November 12, 2007
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Journal Article
Kidney functioning for HIV-positive and HIV-negative individuals as measured by levels of cystatin C and creatinine and estimated glomerular filtration rates were compared in this article. Participants were 1,008 HIV-positive individuals from the Fat Redistribution and Metabolic Change in HIV Infection study along with a control sample of 290 individuals from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study.
November 1, 2007
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Journal Article
The patterns of health care use by HIV patients at Veterans Health Administration (VA) centers was the focus of this research study. Participants were 4,368 HIV patients who had presented at a VA between 1998 and 2002.
March 1, 2006
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Program Result
The Vanderbilt University Institute for Public Policy Studies conducted the AIDS Housing Cost Study, a descriptive study of supportive housing options available to people living with HIV/AIDS.
December 1, 2005
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Program Result
A faith-based organization in Charlotte, N.C. recruited and trained members of congregations to help HIV/AIDS patients living in African-American and rural white communities in a 13-county area of the Carolinas.
October 1, 2004
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Program Result
Investigators at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, assessed the effectiveness of a school-based condom-availability program when Philadelphia's school system launched a pilot AIDS prevention program in nine public high schools in 1992.
January 1, 2002
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Book
In this chapter of the Anthology, Ethan Bronner, the education editor of The New York Times, chronicles the way in which the Foundation responded to the AIDS crisis. It is a story of how one foundation dealt with an area of high sensitivity and, in the author's words, "how AIDS changed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation [and] also, in an important sense, how AIDS changed the country."
July 1, 2002
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Program Result
Starting in March 1998, clergy in Waterbury, Conn. developed the Waterbury AIDS Outreach Ministries Program, a project to create a series of retreats and a buddy system for people with AIDS.
May 1, 2001
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Program Result
The National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS engaged African-American stakeholders, including clergy and other leaders, to address HIV/AIDS in three communities: Atlanta, Baltimore and Detroit.
October 1, 2001
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Program Result
In February 1991, the New York City Board of Education approved a plan for expanded HIV/AIDS education that included making condoms available on request to the 261,000 students in the city's 120 public high schools.
November 1, 2001
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Program Result
The American Foundation for AIDS Research, New York, held the 11th and 12th National HIV/AIDS Update Conferences in 1999 and 2000.