Inspiring a turnaround
Sarah Hemminger leads a band of classmates helping Dunbar students

In two years, Sarah Hemminger has seen her Incentive Mentoring Program at Dunbar pay off. Seven students participating made honor roll last semester.

One early January morning two years ago, Johns Hopkins medical student Sarah Hemminger strode purposefully down Orleans Street to Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, located a stone’s throw away from the East Baltimore campus.
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Celebrating JH’s African- Americans
Student-written biographies of influential African-Americans throughout the university’s history will be formally unveiled this Thursday, Feb. 16, during a celebration honoring the faculty, staff, students and financial supporters behind the African-Americans at the Johns Hopkins Institutions Project.
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Male circumcision protects female partners from HIV
A statistical review of the past medical files of more than 300 couples in Uganda in which the female partner was HIV negative and the male was HIV positive provides solid documentation of the protective effects of male circumcision in reducing the risk of infection among women. Male circumcision also reduced rates of trichomonas and bacterial vaginosis in female partners. The study is believed to be the first to demonstrate the benefits to female partners of male circumcision.
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