By Ambassador Eric Goosby, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (Cross-posted from the State Department Blog) This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps, and I would like to thank the thousands of volunteers who have responded to the HIV/AIDS...
By Ronald Valdiserri, M.D., M.P.H, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Infectious Diseases, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Dr. Ronald Valdiserri With this post, we launch an occasional series, The Strategy in Action: Communities Respond to the National HIV/AIDS...
Search this site : Home About Us I Need . PEER Education Community Blog Calendar HIV AIDS News Job Volunteer Board Contact Us You are here Blogs Pistol Pete's blog Join Kat in the Fight Against HIV Stigma Join Kat in the Fight Against HIV Stigma By Pistol Pete Posted on 30 March 2011 My name is Kat Griffith , and I live in Peoria , Illinois . I'm living with HIV and the stigma that comes with it each and every day . As a woman living with this disease for twenty years , I have personally experienced people’s fear of HIV-positive individuals . Stigma nearly took my life and silenced me for decades , but that ends today as I share my story with the world and encourage others to join me in the Anti-Stigma T-shirt . Campaign The impact of HIV stigma goes beyond the nearly 1.1 million Americans
By Ambassador Eric Goosby, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (Cross-posted from the State Department Blog) The situation in Côte d'Ivoire is extremely precarious and volatile, yet the U.S. government remains committed to supporting Côte d'Ivoire's fight against HIV/AIDS through the U.S....
: Science Speaks : HIV TB News A project of the Center for Global Health Policy Search Search : for Go Home About Liveblog Archives you’re reading . HIV Prevention A dance’ before a trial begins By John Donnelly March 30, 2011 Post a comment Col . Nelson L . Michael , MD , PhD Nelson L . Michael is a medical doctor , has a doctorate in molecular biology , holds the rank of colonel in the U.S . Medical Corps and his day job is huge : He is in charge of the U.S . Military HIV Research Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Rockville , Md . He oversees 750 people and his budget this year was 180 . million But Michael is low-key to the core , and much of his job escapes public notice , even if he now is following multiple leads that resulted from a Thailand HIV vaccine study 
By Christopher Bates, Executive Director, Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Dr. Mark Colomb This week we lost another leader in the HIV community. Dr. Mark Colomb (1963-2011) was passionately committed to Mississippi...
As part of our series honoring World TB Day, the following is a commentary by Carol Dukes Hamilton, MD, senior scientist of Health and Developmental Sciences at FHI and associate professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center.
"Today is the day that we acknowledge the progress and the ongoing challenges associated with the second leading infectious disease killer in the world today—tuberculosis (TB). This ancient disease continues to take a tremendous human toll of 1.8 million lives annually. Without dramatic increases in funding and political commitment, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that more than 10 million additional lives will be lost between now and 2015 to this preventable, curable disease – 4 million of them will be women and children..."
The investigational integrase inhibitor elvitegravir performs as well against HIV as the only approved medication in its class, raltegravir (Isentress), according to the drug's maker.
In time for World TB Day on March 24, researchers from McGill University and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center launched the BCG World Atlas: a searchable website that offers free detailed information on current and past TB vaccination policies and practices for more than 180 countries. A paper about the BCG [...]Search this site : Home About Us I Need . PEER Education Community Blog Calendar HIV AIDS News Job Volunteer Board Contact Us You are here Blogs aidsconnect's blog Save the Affordable Care Act Save the Affordable Care Act By aidsconnect Posted on 23 March 2011 A year ago , the new national health reform law—the Affordable Care Act—passed Congress , offering the potential to transform the fight against the HIV epidemic by reducing deaths and new . infections But some members of Congress aren’t telling the truth about how their constituents will benefit from health reform . They want to repeal the new program and starve it of . funding Send a message to your member of Congress : Fully implement health reform now Sure , the new law isn’t perfect , but for the first time , nearly all people
Scientists at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center and VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine (VIMM) have discovered a novel mechanism in gene regulation that contributes to the development of a form of liver cancer called hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Currently, there is virtually no effective therapy for HCC, and this breakthrough identifies a promising new target for therapeutic intervention........ A major milestone in microfluidics could soon lead to stand-alone, self-powered chips that can diagnose diseases within minutes. The device, developed by an international team of scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, Dublin City University in Ireland and Universidad de Valparaíso Chile, is able to process whole blood samples without the use of external tubing and extra components........ It has been long known that stress plays a part not just in the graying of hair but in hair loss as well. Over the years, numerous hair-restoration remedies have emerged, ranging from hucksters' "miracle solvents" to legitimate medications such as minoxidil. But even the best of these have shown limited effectiveness........ Scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago have demonstrated for the first time that damage to a particular area of the brain and a consequent reduction in noradrenaline are linked to multiple sclerosis. The study is available online in the journal Brain The pathological processes in MS are not well understood, but an important contributor to its progression is the infiltration of white blood cells involved in immune defense through the blood-brain barrier........ For almost two decades, heart specialists have searched for ways to see dangerous blood clots before they cause heart attacks. Now, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report that they have designed nanoparticles that find clots and make them visible to a new kind of X-ray technology........ Search this site : Home About Us I Need . PEER Education Community Blog Calendar HIV AIDS News Job Volunteer Board Contact Us You are here Blogs aidsconnect's blog Abstinence Only Heck no Abstinence Only Heck no By aidsconnect Posted on 21 March 2011 On March 15 in Springfield , Senate Bill 1619, the Illinois Personal Responsibility Education Program PREP Act , passed out of the Senate Public Health committee . This is a great first step towards comprehensive sexual health education in Illinois schools . SB 1619 is moving to the full Senate we need your help to make it a reality for Illinois . youth Take action now and send your state senator a letter urging him her to vote yes on SB 1619. SB 1619 protects young women and men and helps them make responsible decisions by requiring thatSearch this site : Home About Us I Need . PEER Education Community Blog Calendar HIV AIDS News Job Volunteer Board Contact Us You are here Blogs Mirsa's blog All We Are Sayin' is Give Female Condoms a Chance All We Are Sayin' is Give Female Condoms a Chance By Mirsa Posted on 17 March 2011 Exactly one week before the annual commemoration of National Women and Girls HIV AIDS Awareness Day , the feminist blog Jezebel responded with intense skepticism to the USA Today headline claiming that female condoms FCs are gaining broader acceptance in U.S . cities . Citing the experience of one woman who did not enjoy using FCs and had difficulty locating them , the blogger casts them as nothing but a sad sack of contraception options . Several readers’ comments belittled the safer sex tool as noveltyAn increased emphasis on HIV testing, combined with an aging medical work force, may leave many patients without adequate care, according to a new report from the Institute of Medicine.Search this site : Home About Us I Need . PEER Education Community Blog Calendar HIV AIDS News Job Volunteer Board Contact Us You are here CCHC's Annual Benefit RESOLVE CCHC's Annual Benefit RESOLVE Use the Events Calender to find out what's happening in your community . Everyone is encouraged to view the calendar listings , but only registered members may post an . event By aidsconnect Posted on 17 March 2011 Date : nbsp 04 23 2011 6:00pm Join the Christian Community Health Center's Annual Benefit Resolve : Lighting the Way Saturday April 23, 2011 6:00 pm Reception 7:00 pm Dinner Program Museum of Science Industry 57th Lake Shore Drive , Chicago , IL For more information contact the CCHC Development team at 773 233-8524 x 2136 Purchase Tickets NOW ShareThis Calendar Navigation CommunityA New York kidney transplant patient contracted HIV in 2009 from a living organ donor, the first such case known in the U.S. since screening for the virus became possible in 1985, the CDC reported.Want the latest inside scoop on what’ happening in Springfield? Please join the AIDS Foundation of Chicago’ Illinois AIDS Policy 411 conference call and webinar on Friday, March 25 at 12:00 p.m. and learn about current proposals regarding the budget, payments to providers, ADAP, sex education and HIV and corrections.read morePre-chewing food for children appears to be common practice among caregivers of children who were perinatally exposed to HIV, the CDC reported.People with HIV are at higher risk of bone fractures than the general population, researchers reported.AIDS Foundation of Chicago and our partner organizations in the fight for quality and affordable health care will hold a one year anniversary celebration of the passage of the national health reform law on Wednesday, March 23rd, from 6-7:30 p.m. nbsp; It will take place at Chicago Temple, 77 W. Washington, Chicago. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-Chicago) is already confirmed to attend.
read moreJoin the AIDS Foundation of Chicago and our partners on Wednesday, March 30th for Comprehensive Reproductive Health and Access Lobby Day. We’l be advocating for Senate Bill 1619, the Illinois Personal Responsibility Education Program Act, which will protect youth and help them make responsibleread more Researchers have identified a single mutated gene that causes Hajdu-Cheney syndrome, a disorder of the bones causing progressive bone loss and osteoporosis (fragile bones). The study, published in Nature Genetics today, gives vital insight into possible causes of osteoporosis and highlights the gene as a potential target for treating the condition........ The Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC) released a statement opposing funding cuts passed by the U.S. House. Go, nurses!
ead moreBOSTON -- A series of clinical studies is likely to change practice related to preventing mother-to-child-transmission of HIV and also change the protocol for treating children who nevertheless become infected, researchers said here.Announcing Public Health Boot Camp IV: The AIDS Foundation of Chicago and DePaul University are having our next Public Health Boot Camp on July24-29, 2011. We are having an informational session on March 8, 2011 at the DePaul Center, 1 E.read more