In 2017, according to UNAIDS, more than 90% of HIV-positive pregnant women accessed antiretroviral (ART) medicines to prevent mother-to child transmission of HIV in Southern Africa, and recent research suggests access and adherence to ART remains high during pregnancy due in part to the scale up of national antenatal (ANC) and ART care clinics.

Engagement in HIV care after delivery, however, can be challenging.

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Miguel Cuj, M.A., has been awarded the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition’s Thomas Marchione Award for his MA thesis on “Maya Memories of the Internal Armed Conflict: Health and Nutrition in a K'iche Maya Community.” The award recognizes exceptional student work that promotes “food justice, food security and access, and most directly, food as a human right.” The award and cash prize will be presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association in San Jose in November. 

Cuj is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology at Vanderbilt University. He earned a Master of Arts in Latin American Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Global Health this year. His research interests include nutrition, health inequalities, social-structural issues, bio-communicability in health, and culture issues in rural Guatemala.