News 2014
Understanding HIV in America: Five ways to learn more using AIDSVu
AIDS Vu DC Statistics
National HIV/AIDS Strategy emphasizes the importance of intensifying our efforts in the areas where HIV is most heavily concentrated. AIDSVu, an online, interactive mapping website, helps us to identify those communities most impacted by the HIV epidemic. Launched in 2010 by the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, in partnership with Gilead Sciences, Inc., AIDSVu visualizes the most up-to-date information about HIV in our states, counties, and cities.
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With Health Law, ERs Still Packed
Emergency!
Experts thought if people bought health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, they would find a private doctor and stop using hospital emergency rooms for their primary care.
In This Issue
One of the key take-aways from AIDS 2014 was that if we are ever to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic, we need to focus on the populations most affected by the virus. We run Part 2 of our three-part series, HIV Does Discriminate, turning our attention to one of the most affected populations: sex workers.
HIV Does Discriminate: The Worldwide Fight Against Stigma and Discrimination, Part 2
Daisy Nakato Namakula
In a reversal of a long-standing public health mantra, one of the key messages from AIDS 2014 is that HIV does discriminate. In the second of a three-part series, writer Linda Villarosa spotlights sex workers' fight for their rights. Go here to read Part 1, which describes the populations most at risk.
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Stigma Is A Side-Effect Of HIV-Prevention Medicine
Eric McCulley
In order to slow the spread of HIV, certain people who do not have the virus but are at risk should take medication to prevent becoming infected. That's the recommendation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and just recently, the World Health Organization.
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