October 16, 2008
The current issue of Endeavors magazine features the work of a faculty member and two students at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.

“Return of the Fatal Cough” describes the resurgence of tuberculosis and the research of Annelies Van Rie, MD, PhD, associate professor of epidemiology:

TB is now the leading cause of death in people with HIV, and the two diseases have created what Van Rie calls a deadly symbiosis.

She treats TB patients in South Africa, which accounts for 29 percent of the continent’s coinfections. “HIV drives the TB epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa,” Van Rie says. “So if you want to do something nowadays about TB there, you can’t neglect HIV.”

In addition, photographs by two students at the School are published in the current issue. Ben Aiken, master’s student in environmental sciences and engineering, and Leah Gilbert, master’s student in maternal and child health, shared photos of their travels in India and South America in the article, “Global Exposures.”

Endeavors, published three times a year by the UNC Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, highlights research and creative activity at UNC. The magazine is available online at http://research.unc.edu/endeavors.

 

UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu.

 

 

 

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