This may be of interest to some folks. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Diana L. Arper <arperd@u.washington.edu> Date: 2010/1/29 Subject: KRG meeting Wed 2/3 from *12:30-1:30pm* To: "Diana L. Arper" <arperd@u.washington.edu> KRG MEETING The next Kenya Research Group meeting is next Wednesday, 2/3 from *12:30-1:30pm* (NEW TIME) in the Ninth and Jefferson Building, conference room 1309. Dr. Patrick Odawo will be presenting on “I-TECH Health Informatics Activities in Kenya”. Dr. Odawo is the eHealth Project Director for University of Washington I-TECH in Kenya, a program facilitating increased use of electronic medical records in the health system. MEETING LOCATION 1309 in the Ninth and Jefferson Building (13th Floor) The Ninth & Jefferson Building is located at 908 Jefferson Street, on the northeast corner of Ninth Avenue and Jefferson Street and less than one block north of Harborview Medical Center. The entrance is on Jefferson, and parking is on Terry between Jefferson & James Streets.

From the lobby, take the elevators to the 13th floor. Room 1309 is located just outside the 13th floor lobby.

KRG NEWS Congratulations (!) to... Bhavna Chohan for receiving a CFAR New Investigator Award for her research proposal titled “Development of ARV resistance in early treated HIV-1 infected infants”. Jennifer Slyker for receiving a CFAR HIV-Associated Malignancy Research Pilot Award for her proposal titled “Control of oncogenic viruses during infancy: the role of concurrent primary HIV infection and HAART”. Lisa Cranmer for being selected for a Platform Presentation at the 2010 Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual Meeting, May 1-4, 2010, for the abstract titled "Detection of Latent Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection among BCG-Vaccinated Kenyan Infants Born to HIV-1 Infected Mothers". John Kinuthia for being selected for an oral presentation at the 17th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2010), February 16-19, 2010, for the abstract titled "Co-factors for HIV Incidence during Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period".  The following manuscripts which include authors from KRG are in press or accepted: Jared Baeten, Deborah Donnell, Mubiana Inambao, Grace John-Stewart, Saidi Kapiga, Rachel Manongi, Allan Ronald, Bellington Vwalika, Connie Celum, for the Partners in Prevention HSV/HIV Transmission Study Team. Male Circumcision and Male-to-Female HIV-1 Transmission Risk:  A Multinational Prospective Study.  AIDS. 2009 Dec 29. [Epub ahead of print]. Buzkova P, Brown E, John-Stewart G. Longitudinal Data Analysis for Generalized Linear Models under Participant-driven Informative Follow-up: An Application in Maternal Health Epidemiology. Am J Epidemiol. 2010 Jan 15;171(2):189-97. Epub 2009 Dec 9. Connie Celum, Anna Wald, Jairam R. Lingappa, Amalia Magaret, Richard S. Wang, Nelly Mugo, Andrew Mujugira, Jared M. Baeten, James I. Mullins, James P. Hughes, Elizabeth A. Bukusi, Craig R. Cohen, Elly Katabira, Allan Ronald, James Kiarie, Carey Farquhar, Grace John Stewart, Joseph Makhema, Myron Essex, Edwin Were, Kenneth H. Fife, Guy de Bruyn, Glenda E. Gray, James McIntyre, Rachel Manongi, Saidi Kapiga, David Coetzee, Susan Allen, Mubiana Inambao, Kayitesi Kayitenkore, Etienne Karita, William Kanweka, Sinead Delany, Helen Rees, Bellington Vwalika, Wendy Stevens, Mary S. Campbell, Katherine K. Thomas, Robert W. Coombs, Rhoda Morrow, William L. H. Whittington, M. Juliana McElrath, Linda Barnes, Renee Ridzon, and Lawrence Corey for the Partners in Prevention HSV/HIV Transmission Study Team. Twice-Daily Acyclovir to Reduce HIV-1 Transmission from HIV-1/HSV-2 Dually-infected Persons within HIV-1 Serodiscordant Couples: A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Trial. N Engl J Med, In Press. Choi R, Farquhar C, Juno J, Mbori-Ngacha D, Lohman Payne B, Vouriot F, Wayne S, John-Stewart G, Bosire R, Fowke K. Infant CD4 C868T polymorphism is associated with increased HIV-1 acquisition overall and via breastmilk. Clin Exp Immunol, In Press. Farquhar C, Mbori-Ngacha D, Overbaugh J, Wamalwa D, Harris J, Bosire R, John-Stewart G. Illness during pregnancy and bacterial vaginosis are associated with in-utero HIV-1 transmission. AIDS. 2010 Jan 2;24(1):153-5. Mitchell CA, Balkus JE, Agnew K, Lawler R, Hitti J. Metronidazole for bacterial vaginosis in early pregnancy changes the vaginal microenvironment but is an ineffective treatment. J Women’s Health, 2009; 18:1817-24. Otieno P, Kohler P, Bosire R, Brown E, Macharia S, John-Stewart G. Determinants of failure to access HIV care in mothers referred to ART programs in Nairobi, Kenya. AIDS Care 2009, In Press. Padian NS, McCoy SI, Balkus JE, Wasserheit JN. Weighing the Gold in the Gold Standard: Challenges in HIV Prevention Research. AIDS, In Press. Walson J, Stewart B, Sangare L, Mbogo L, Otieno P, Piper B, Richardson B, John-Stewart G. Prevalence and correlates of helminth co-infection in Kenyan HIV-1 infected adults. PLoS Neg Trop Dis, In Press. Apologies if we have not listed your recent publications - please let us know about them and we will add them to our publication webpage! http://sites.google.com/site/kenyaresearchgroup/publications  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCES Let us know if you will be attending future conferences, including: Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), San Francisco, February 16-19, 2010 XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010), Vienna, Austria, July 18-23, 2010 International HIV Transmission workshop, Vienna, Austria, July 15-16, 2010 * If you will be presenting, we’d like to include this on our website. Send us your presentation date/time and abstract to be included on our conference page:  http://sites.google.com/site/kenyaresearchgroup/Home/conferences    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you forget where or when the meeting is, you can check our website:  http://www.kenyaresearchgroup.org/