One of the lessons that every New Orleanian learned from Hurricane Katrina is that life cannot be taken for granted. Life s fragility is something that people with HIV/AIDS, as well as their family and friends, have been intimately acquainted with for the past 25 years - long before Katrina ever blew up from the Gulf.
AIDS Foundation of Chicago Press Release - December 11, 2006
MEDIA CONTACT: Allison Solomon, 312-334-0922, www.aidschicago.org
In the last hours of the lame duck congressional session, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Ryan White HIV/AIDS reauthorization bill by a voice vote on December 9, 2006. President George W. Bush signed the three-year reauthorization act into law later that day. This is welcome news for people living with HIV
Dear friend, After he had been diagnosed with HIV, Wynn Wagner was ready to die. Wynn had been practicing safer-sex since the 1980 s, yet he still contracted HIV. However, Wynn says, I got on with my life after getting off of the pity pot and flushing it. And six months after he was diagnosed with HIV, Wynn penned Day
Horizons Program/Population Council - December, 2006
Hena Khan, Alison Lee and Ellen Weiss of the Horizons Program, Population Council
Operations research examines strategies to increase access and uptake. The Horizons Report is a biannual newsletter produced by the Horizons Program, which is dedicated to global operations research on HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and support. Link: http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/horizons/hrptdec06.pdf * Horizons Program
Over the past several years, the HIV virus has spread in an alarming, complex and often hidden manner. Ordinary people, local and global communities and various organisations have responded to the epidemic in various ways. They offer many lessons but few have been widely adopted. The latest issue of id21 insights asks:
Women in commercial sex work are seen as agents of HIV and their clients unwitting victims. But in the absence of any economic rehabilitation or community based services, the HIV positive trafficked victim, the marginalized section of the society, continues to be commercially sexually exploited. PREETU NAIR goes behind
Contact: Steve Baragona, (703) 299-0412, sbaragona@idsociety.org
Toronto, CA, Oct. 12--The leading organization of HIV care providers has created clinical fellowships designed to encourage physicians from some of the most-affected communities to enter the field of HIV care. The HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) Minority Clinical Fellowship Program will offer African American and Lati
Most summer jobs for teenagers involve flipping burgers, helping customers or working a cash register. Carrie Ann Lee, 18, isn t like most teens; she is spending her summer in a laboratory, doing research that could lead to a vaccine for HIV/AIDS. Lee, a Laguna Niguel resident who graduated from Aliso Niguel High Schoo
Translated by Act-Up-Paris from the French version of May 10th, 2006
Dr. Nicolas Hacher, Endocrinology and Diabetes Department of Metabolic Diseases and Sterility
Transsexuals and the Risks Of Anti-Retroviral Drugs Interactions between antiretroviral drugs (ARV) and estrogen-progestogen combinations, which are substrates of cytochrome P450 CYP3A4, are presently well-known and are possibly associated with a risk of over or under dosage of hormonal levels, depending on the occurre
Twenty-five years after AIDS began ravaging the world, 40 per cent of South Africans believe there is a cure for the deadly disease. This level of ignorance would be troubling anywhere, but in a country with one of the highest rates of HIV prevalence in the world, it s shocking.
We are doing something really important to help other people, and we are writing to ask for your help. AEGiS is participating in the 20th Annual AIDS Walk Orange County (AWOC) on June 4th and is but one of the proud recipient agencies of AWOC, hosted by AIDS Services Foundation. We would like to invite you, your family
FROM the comfort of her riches, guided by her firm belief that lives, no matter where they are lived, be it in the rich neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York or the malaria-infested Chilubi Island of Zambia , have equal value, Melinda Gates recently traveled to one of the poorest countries in the world - Zambia. M
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