{"id":53525,"date":"2016-11-29T15:56:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T01:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=53525"},"modified":"2020-03-13T15:36:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T01:36:36","slug":"world-aids-day-to-include-update-from-uh-hawaii-center-for-aids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/29\/world-aids-day-to-include-update-from-uh-hawaii-center-for-aids\/","title":{"rendered":"World AIDS<\/abbr> Day to include update from 东精影业<\/abbr> Hawai\u02bbi Center for AIDS<\/abbr>"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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An attendee at the 2015 Hawaiʻi<\/span> 2 Zero Conference<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Over the past five years approximatley 80 to 100 newly diagnosed cases of HIV<\/abbr> have been reported annually in Hawaiʻi<\/span>. On World AIDS<\/abbr> Day, December 1, the Hawaiʻi<\/span> Center for AIDS<\/abbr><\/a> will host the 2016 Update: Hawaiʻi<\/span> to Zero conference<\/a>, which will detail how the state might realize a Hawaiʻi<\/span> to Zero goal.<\/p>\n

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a>’s<\/a> Hawaiʻi<\/span> Center for AIDS<\/abbr> (HICFA) and community partners will lead discussions updating local efforts to prevent, treat and cure AIDS<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n

Speakers, including keynoter Julie Dombrowski of the University of Washington, will provide updates on the latest research in HIV<\/abbr> prevention. Also speaking will be HICFA<\/abbr> Director Cecilia Shikuma<\/strong><\/a> and center scientists including Lishomwa Ndhlovu<\/strong>, who was awarded top-tier funding from the National Institutes of Health this year to test his\u00a0“shock and kill” strategy to eliminate HIV<\/abbr><\/a> in the body.<\/p>\n

The event is free and is being held in the John A. Burns School of Medicine’ Sullivan Conference Center and the 东精影业<\/abbr> Cancer Center.<\/p>\n

For more information, download the conference brochure<\/a> (PDF<\/abbr><\/small>).<\/p>\n

—By Tina Shelton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hawaiʻi<\/span> Center for AIDS<\/abbr> will lead discussions updating local efforts to prevent, treat and cure AIDS<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[978,993,31,169,9],"class_list":["post-53525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-hawaii-center-for-aids","tag-hivaids","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-uh-cancer-center","tag-uh-manoa","entry","no-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53525"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113747,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53525\/revisions\/113747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}