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| CIRA BULLETIN |
Check the latest CIRA news, meetings & announcements.
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| YACS@CIRA |
Did you miss any of our '07-'08 YACS@CIRA seminars? Archived Webcasts are available for streaming along with PowerPoint slides for each presentation.
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| GRANT OPPORTUNITIES |
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for the first round of Grand Challenges Explorations, a new $100 million global health initiative.
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| CORE SERVICES |
CIRA's Core Services are aimed at encouraging the development of new scientists conducting HIV prevention research and enhancing the quality of new and ongoing HIV prevention research at Yale.
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AIDS is now the leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa, and South Africa is facing one of most serious HIV epidemics not only in the region but in the world. 2001 estimates indicate about one-in-nine South Africans (or 4.7 million people) living with HIV/AIDS. At the end of 1999, the estimated number of adults (aged 15-49) living with HIV infection in the country was 4.1 million, of which women made up 56 percent (2.3 million). These figures indicate that South Africa has the highest number of people living with AIDS of any country in the world. 
