Edelweiss Journal of AIDS
Editor
Biography
Carmen Figueroa is a physician/public health professional and a fellow in Preventive Medicine and Public Health, now working as consultant in the HIV department at WHO HQ. Her role focuses on HIV testing services priorities and male circumcision. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Health from the Escuela Nacional de Sanidad, ISCIII in Madrid, Spain and has a background in community-based HIV testing. Prior to coming to WHO, she was on a four year residency program; where she developed several competencies in epidemiology, preventive medicine, health administration, biomedical research and health promotion, by working in governmental and non-governmental health institutions, Public Health agencies, Hospitals and International Public Health Organizations. She has collaborated in studies addressing HIV self-testing awareness and acceptability among men that have sex with men in Spain. Carmen is passionate about innovative strategies to scale-up equitable access to HIV testing services, prevention, care and treatment services.
Research Interest
Carmen is passionate about innovative strategies to scale-up equitable access to HIV testing services, prevention, care and treatment services.
Keywords
- HIV AIDS
- HIV Prevention
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Immunology of HIV AIDS
- Retrovirology
- HIV infection
- Human immunodeficiency virus
- Immunity
- Aids and behavior
- HIV Viral Hepatitis
- ELISA
- Immunohistochemistry
- Virology
- Pathogens
- Immunology
- HIV Treatment
- Pediatric HIV AIDS
- Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV
- HIV prevention methods
- Treatment of AIDS
- HIV AIDS Related Cancers
- Viral load
- T Cells in HIV
- HIV latency
- CD4 count
- HAART
- HIV Testing
- HIV and Fertility
- HIV Stigma
- HIV Drug discovery
- AIDS vaccines
- Immunopathology
- Retrovirus
- HIV Genome
- HIV pathology
- Management of HIV
- Anemia
- HIV and TB
- Anti retro viral therapy
- HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder
- HIV Malnutrition
- HIV Diagnosis
- Autoimmune diseases
- Immunoglobulins
- Infections
- HIV and Cardiac diseases
- AIDS
- Clinical latency
- HIV Awareness
- Acute infection
- Viro immunotherapy
- AIDS and Co infections
- HIV AIDS Complications
- HIV and Aging
- HIV in women
- HIV cure
- Serostatus
- Western blot test
- DOT test
- Immunocytochemistry
- HIV rapid tests
- HIV reservoirs
- HIV life cycle
- AIDS Education
- HIV Nursing care
- Syphilis
- Gonorrhea
- Candidiasis
- Human papillomavirus infection
- Immune system
- HIV Incidence
- HIV Type I
- HIV Type II
- HIV and Malaria
- HIV Medication adherence
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