News 2011
Ask the Doctor: What Is Hepatitis-and-HIV Co-Infection?
Every month, HIV specialist Theresa Mack, M.D., M.P.H.--an associate medical director at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital's Medical Group in Harlem, N.Y.--will answer your most pressing HIV/AIDS questions.
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Federal Health Officials Push ‘Strength Through Affirmation’ of Black Gay Men
When the Center for Disease Control and Prevention released its latest estimates of HIV infection earlier this month, it made unexpected headlines with a startling finding: 30 years into the epidemic, researchers have found a burgeoning epidemic among young black gay and bisexual men. This week, at the agency’s massive annual convening of HIV prevention scientists and experts, federal health officials rolled out a rare national campaign targeting black gay men.
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30 Years of AIDS: Dázon Dixon Diallo from SisterLove on Women, Progress, and the Road Ahead
In the second of our six-week video series, SisterLove founder Dázon Dixon Diallo, MPH, discusses 30 years of HIV/AIDS in the U.S. In this video, Ms. Dixon Diallo talks about starting SisterLove, a reproductive justice organization for women, with a focus on HIV/AIDS, in 1989 and how she found herself, “at the right place, at the right time and facing the opportunity to make the right decision to be involved.”
Update: National HIV/AIDS Strategy Implementation Dialogues
Our Federal partners, as well as so many community members, people living with HIV, funders, businesses, faith leaders and other stakeholders have demonstrated encouraging support and enthusiasm for the implementation of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (Strategy). Perhaps one of the most encouraging developments has been the way in which the NHAS has helped steer the national HIV conversation in the direction of the Strategy’s goals. States and local jurisdictions have already begun the process of developing their own Strategy and implementation plans.
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What The ‘Super Committee’ Might Mean For Medicare
Have you put the summer’s deficit reduction agreement and the upcoming “super committee” out of your mind? With Labor Day approaching, it’s time to pay attention again.
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