope-for-hiv-prevention-nov-7-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"New hope for HIV prevention: Achievements and Challenges of Research in South Africa &#8211; Nov 7, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/accessible-science.org\" target=\"_blank\">Accessible Science Initiative<\/a> will be hosting a Lecture Series entitled, \u201c<strong>Science without Borders<\/strong>\u201d. The main aim of these lectures is to highlight and increase awareness of scientists in the developing world who have demonstrated high quality research. Scientists will give a presentation about their work, as well as their extensive achievements and the challenges they have encountered in their countries.<\/p>\n<p>The ASI is pleased to introduce the first speaker:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Salim S. Abdool Karim<\/strong> (From South Africa) pro vice-chancellor (Research), University of KwaZulu-Natal; Director of Center for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa; &amp; Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Columbia University.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday, November 7 , 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Life Science Building, LSC 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>12:30 pm \u2013 1:30 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>These lectures are brought to you thanks to the kind support from the Microbiology and Immunology Dept, The Neglected Global Disease Initiative and the VP-Research Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Accessible Science Initiative will be hosting a Lecture Series entitled, \u201cScience without Borders\u201d. The main aim of these lectures is to highlight and increase awareness of scientists in the developing world who have demonstrated high quality research. Scientists will give a presentation about their work, as well as their extensive achievements and the challenges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/globalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/globalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/globalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/globalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/globalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/globalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/globalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/globalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/globalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/globalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}