Annual RI AIDS walk to feature prevention message
Proceeds will benefit AIDS Project Rhode Island, which provides a range of services for those living with HIV and AIDS. The wife of Gov.www.boston.com
The Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST) must ...
According to a programmatic update published in June, WHO expects all countries to maximise the use of ARVs for HIV prevention, including countries still working on scaling up treatment for treatment's sake. In its recommendations, WHO states, "In ...www.independent.co.ug
HIV Prevention Must Resume Its Place in the Larger LGBT Agenda
But in mainstreaming HIV as the larger public health challenge that it is, the gay-specific voice has diminished. That's been a missed opportunity to reinforce the self-caring approach that supported so much of the early HIV prevention efforts among ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Medical College of Wisconsin Study Finds Awareness of New Jersey HIV ...
Galletly and her colleagues also asked participants about responsibility for HIV prevention. 90% believed that a person living with HIV bears at least half the responsibility for insuring that an HIV-negative partner doesn't contract HIV through sex ...www.wauwatosanow.com
Can San Francisco Be the First City to End HIV?
Long viewed and widely respected by domestic and international health experts as America's AIDS Model City because of cutting-edge care of people living with HIV and innovative prevention programs, San Francisco could be one city likely to end HIV ...www.edgeboston.com
New anti-HIV Plan laudable
More worrisome is the fact that, new HIV infections continue to outpace those who receive ARV treatment. It is, however, encouraging that the government has adopted a new approach of empowering people living with HIV to take centre stage in preventing ...thecitizen.co.tz
New Website Sets the Record Straight on Groundbreaking HIV Prevention ...
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/-- Getting reliable, easy-to-understand information about a groundbreaking new HIV prevention strategy just got easier. The strategy, known as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), is the focus of a ...www.sacbee.com
HIV Prevention Pill Cost May Be Too High
Amidst the presentations at the 2012 International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., a new drug called Truvada was a conversation lightning rod.www.theroot.com
CDC Announcement: National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
CDC supports a range of efforts to reduce HIV infection among MSM. These include HIV prevention services to reduce the risk for acquiring and transmitting HIV, diagnosis of HIV infection, and linkage of MSM with HIV infection to treatment, including ...www.thebody.com
Circumcision of the mind and soul: The way to go in HIV prevention
We do not learn superlative adjectives for nothing. A thought struck me about this when I heard the initiative, still based on controversial research, that circumcision drastically reduces the chances of HIV infections in groups at risk and that Malawi ...www.nyasatimes.com
Edgemere man faces rarely used HIV transmission charges
"This doesn't make any difference to HIV prevention." Although a growing number of critics are arguing against HIV-related charges, many law enforcement officials maintain that such criminal penalties are necessary.articles.baltimoresun.com
Transmitted HIV Strains May Have Evolutionary Advantage, NIH Scientists Suggest
Learning the characteristics of these preferentially transmitted HIV strains may help advance HIV prevention efforts, particularly with regard to an HIV vaccine, according to the scientists who conducted the study.www.infectioncontroltoday.com
Government adopts new prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT ...
Kampala, Uganda (IRIN) - The government of Uganda has launched the UN World Health Organization's (WHO) "Option B+" to boost the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT). Uganda currently uses a PMTCT system similar to WHO's ...gantdaily.com
Cricket and HIV campaign hits the road aboard the "Let's talk" bus in Sri Lanka
With tickets to the Twenty20 final as the prize, the quiz along with the other activities is intended to help promote key HIV prevention and anti-discrimination messages. The roadshow interactions are clearly showing that public knowledge of HIV is ...www.unaids.org
A Step Backward for AIDS Prevention
This possibility, however, was dealt a serious blow in January when Congress gutted a key component of HIV prevention by reinstating a ban on federal funding of syringe exchange programs.www.huffingtonpost.com
Combination Prevention: Can it turn the HIV tide?
If we really want to turn the HIV tide, we cannot afford to wait for a 'magic bullet', but do a better job with a broad range of HIV prevention and treatment tools and approaches at hand. The good news is that there is a growing list of evidence-based ...www.weeklyblitz.net
Uganda needs US$400m every year to fight HIVPublish Date: Sep 17, 2012
The cost is contained in the National HIV Prevention Strategy 2011-15. Dr. Kihumuro Apuuli disclosed this during a panel discussion on financing HIV programmes at the sixth National Paediatric HIV/AIDS conference held at Hotel Africana in Kampala last ...www.newvision.co.ug
Questions over Uganda's ability to cut new HIV infections
Uganda's HIV prevalence has risen from 6.4 percent to 7.3 percent over the past five years. In August, the Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) released a revised National HIV Prevention Strategy aimed at "increasing the adoption of safer sexual behaviour and ...gantdaily.com
Plan drawn up to check HIV spread
The ministry of Health and Social Welfare has adopted a new approach empowering people living with HIV to take centre stage in preventing the spread of this deadly virus. Dubbed "Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention (PHDP)", the policy is part of ...thecitizen.co.tz
Research underscores Truvada's potency in preventing the transmission of HIV
New research from an international team of HIV/AIDS experts has reaffirmed the effectiveness of Truvada—the first and only medication approved by the FDA for HIV prevention. Led by Gladstone Investigator Robert Grant, MD, MPH and Peter Anderson, ...medicalxpress.com
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