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Global Health

“It’s Unacceptable”: BU Mathematician Tracks How Many Deaths May Result from USAID, Medicaid Cuts

March 20, 2025

Photo: Protesters in favor of USAID in Washington DC

Expert Take

Dismantling USAID and Withdrawing from World Health Organization “Will Cost Lives and Destroy Critical Infrastructure,” Writes BU Global Nutrition Expert

March 6, 2025

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Human Rights

How War and Displacement Impact Women

January 30, 2024

Photo: Overhead shot of a selection of reproductive health supplies including:pills, diaphragm, condoms, vaginal ring, IUD, implant, dmpa, emergency contraception, and contraceptive pills. All the supplies lie on a lie background.

Birth Control

A New Breed of Nonhormonal Birth Control

November 30, 2022

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Maternal Health

Moving toward More Empathetic Maternal Mental Health Care

November 29, 2022

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Dance

Legendary Dancer, Choreographer, and Director Bill T. Jones to Speak at BU on March 2

February 25, 2022

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Trump vs. WHO

Why Withdrawing the United States from the WHO “Is a Terrible Decision”

July 17, 2020

two nurses conduct a blood test for aids in Faridabad

Health & Medicine

SPH Bicknell Lecture: Is Eradicating AIDS Feasible?

December 2, 2019

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BIRTH CONTROL

Why We Need a Contraception Revolution

August 1, 2019

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Public Health

SPH Report: Many Study Abroad Students Return with Preventable Diseases

December 3, 2018

Antiretroviral drugs can prevent transmission of HIV from mother to unborn child, but we don’t yet fully understand how exposure to HIV affects a baby's health later on.

HIV-AIDS

How Does HIV Exposure Impact Uninfected Babies?

October 24, 2018

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Sex

CFA Presents Two-Part Pulitzer Winner Angels in America

October 18, 2018

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Biomedical Engineering

New Self-Lubricating Condom Would Revolutionize Safe Sex

October 18, 2018

Public Health

AIDS Researcher and Champion Anthony Fauci a 2018 Honorary Degree Recipient

May 15, 2018

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HIV-AIDS

New Concerns about Children Born to HIV-Infected Mothers

March 6, 2017

Fall prevention

Medicine

Researching Fall Prevention in HIV Patients

November 30, 2016

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Medicine

A New Look at the “Wheel of Death”

November 10, 2016

Anthony Petro

History

How the AIDS Crisis Became a Moral Debate

December 15, 2015

Photo courtesy of Jane Fox.

HIV-AIDS

$2.5 Million Grant to Improve HIV Care

October 22, 2015

Children in a school in Botswana

Education

Cutting Risk of HIV Infection in Botswana

July 2, 2015

Cutting Risk of HIV Infection in Botswana