Dr. Joseph Hogan on Pooled Testing for HIV/AIDS
TACOMA, Washington — Recently, The Borgen Project sat down with Dr. Joseph Hogan, a professor of biostatistics at Brown University. Hogan is an HIV and AIDS researcher and is currently working on a pooled testing initiative for HIV/AIDS, which is a cheaper, and more effective way to test for the disease in countries such as Kenya. Since 2010, there has been a 55% decrease in HIV/AIDS-related deaths in Kenya and pooled testing has promising results for an increase in diagnoses. How HIV and AIDS Affect Global Poverty Poverty worsens any health condition due to the lack of access to healthcare...
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