News 2011
The Audacity of Hope
EDITORIAL
This week I am replacing my column with an opinion piece by Deborah Mathis that ran on BlackAmericaWeb.com. In it Mathis responds to a recent survey in which Black people reported feeling more optimistic about the economy than other Americans do. Mathis believes that optimism is a strategy that Black people have used to survive harsh and difficult realities. I believe that it is a tool that people with HIV/AIDS can wield as well. Over the next several weeks and intermittently this year, we will explore issues of optimism, hope, fear and denial in the HIV/AIDS epidemic among Black people.
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Using Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) as a Prevention Tool for MSM: The Promise Comes with Challenges
On Saturday, February 26th, I attended a day-long meeting organized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and hosted by the Fenway Community Health Center in Boston. The theme of the meeting was “Moving forward with PrEP Implementation.” Meeting participants included researchers involved in the original iPrEX study and other ongoing HIV prevention studies, health care providers caring for men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM), state and local health department program directors, MSM community advocates, policy experts, and federal officials.
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Black HIV/AIDS Activists Draw Attention to the Industrialized World: Part 2
The International AIDS Society has scheduled the next International AIDS Conference for July 22-27, 2012, in Washington, D.C. It will be the meeting's first stop in the United States since the 1990 gathering, held in San Francisco. This is the first in an occasional series about conference preparations. Part 2 of this two-part story covers activists' plans to draw attention to the epidemic among Black people living in industrialized nations.
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Many Americans Incorrectly Believe Health Law Has Been Repealed
A poll released Thursday found extensive public confusion about the health care law, with 22 percent of Americans incorrectly believing it has been repealed and another 26 percent unsure or unwilling to say.
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Judges Reviewing Health Law Say Penalty Is Not A Tax
This story comes from our partner NPR's Shots blog.
So far, the five U.S. District Court judges who have ruled on the merits in the various lawsuits against the Patient Protect Act haven't agreed on much.
But they do agree on one thing: The penalty for people who don't get health insurance starting in 2014 is NOT a tax.
Read more: Judges Reviewing Health Law Say Penalty Is Not A Tax