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HIV/AIDS Related News – Gathered August 2011
August 1, 2011 | No CommentsHere are some noteworthy HIV/AIDS stories that have been gathered in the month of August: New York City Will Mandate Sex Education (from New York Times) For the first time in nearly two decades, students in New York City’s public middle and high schools will be required to take sex-education classes beginning this school [...]
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A Special Message: 30 Years of HIV/AIDS
May 23, 2011 | No CommentsIn 1992 respected music manager Bob Caviano wrote an editorial in Billboard magazine disclosing his HIV status and illness and challenging the industry to take action. Several high-level executives heeded his call and Lifebeat was formed. Here we are 20 years later and 30 years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic and Lifebeat remains dedicated to using [...]
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National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2011
February 7, 2011 | No CommentsFebruary 7th is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD), a day dedicated to driving home the importance of testing and treatment within the Black/African-American community. Several national organizations have partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to create events geared towards members of the community hardest hit by HIV/AIDS. While this year’s NBHAAD [...]
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A Little PrEP Goes A Long way
February 3, 2011 | No CommentsIn January 2011 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued interim guidelines for HIV prevention via pre-exposure prophylaxis also known as PrEP, to health care providers. A daily PrEP regimen would be given to a high-risk, HIV negative patient to help prevent HIV in the case of accidental exposure. So far PrEP has [...]
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Condom Distribution Programs Work
November 4, 2010 | No CommentsCondom Distribution (CD) programs do work! We’ve known it for quite some time but the Center for Disease Control (CDC) has issued new findings about the efficacy of condom distribution programs. Interventions that combined CD programs with additional individual-, group- community-level activities showed the greatest efficacy. One possible reason for this is that these different [...]
