News 2011
AP: Working-Age People Losing ground on Health Coverage, According to Census Data
The Associated Press/Washington Post: Census Data Expected To Show Working-Age People Losing Ground In Terms Of Poverty, Insurance
Hurt by high unemployment, working-age Americans are expected to lose ground when new census figures on poverty and the uninsured are released.
Read more: AP: Working-Age People Losing ground on Health Coverage, According to Census Data
Rate Of Uninsured Stays Flat In 2010, Census Reports
Nearly 50 million Americans lacking health insurance was the best economic news to come out of the bleak U.S. Census figures released today.
Read more: Rate Of Uninsured Stays Flat In 2010, Census Reports
Medicare Steps Up Enforcement of Equal Visitation and Representation Rights for Same Sex Partners in Hospitals
Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)announced new guidance to support enforcement of rules that protect hospital patients’ right to choose their own visitors during a hospital stay, including a visitor who is a same-sex domestic partner.
Community Input for 2012 International AIDS Conference
In October, planning committees convened by the International AIDS Society will begin to make decisions about non-abstract-driven sessions that will occur at the 19th International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC in July 2012. Planning will begin on everything from the opening ceremonies and plenary sessions to special symposia, workshops, and other presentations and discussions designed to address the most pressing issues and topics facing the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Read more: Community Input for 2012 International AIDS Conference
In This Issue
Many people with HIV also have hepatitis. Here, HIV specialist Dr. Teresa Mack, an associate medical director at New York City's St. Luke's-Roosevelt hospital, educates readers about how to manage an HIV/hepatitis co-infection.
We also run ColorLines.com's Q&A with Richard Wolitski, a deputy director in the CDC’s HIV/AIDS Prevention Division, about the CDC's concern regarding the increase in new HIV infections among young Black gay and bisexual men, as well as its new Testing Makes Us Stronger HIV-testing campaign.