Tag Archives: asia

Spotlight on GlobalHealthIdeas.org

Written by Damjan Denoble. Posted on October 5, 2009. Filed under Asia, NOT-China, News Items. No comments.

Global Health Ideas is really coming along as a quality resource for any students of, appropriately enough, global health. The principal contributors are Amar, Jaspal, Farzaneh, and Ben, all graduate students pursuing what seem like worthwhile and fascinating projects. These four really pile it on, in a good way, with reporting on the the latest developments [...]

Understanding the Thailand HIV/AIDS vaccine

Written by Damjan Denoble. Posted on September 25, 2009. Filed under Asia, NOT-China, News Items, Public Health. 4 Comments.

News and Background The big Asia public health news of the moment is the reporting of the world’s first successful HIV/AIDS vaccine trial. In the trial, started in 2006, of the 16, 395 Thai volunteers that participated half were put on a placebo, and the other half were given the vaccine, RV 144, a mix of [...]