News 2017
2017 USCA Social Media Fellows Compete in Social Media Content-Producing Contest
Jourdan Barnes, Community Engagement Specialist, Louisiana Office of Public Health and STD/HIV Program, David Armstead, HIV Program Monitor, Louisiana Office of Public Health and STD/HIV Program, Johnny Guaylupo, Assistant Director, Youth and Prevention Services, Housing Works, Inc., New York City
Jourdan Barnes, a community-engagement specialist at the Louisiana Office of Public Health and STD/HIV Program, wrote a personal essay that won first place in the content-creation contest cellowship, which took place Sept. 5-10, 2017, in Washington, D.C.
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Conversations with Federal HIV Leaders from the 2017 U.S. Conference on AIDS [video]
Dr. Jonathan Mermin, Director, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Dr. Richard Wolitski, Director, Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and Dr. Laura Cheever, Associate Administrator, HIV/AIDS Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration.
HIV.gov shared two more updates via Facebook Live from the 2017 U.S. Conference on AIDS (USCA) in Washington, DC, on Saturday, September 9, 2017. They both featured Federal HIV leaders who addressed conference participants.
Read more: Conversations with Federal HIV Leaders from the 2017 U.S. Conference on AIDS [video]
New HIV Diagnoses are on the Decline
HIV new diagnosis rate is down.
How do we know our national efforts to fight HIV are working? One of the best measures for answering this question is the annual number of new HIV diagnoses, which provides a proxy for new HIV infections when interpreted along with other data.
Uninsured Rate Falls To Record Low Of 8.8%
Fewer without health insurance.
Three years after the Affordable Care Act's coverage expansion took effect, the number of Americans without health insurance fell to 28.1 million in 2016, down from 29 million in 2015, according to a federal report released Tuesday.
In This Issue
Only weeks after the Republican Senate leadership failed to muster enough votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare), Republicans are at it again.
- Drug combination reduces risk of HIV infection among teen males
- Conversations [video] on Viral Suppression and HIV Transmission, Social Media and HIV, and an Update on PACHA from the 2017 U.S. Conference on AIDS
- Live from the 2017 U.S. Conference on AIDS – Conversations on HIV-related Stigma and Curing HCV Coinfection [video]
- Trump's Surgeon General Pick Built Name Fighting HIV And Opioids In Indiana