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...with all of our major researchers who were running programs and met with all of the field project directors of these activities,” says Max Essex, chair of the department of immunology and infectious diseases at SPH and chair of the Harvard AIDS Institute, who met with Hyman during his stay in Botswana...
...Essex, chair of the department of immunology and infectious diseases and of the Harvard AIDS Institute, said that some of the initial delays were likely not necessary...
...Obviously it hasn’t been well coordinated, and I do believe that until recently there was a lack of understanding of the extent of expertise available in the SPH for such work in developing countries,” Essex said last Friday...
...Burundi, where it affects women and men in equal numbers. According to a Canadian researcher working in East Africa, "Prostitution seems to have played a key role in African AIDS." Many of the affected males, he notes, are "heterosexuals who have a large number of sexual partners." Virologist Myron Essex of the Harvard school of public health thinks that as many as one out of every 20 people is infected (though not necessarily ill) in Africa's "AIDS belt," which also includes parts of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Some researchers see this as "a foretaste" of what will occur...
...prevalence of the AIDS virus in central Africa has led researchers to speculate that the disease originated on that continent. Harvard's Essex believes the scourge got its start in monkeys, specifically the African green monkey. In sampling the blood of 200 greens from this region, Essex found that 70% of them were infected with a virus similar to the one that causes AIDS in humans. Curiously, the virus does not seem to harm the monkeys, a fact that might hold important clues for future research. Essex suspects that in the past 20 to 40 years, the virus spread from...