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The Emory AITRP provides interdisciplinary training and research opportunities in HIV/AIDS prevention science to exceptional investigators from Mexico, The Republic of Georgia and Vietnam. The outstanding opportunities for collaborative interdisciplinary training in HIV/AIDS prevention at Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provide researchers from participating countries with the training in research and program implementation necessary to make significant contributions to HIV/AIDS prevention upon their return home. The training program addresses local needs and research priorities, as determined by each country.
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Vaccines are among the greatest advances in modern medicine. Thanks to their development and cost-effectiveness, crippling diseases like smallpox and polio are now footnotes in history. However, millions of people worldwide are still plagued by today's infectious diseases, which have proven more difficult to restrain. Emory University has underscored its commitment to world leadership in the fight against these modern killers in its assembly of one of the largest centers ever created to forge new vaccine strategies. The dedicated researchers there hope to make some of the world's most challenging health problems--AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, influenza, and respiratory illnesses--a thing of the past.
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The Atlanta Tbilisi Healthcare Partnership is one of twenty-one partnerships established by the American International Health Alliance of Washington, DC, a non-governmental organization formed to improve health care in the republics of the former Soviet Union by establishing partnerships between US institutions and institutions in the republics. There are five Atlanta, GA institutions that are participants in the Atlanta Tbilisi Healthcare Partnership: Emory University, The Georgia Institute of Technology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Georgia State University and Grady Hospital.
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The Winship Cancer Institute�s (WCI) history dates back to 1937 when Coca Cola President and Chairman Robert W. Woodruff partnered with Emory University to establish one of the first clinics in the nation devoted entirely to the care of cancer patients. Today, as Emory prepares to open the new 265,000-square-foot building that will house WCI, Mr. Woodruff�s vision for a comprehensive cancer treatment, research and medical training facility are fully realized.
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The mission of Sickle Cell Information Center is to provide sickle cell patient and professional education, news, research updates and world wide sickle cell resources. It is the mission of our organizations to provide world class compassionate care, education, counseling, and research for patients with sickle cell disease. It is our mission to help break the sickle cycle.