News 2011
Public Opinion Polls Uncover Differing Views On Plans For Medicare's Future
NPR reports that the answer to how the public is reacting to plans to transform the Medicare program depends on precisely how the question is posed. Meanwhile, different polls are finding varying impressions among Americans. A Gallup poll released Wednesday found the public evenly divided over how to handle the budget, but a Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll found that seniors seem to prefer Medicare as it is.
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Few Seniors Support GOP Plan To Restructure Medicare
Senior citizens, whose fierce opposition to the 2010 health overhaul law helped propel Republicans' midterm election gains, have little appetite for the House GOP's plans to turn Medicare into a voucher-type program that sends beneficiaries to private plans but limits the amount of federal funding, according to a poll released today.
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WEBINAR:The National HIV/AIDS Strategy: What It Means for Black America
MAY 5, 2011, Noon PST/3 PM EST
If properly implemented, the long awaited National HIV/AIDS Strategy could dramatically reduce new infections, increase the number of people who know their HIV status and increase the number of people in appropriate care and treatment. This webinar will discuss the Strategy andwhat is needed to make sure it works for Black America. Hosted by Phill Wilson, President and CEO of the Black AIDS Institute. Email
Concerns for Black Gay/Bisexual HIV Raised to Global Platform at Dominican Republic Conference
Much of the recent HIV/AIDS data on Black gay and bisexual men— or, "men who have sex with men" (MSM) in public health jargon—has been sobering. A recent Centers for Disease Control study of more than 8,100 MSM found almost one in three Black MSM are HIV positive, compared to only 16 percent of white gay/ and bisexual men. The numbers were even higher in some cities.
Dr. Beny J. Primm, Executive Director, Addiction Research and Treatment Corp.
"We kept trying to find out what the problem was and weren't able to," recalls Beny J. Primm, M.D., who discovered his first case of HIV before the illness had a name. A young man had lymphadenopathy, a lymph node infection, whose baffling cause soon led the doctor's knowledge about substance abuse down an unexpected path that intersected with HIV.
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- Justice Department Issues Letter Regarding Illegal Exclusion of Individuals with HIV/AIDS from Occupational Training and State Licensing
- Health Overhaul Could Double Community Health Centers' Caseload
- The End Of Pennsylvania's AdultBasic - Not A Sound Investment In The State's Future
- Illinois Commences Development of Statewide HIV/AIDS Plan