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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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Trump vs. WHO

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

July 17, 2020

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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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Biomedical Engineering

New Self-Lubricating Condom Would Revolutionize Safe Sex

October 18, 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

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Global Health

A Simple Way to Manage Chronic Disease

June 25, 2015

Global Health

What Big Data Won’t Tell You

March 19, 2015

Child receiving HIV-AIDS treatment

Global Health

Kids Need Improved HIV Treatment

February 26, 2015

Kids Need Improved HIV Treatment