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University of Washington

TREE is dedicated to addressing the health needs of people living in resource-limited settings through quality medical care, academic research, training and education. 

Students at the 2011 Principles of STD/HIV Research course
Education | Online course: Principles of STD/HIV Research

TREE is pleased to offer online access to the 2012 Principles of STD/HIV Research course, a 2-week course offered by the University of Washington Center for AIDS Research.  The course runs July 16 -26, 2012.  Registration

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Christine Makela
Research | TREE at CROI

TREE Research Assistant Kara Marson presented her poster "Enrollment in Care among Clients Lost to Follow-up from an ART Adherence Trial in Nairobi, Kenya" at the 19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections conference in Seattle, WA.

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Treatment | The Tumaini Project

Tumaini is the Swahili word for hope.

The Tumaini Project was established in 2002 to provide free antiretroviral treatment to Kenyans living with HIV.

In collaboration with the Slum Doctor Programme based in Bellingham, WA, USA and Jolkona, TREE has launched a fundraising campaign to supplement care to patients affected by HIV in areas that PEPFAR does not support, including third line antiretrovirals.

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Thomas H. Payne, MD
Education | HIV/AIDS Seminar Archive

TREE Distance Learning offers public access to previously recorded seminars delivered by leaders in the fields of research and treatment of HIV/AIDS. 

Provided courtesy of the University of Washington's Harborview Medical Center Madison Clinic, the UW Center for AIDS Research and the Northwest AIDS Education and Training Center.

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Welcome!

Treatment, Research, and Expert Education (TREE) is a workgroup in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington.

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Treatment

Coptic Hope Center for Infectious Disease
TREE provides technical assistance in the areas of clinical HIV care, fiscal management, and monitoring and evaluation to the Coptic Hope Centers for Infectious Diseases, a group of HIV treatment clinics in Kenya which TREE helped establish in collaboration with the Coptic Christian Mission...

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Research

HIV and Hepatitis B co-infection
Dr. Michael Chung is collaborating with Dr. Nina Kim to study the prevalence of Hepatitis B (HBV) among those infected with HIV in Kenya and to determine the incidence of HBV resistance on lamivudine monotherapy.  The team is retrospectively analyzing blood samples collected from 400 adults...

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Education

Clinical Management of HIV
GH573: "Clinical Management of HIV" is a graduate level course at the University of Washington offered free of charge via web-based distance learning technologies to groups of students in resource-limited settings.  The course is composed of ten 2-hour lectures given weekly between...

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