Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been awarded a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Fogarty International Center to train promising Zambian investigators in HIV and women’s reproductive health research. … Read more

From his window at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Project-Malawi, Satish Gopal has a clear view of the cancer hospital currently under construction on the campus of Kamuzu Central Hospital. The metaphor isn’t lost on him or anyone … Read more

It’s just after 6 p.m. in Lilongwe and the Chipiku Plus grocery store is crowded with people doing after work shopping. We are here to gather basics: tea, cereal, juice, a large case of bottled water. Despite the crowd, the … Read more

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol L. Folt visited UNC Project-Malawi in early June; read more about her visit and the work of UNC Project-Malawi here. UNC Project-Malawi is a global health success story. From Malawi, a landlocked … Read more

Physicians who seek to bring cancer treatments to sub-Saharan African that are available in other parts of the world are often hindered by a lack of clinical trial data showing how these treatments might help or harm patients in the … Read more

The inclusion of pregnant women in Zika virus vaccine research is crucial to solving the international health crisis, according to new guidance published by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Center for Bioethics and two other universities. UNC’s … Read more

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s work in Malawi began more than 20 years ago with a small team working out of a single rented office on the second floor of the Dulux Paint Building in Old Town … Read more

A landmark study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine has identified the first genetic locus for anorexia nervosa and has revealed that there may also be metabolic underpinnings to this potentially … Read more

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine researcher Matt Collins will headline the May 18 Science Café at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences in downtown Raleigh. Collins is an OIA Global Health Scholar and an Infectious … Read more

For many Nicaraguans, a diagnosis of a heart condition such as mitral valve stenosis – a debilitating complication that can be the end result of untreated strep throat – is grim news that offers little in the way of hope. … Read more