World AIDS Day Events
For Immediate Release: November 22, 2006
Contact: Alisa Giardinelli
(610) 690-5717
http://www.swarthmore.edu/news/
World AIDS Day Events at Swarthmore
Swarthmore is hosting a series of events in the days leading up to World AIDS Day on Fri., Dec. 1.
Tues., Nov. 28
Bonnez will provide a general overview of the virus, the causative agents of uterine cervical cancer, genital warts, and other diseases. He will discuss the frequency and economic burden of these conditions, how the virus is transmitted, the natural history of infection, and current methods utilized for prevention and treatment. |
Rose will describe the development, from the laboratory bench to the clinical world, of the recently approved HPV virus-like particle vaccine that has demonstrated efficacy in preventing the precursor lesions of cervical cancer and other genital cancers, as well as genital warts, in women. |
Wed., Nov. 29
| Christopher Coleman, assistant professor of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss his research with HIV-infected heterosexual men and African American men who have sex with men at 4:15 p.m. in the Scheuer Room. An open house and dinner will immediately follow in the Black Cultural Center. |
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Thurs., Nov. 30
Worth Health Center Director Linda Echols will lead an information session on the HPV virus and vaccine at 7 p.m. in Kohlberg 226. |