, : 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 . 2011 Kenya CoDel Walter Reed Program delivers on science and care in Kericho , Kenya By Christine Lubinski August 31, 2011 Post a comment The following is a post from Center for Global Health Policy Director Christine Lubinski , who recently traveled to Kenya with a group of Capitol Hill staff from key Congressional offices with jurisdiction over global health funding or programs . A Walter Reed patient telling the Congressional delegats how PEPFAR and this program saved his life . Amidst the beautiful tea plantations of Kericho , the Kenya Medical Research Institute KEMRI Walter Reed Program supports research and clinical excellence . This
Earlier this month, AIDS.gov attended the 5th Annual National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference was hosted by The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Public Health Information Coalition (NPHIC), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and National Cancer Institute (NCI). Naima Cozier, AIDS.gov Trainer,...
In the second of our six-week video series, SisterLove founder Dázon Dixon Diallo, MPH, discusses 30 years of HIV/AIDS in the U.S. In this video, Ms. Dixon Diallo talks about starting SisterLove, a reproductive justice organization for women, with a focus on HIV/AIDS...
Demonstrating their interest to learn more about and eagerness to support the implementation of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, more than 100 stakeholders joined a symposium last month at Florida International University in Miami. Participants included representatives of local health departments, several Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grantees...The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently posted new resources on two important HIV prevention topics: Updated Fact Sheet: HIV among Women – According to 2009 HIV surveillance data, women represented 24% of all diagnoses of HIV infection among U.S. adults and adolescents in 40 states with long-established, confidential name-based reporting. In 2008,...
The rules that protect HIV surveillance data should be removed so the information can be used to improve the health of the HIV population and the general public, public health experts argued.
At AIDS.gov we manage and receive guidance from the Federal HIV/AIDS Web Council (FHAWC). Its members are the federal agencies that address HIV testing, care and treatment, research and policy issues. During my internship with AIDS.gov this summer, I took a look at how the agencies of the Council are drawing on new media platforms...This has been a big year for the HIV community. One key event was June 5 — which marked 30 years since the first reported cases of AIDS in the United States. As one of the many efforts to recognize this important milestone, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) developed a series...A simple change to the electronic medical records system at a major Midwest clinical center was all it took to nearly double outpatient HIV testing, a researcher reported.
This is the third in our series of daily highlights from the National HIV Prevention Conference underway now in Atlanta. This re-cap spotlights activities from Tuesday, August 16. Focus on Improving Access to Care Tuesday’s plenary session addressed the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) goal of improving access to care, focusing on three important approaches that...
Co-authored by Hadiza Buge, Web Content Manager, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Mindy Nichamin, New Media Coordinator, AIDS.govAIDS.gov and the CDC hosted a social media lab with special sessions on using new media at the 2011 National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta, Georgia (follow the hashtag #2011NHPC to listen to the conversation). The lab was a place where people could stop by and get personalized technical assistance. ...
: 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 Scientists find new antibodies to help in HIV vaccine quest By Meredith Mazzotta August 17, 2011 Post a comment Wayne Koff , PhD , chief scientific officer at the International AIDS Vaccine . Initiative In a new article published today in the journal Nature a team of researchers reported the isolation of 17 novel antibodies capable of deactivating a broad spectrum of HIV variants which could be huge in the development of an HIV . vaccine The team of researchers hailed from the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative IAVI the Scripps Research Institute , Theraclone Sciences and Monogram Biosciences . Inc Science Speaks interviewed
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ATLANTA, August 16, 2011 – Just months after an AIDS drug demonstrated reasonable efficacy in preventing HIV infection in controlled clinical trials, seven leading AIDS organizations are urging the U.S. government to act quickly to determine if the results could translate to the real world. Today, at an HIV prevention meeting hosted by the U.S.read moreMore than four people in 10 diagnosed with HIV do not remain in care, a CDC analysis suggests.
This is the second in our series of daily re-caps from the National HIV Prevention Conference underway now in Atlanta. This biennial meeting focuses exclusively on the full spectrum of HIV prevention, giving public health professionals, community organizations, clinicians, researchers, advocates and leaders from the HIV/AIDS community an opportunity to exchange information about effective prevention...People recently infected with syphilis are also likely to be co-infected with HIV, with men who have sex with men hardest hit, a CDC researcher reported.An investigational four-drug HIV pill was not inferior to a widely used single-pill, three-drug antiretroviral combination, according to the company that makes both.
The following is a blog post by Center for Global Health Policy Director Christine Lubinski, who is travelling in Kenya this week with a group of staffers from key U.S. Congressional offices. On day one of a week long visit to HIV and TB programs in Kenya, we visited the Mbagathi District Hospital hosted by [...](Read more...)WASHINGTON -- The FDA has approved a second once-daily tablet for HIV -- this one combining three medications: emtricitabine, rilpivirine, and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate.
A person's ability to battle viruses at the cellular level remarkably resembles the way deadly infectious agents called prions misfold and cluster native proteins to cause disease, UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists report. This study marks the first discovery of so-called "good" prion-like proteins in human cells and the first to find such proteins involved in innate immunity: the way the body recognizes and responds to threats from viruses or other external agents, said Dr. Zhijian "James" Chen, professor of molecular biology and senior author of the study in the Aug. 5 print edition of the journal Cell.......