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Shah Receives Dr. David Glasser Memorial Award for TB Control in Maryland

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2018-04-27

Award recognizes significant contributions to TB prevention & control in MD.

World Tuberculosis (TB) Day Recognized with Community Event at BJGMC

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2018-04-17

This year's themes: Maintaining healthy nutrition, addressing mental health challenges, and the latest in TB research.

Tornheim Receives W. Leigh Thompson Excellence in Research Award

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2018-03-21

Jeff Tornheim's research on drug-resistant tuberculosis in India garners high honors from Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine.

CCGHE at CROI 2018

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2018-03-05

Check out where and when CCGHE presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. One Month of Rifapentine/Isoniazid to Prevent TB In People With HIV: Brief-TB/A5279 Swindells S, Ramchandani R, Gupta A, Benson CA, Leon-Cruz JT, Omoz-Oarhe A, Juste MAJ, Lama JR, Valencia JA,...

2017 Year in Review

Post Date:

2018-02-19

What a year! Our 2017 Year In Review outlines the most ambitious 365 days we’ve had to date.

Uniting for a Healthier India

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2018-02-14

"The Indo-US clinical research & education partnership started with a single NIH grant to study maternal-infant HIV transmission." Now with 76 studies underway, this short film chronicles the history & impact of our work in India.

World AIDS Day: BJGMC Team Offers Community Counseling and Preventive Care

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2017-12-21

150 people participated in a non-communicable diseases awareness camp for people in Pune, India, living with HIV.

CCGHE Joins 12-Country UNITAID Effort to Control TB

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2017-11-08

Shorter course to prevent progression of latent TB to active disease is the aim of the effort.

CCGHE at the Union 2017

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2017-10-05

The 2017 Union Conference was in Guadalajaro, Mexico, October 11-14, and Indo-JHU research was well represented.

ID Clinical Minute is Back and Offering CME Credit!

Post Date:

2017-10-03

Issues will be published bimonthly and CME will be available through ACCME

Tornheim Promoted to Assistant Professor

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2017-08-31

His research explores whether 2 MDR-TB drug susceptibility tests using WGS & MIC can yield options for individualized treament.

Indo-Hopkins Partnership Seeks Causes of Sepsis in the NICU

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2017-08-10

Sepsis among newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is a big problem in India, and a complex one to untangle.

Vidya Mave Promoted to Assistant Professor

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2017-06-06

Dr. Vidya Mave oversees clinical research & visiting researchers in India, including students conducting global health field studies

CCGHE at ATS 2017

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2017-05-08

Abstract presentations from the American Thoracic Society International Conference in Washington, DC

Amita Gupta and colleagues discuss female leadership in academic global health

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2017-05-04

Drs. Gupta, Manabe, Mathad discuss need for more women in global health leadership at CUGH's annual meeting.

Women's Empowerment at BJGMC World TB Day 2017

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2017-04-03

Posted 2017-04-03

Health on the Go: Mobile Clinic Delivers TB Services at Point of Need

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2017-03-24

Thanks to Raj and Bharti Shah, CTIS, & the NB Shah Charitable Trust, we are able to reach more people in Maharashtra who need care

CCGHE at CROI 2017

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2017-02-02

Inflammation biomarkers, hepatoxicity during ART and IRT, TB treatment adherence--just some of the abstracts presented at CROI

2017 Directors' Statement

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2017-01-31

A New Decade of Global Health Impact The CCGHE recently marked its 10-year anniversary, and it’s an occasion that affords an opportunity to reflect on the progress we’ve made so far, and envision what lies ahead. We are encouraged by the changes we’ve seen in health outcomes for people living with...

Global Impact Report

Post Date:

2017-01-31

Learn about CCGHE's work to improve infectious disease prevention & treatment around the world.

Cutting off immigrants from public benefits means American children will pay the price

Post Date:

2018-09-28

Source:

The Baltimore Sun

Dr. Kathleen Page's OpEd in The Baltimore Sun discusses ripple effects that cuts in benefits to immigrants mean for American kids.

Perspectives: How can we improve mental health services for people living with HIV in the Asia-Pacific?

Post Date:

2018-09-19

Source:

amFAR

People living with HIV are known to have higher rates of mental health issues, which can worsen their quality of life and affect adherence to HIV treatment.

Doctor who tackled HIV and other infectious diseases in India honored

Post Date:

2018-09-11

Source:

India Abroad

India Abroad article highlights the dedication of the Raj and Kamla Gupta Professorship in Infectious Diseases.

Amita Gupta and Sujata Bhatia: Doing a World of Good

Post Date:

2018-08-29

Source:

American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Amita Gupta is interviewed by AIChE about the intersection of chemical engineering and medicine.

$17M is awarded to support HIV, disease ecology, mHealth projects

Post Date:

2018-08-16

Source:

Global Health Matters

Larry Chang's Multidisciplinary Research Training to Understand and Reduce HIV Incidence in Uganda is among the funded projects.

Enhanced immigration enforcement in US could worsen HIV epidemic

Post Date:

2018-07-21

Source:

Infectious Disease News (via Healio)

Kathleen Page: Immigrants living in fear of deportation often limit the use of services that they believe could expose them to authorities.

Infectious Diseases Can Be Tackled, Here are 3 Solutions

Post Date:

2018-05-09

Source:

The Hill

Bob Bollinger: Quick delivery of care to sick patients eases the human impact and lowers the cost of disease.

Isoniazid preventive therapy: do the risks outweigh the benefits in pregnant women with HIV?

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2018-03-13

Source:

aidsmap

. . . Isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) during and after pregnancy in women living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy (ART) in tuberculosis (TB) endemic areas in Africa, Asia and Haiti resulted in serious adverse events quite possibly attributable to isoniazid with no significant reduction in TB...

Adverse pregnancy outcomes with isoniazid preventive therapy in HIV

Post Date:

2018-03-09

Source:

Infectious Disease Advisor

. . . The safety of IPT in pregnant women with HIV is unknown, especially with regard to its combination with highly active antiretroviral therapy (ART). Amita Gupta, MD, deputy director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Clinical Global Health Education at the Johns Hopkins...

No difference in safety for HIV+ pregnant women deferring TB Tx

Post Date:

2018-03-09

Source:

MedPage Today

First randomized clinical trail of IPT in pregnant and postpartum women may suggest need for WHO guideline change.

Preventive TB therapy during pregnancy causes excessive adverse events

Post Date:

2018-03-08

Source:

Healio Infectious Disease News

. . . “Identifying ways to prevent TB during pregnancy and the postpartum period is a really important way to address maternal and infant health for a globally important disease such as tuberculosis,” Amita Gupta, MD, MHS, associate professor of medicine and international health and deputy director...