News 2014
ONAP Town Halls in Oakland, San Francisco Identify Challenges, Progress on HIV
Oakland, California
On June 24 and 26, The Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy (OHAIDP) participated in two town halls in Oakland and San Francisco, California that were hosted by the White House Office of National AIDS Policy Director (ONAP) Douglas Brooks. With local organizational assistance from the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, the events were part of a summer series that took place around the country to permit updates on and discussion of federal, state, and local progress toward achieving the goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) and the HIV Care Continuum Initiative (HCCI).
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Using Social Media and Technology for National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day
Senior online
If your grandmother were to ask you for your Twitter handle or your grandfather wanted to become your Facebook friend, how would you respond? If you posted or tweeted messages related to HIV or AIDS awareness, education or testing among older adults, would you be willing to share that information with your grandparents?
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North Carolina's $10B Medicaid Challenge: Pay For Other States Or Take Federal Money?
Gov. Pat McCrory
North Carolina taxpayers could spend more than $10 billion by 2022 to provide medical care for low-income residents of other states while getting nothing in return, a McClatchy Newspapers analysis shows.
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New Report Says U.S. Health Care Violates U.N. Convention on Racism
Patients and doctors at a free temporary health clinic in Los Angeles on October 20, 2011
A report released in August by the Center for Reproductive Rights, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health and Sistersong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective paints a distressing picture of the health conditions facing black and Latina women in the United States.
Read more: New Report Says U.S. Health Care Violates U.N. Convention on Racism
In This Issue
For years we've known that Black MSM use condoms more often than other gay and bisexual men, which makes the recent research about them reported in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections, really really intriguing and important. We open with TheBody.com's story about the study showing that some Black gay Atlanta report higher rates of condom failure and incomplete use.