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To prevent HIV, start online
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To prevent HIV, start online

A team led by José Bauermeister at Penn Nursing designed the My Desires & Expectations tool to address cognitive and emotional factors that influence sexual decision-making when seeking partners online.

Penn Today Staff

World AIDS Day: What’s happening with the epidemic today
SERO HIV/AIDS activists together The SERO Project, one of six community organizations featured in this year’s Day With(out) Art program at the Institute of Contemporary Art, is pictured at a workshop event earlier this year. The group advocates for people living with HIV and fights laws that criminalize sexual partners for non-disclosure of HIV status. (Photo courtesy: The Institute of Contemporary Art.)
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    • World AIDS Day: What’s happening with the epidemic today

    Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief of the Infectious Diseases Division Ian Frank explains progress made and challenges still faced in the world of HIV/AIDS research, prevention, and treatment.
    Simple solutions help children in Mexican orphanage fight infectious disease
    Alaina Hall, one of the 2018 President’s Engagement Prize winners and a School of Nursing senior.

    Alaina Hall, one of the 2018 President’s Engagement Prize winners and a School of Nursing senior. She is beginning her initiative, “Healthy Pequeños,” or “Healthy Little Ones,” at one of the homes of Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos orphanage, but has hopes it will expand to all 15 others within the organization. If that happens, she’ll reach nearly 3,200 children. 

    Simple solutions help children in Mexican orphanage fight infectious disease

    With the President’s Engagement Prize, senior Alaina Hall, is building a project she calls “Healthy Pequeños,” or “Healthy Little Ones,” which aims to help children in a Mexican orphanage fight infectious disease.