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The State of HIV/AIDS Education in America


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In this episode of MicrobeWorld Video we ask some leading researchers, education specialists, and public health officials about the state of HIV/AIDS education in America and ideas they have to support the teaching of microbial evolution using the latest HIV/AIDS research ó all while instilling innovative prevention strategies.

Filmed at a forum for educators on February, 11, 2008 at the Koshland Science Museum in Washington, D.C. and at San Diego State University, this episode features the following experts:

Roland Wolkowicz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, San Diego State University, whose research focus is on the use of random peptide libraries and other chemical genetics approaches for the study of viral pathogenesis and the search of antiviral factors in HIV1 and HCV.

Shannon Lee Hader, M.D., MPH, Director of the HIV/AIDS Administration for Washington, D.C., an epidemiologist and public health physician who has worked with HIV-infected children and adults in Brazil, Jamaica, and Zimbabwe.

Anila Asghar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Education at Johns Hopkins University, whose research focuses on curriculum development and evolution.

Educational resources mentioned within the video can be found online at:

Koshland Science Museum
http://koshlandscience.org/teachers/webquest.jsp

NIH Curriculum Guide
http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih1/Disea...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/

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2 responses // The State of HIV/AIDS Education in America

  • Good info! Thanks for airing it!
    stopnoise
  • Although, I feel it is good to give information for prevention, it is paramount that our government begin to force the medical and research community to seek out a cure rather than just maintaining the disease through drugs. Since the only disease that has been cured in the past fifty years is impotency, it is no surprise that transmission has increased. As for the premise that our government mainly (white, males, bigoted) has directly been responsible for the creation of this disease, remember the Tuskegee experiment and how it was denied for so long, and that African American nurses were accomplices to the white doctors who carried out the experiment on African American men. HIV/AIDs has become big business and has made more drug companies profitable. It will not be an important issue for our government yet, but hopefully our politicians will find themselves infected down the road, especially since many of them are being exposed for sex scandals. It is sad to say this but it would a great event if one of the bush daughters contracted the disease, then and only then would bush invest the true support, financially and politically.
    LAHolly

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