News 2012
AIDS Stage, Race, Medicare Affect Hospital Rates in South Carolina
An AIDS diagnosis, AIDS stage, race, and access to Medicare (health insurance for the poor) strongly affected engagement in primary care and hospital admissions in a retrospective study of HIV-positive people in the US state of South Carolina.
Prompt linkage to primary care after HIV diagnosis is essential to effective care and may prevent trips to the hospital and HIV transmission. But fast referral to care remains a challenge in the United States and across the world.
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LASC Rooftop Party: LA PRIDE Sunday
The Black AIDS Institute’s Greater than AIDS campaign, made a strong resonating impression at the annual LASC Rooftop Pride Party. Amidst the sun-kissed party goers and flavor -splashed martinis Greater than AIDS volunteers motivated individuals to know their facts about HIV, engaged people to talk openly and freely, reinforced the importance of protecting themselves and getting tested and celebrated the community for taking action steps to normalize awareness.
In This Issue
For the past 16 years Delores Dockery has been fighting to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This year the activist, whose community-mobilizing work at Newark , N.J.,'s Hyacinth AIDS Foundation has earned her great acclaim, has had her profile raised a little higher. Here this member of the governance committee for this summer's International AIDS Conference talks about what she's looking forward to happening at the conference.
Blacks in AIDS 2012 Leadership: Delores Dockery
One in a series about Black Americans engaged in leadership roles for the 2012 International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012).
Deloris Dockery runs the highly successful One Conversation project, a public-education AIDS-prevention and community-action campaign of the Hyacinth AIDS Foundation in Newark, N.J. She is also a member of the governance committee for AIDS 2012. Here, the activist--who has been HIV positive for 16 years--speaks about what she believes needs to happen to stamp out the HIV/AIDS pandemic; what she's looking forward to at this year's conference in July in Washington, D.C.; and why it's important for Black Americans to attend.
AIDS 2012 Satellite Meeting on Implementation of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy
With only two months to go before we gather with colleagues from across the country and around the globe at AIDS 2012 in Washington, DC, HHS and other parts of our government are working on many facets of the U.S. government’s participation in this international conference hosted by the International AIDS Society . One of these is a satellite session titled “Achieving the Goals of the U.S. National HIV/AIDS Strategy: Future Directions” that will take place on the afternoon of the opening day of the conference, Sunday, July 22, 2012, prior to the opening session. (Satellite sessions take place in the conference center but are fully organized and coordinated by the organization hosting the satellite, not the conference organizers.)
Read more: AIDS 2012 Satellite Meeting on Implementation of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy