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July 25, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The choice of Washington, D.C. as the site of the 2012 International AIDS Conference is an important one – about 3 percent of the adult and teen residents of the city are HIV positive. That exceeds the definition of an AIDS epidemic by UNAIDS – 1 pe ...
February 7, 2012 | New Public Health Post
February 7, 2012 marks the 12th annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, a national community mobilization initiative to boost HIV awareness and advance HIV prevention, testing, and treatment among blacks in the United States. Among all racial ...
January 26, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Kaiser Permanente, the largest nonprofit health care provider in the U.S., issued a challenge today to private health care providers and public and community health clinics to increase the number of HIV-positive people getting effective treatment by ...
December 1, 2011 | New Public Health Post
In a year with several milestone treatment breakthroughs, several federal agencies that provide information on HIV/AIDS are refining their sites and targeting messages for distinct audiences to increase the number of people infected with HIV who get ...
November 18, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Some of the most interesting conversations overheard at the recent American Public Health Association annual meeting were among public health students discussing their plans to work in the developing world after graduation. Those plans often include ...
September 20, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
“When women come through our doors, whether they're Latina or African American, White, or whatever, they come at a very vulnerable time. They're shattered and their lives have been shattered. And it's the stigma and isolation that hasn't really been ...
August 18, 2011 | New Public Health Post
A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report found HIV cases stable in many populations, but, alarmingly, an almost fifty percent increase among young gay Black men between 2006 and 2009, the last year for which there is up-to-date inf ...
June 6, 2011 | New Public Health Post
The National Institutes of Health has been the world’s lead agency for developing and funding tests and treatments for HIV/AIDS. Thirty years after publication of the first report about a rare type of pneumonia that became a frequent hallmark of the ...
May 31, 2011 | New Public Health Post
To mark the thirty years since cases of the disease that would become known as AIDS were first reported in the U.S., veteran New York Times health reporter Lawrence K. Altman, M.D., has written a concise history of the disease, and the virus, HIV, t ...
May 18, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Despite encouraging news on HIV/AIDs treatment, such as the NIH study released last week, a key goal is a vaccine that could prevent the infection in the first place. In observance of National HIV Vaccine Awareness Day today, Anthony Fauci, M.D., he ...