Physicians from Brown University travel to Ghana for an HIV symposium in April.
The HIVVisiting Ghana/AIDS pandemic in Africa is a pervasive issue. Those who are fortunate enough to be healthy are still participants in a society carrying a heavy and awful burden. Advancing medical education in Africa is not only important to improving health care, but also to brightening the continent's economic future. Brown is leading an effort to help.
This joint collaboration is with the Brown University Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and HIV health and service providers in Ukraine through the support of the Elena Pinchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation. This collaboration engages the resources of Brown University to work with Ukrainian health providers to address the challenges of the HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) epidemics for children, women and their family members in Ukraine.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]  Quitting smoking is certainly healthy for the body, but doctors and scientists haven’t been sure whether quitting makes people happier, especially since conventional wisdom says many smokers use cigarettes to ease anxiety and depression. In a new study, researchers tracked the symptoms of depression in people who were trying to quit and found that they were never happier than when they were being successful, for however long that was.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]  The David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University presents Faculty Triennial 2010 from Friday, Dec. 3, 2010, through Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011, featuring the work of 24 faculty artists from five departments, the largest faculty exhibition ever at Brown. The exhibition represents artists from the departments of Visual Art, Modern Culture and Media, and Theater Arts and Performance Studies, as well as the Literary Arts Program and Multimedia and Electronic Experiments (MEME).
