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DETROIT, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- African-American political leaders, union members, ministers and community activists are meeting Monday, December 14th to create and implement a strategy to combat the deadly HIV/AIDS virus in the African-American Community.
The University of California, San Diego's School of Medicine was awarded a $17 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study the link between methamphetamine use and HIV/AIDS, it was announced Tuesday.
UC San Diego's School of Medicine was awarded a $17 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study the link between methamphetamine use and HIV/AIDS, it was announced Tuesday. The grant will be used to establish the Translational Methamphetamine AIDS Research Center, according to the university. The funding $3.6 million annually for five years will enable researchers to study ...
LOS ANGELES----AIDS Healthcare Foundation , the largest global AIDS organization, today lauded the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid , for its decision earlier today to cover HIV testing for Medicare beneficiaries who may be at increased risk for HIV exposure as well as women who are pregnant, and beneficiaries of any age that request to be tested.
On Friday, December 4th, the Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) held a Youth and HIV/AIDS Meeting at the White House campus. Over 35 young people flew to Washington, DC to participate in our meeting. The meeting attendees were young people from all regions of the country and of diverse sexual orientation and gender identities. HIV positive youth were also well represented in the group. The ...
Main Campus kicked off World AIDS Week and observed World AIDS Day – which raise awareness and celebrate achievements in the fight against HIV/AIDS – with the fourth-annual Red Lounge in the Student Center Underground Dec. 1. Black and red tablecloths covered tables in the middle of the room, and a buffet table by the [...]
On Tuesday, December 8, the Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) and the Council on Women and Girls co-hosted a Women and HIV Meeting at the White House. The purpose of the meeting was to examine effective approaches to lowering HIV incidence in women, reducing racial disparities in infection rates and access to care, and improving services for women and girls living with HIV. It was an ...
By CLEVELAND TINKER Special to the Guardian Dreary skies and cold temperatures didn't stop members of the non-profit group Black AIDS Services & Education Inc., or BASE, from walking around the Duval neighborhood in east Gainesville to educate people about HIV/AIDS. The walk was organized to recognize World AIDS Day, which was last Tuesday.
The misconception that gays contract HIV/AIDS more often than heterosexuals still exists in today’s society, regardless of published statistics and research that clearly state that this is not the case.
PRETORIA, South Africa - South Africa announced ambitious new plans Tuesday for earlier and expanded treatment for HIV-positive babies and pregnant women, a change that could save hundreds of thousands of lives in the nation hardest hit by the virus that causes AIDS.
A Fargo native got candid with North Dakota State College of Science students and faculty Tuesday while relaying his daily life living and not suffering from HIV.
Those living with HIV/AIDS often lack access to reliable health care that could make the disease manageable and instead are relegated to society’s fringes, left to live out too much of their remaining time without needed care, artists said at the Queens Media Arts Development’s launch of the group’s World AIDS Day event Sunday.
Malama Pono Kaua‘i AIDS Project announced that Faith Harding, HIV prevention specialist, has been chosen by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta to receive a year long scholarship to the Institute for HIV Prevention and Leadership.
When HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), the virus which causes AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), was first discovered in the early 1980s, it was a death sentence. Nearly 30 years later, new medications are helping people with HIV or AIDS in this country live comparatively longer. “The HIV infection has become more of a chronic [...]
South Africa has the largest number of HIV-infected people on the planet, but the country is taking aggressive new steps to fight AIDS.
NEW BRITAIN — Nearly 500 people suffer from AIDS or HIV in the city and officials are taking a stand about it.
