National Minority AIDS Council Building Healthier Communities
Building Leadership in Communities of Color to Address HIV/AIDS
January - February 2010
January - February 2010
February 23
AIDS.gov -FDA Advises Patients and Care Providers on Drug Combination Safety Considerations
AAAS Meeting Examines Test-And-Treat Model's Potential For Fighting HIV Spread, TB Co-Infection
News Outlets Examine ART, Microbicide Development Research Presented At Conference
ViiV
Healthcare Presents New Data From HIV/AIDS Portfolio Demonstrating Research
Advances And Commitment To Patient Care At Conference On Retroviruses
News
Outlets Examine ART, Microbicide Development Research Presented At
Conference
Miss.
Lawmakers Consider Sex Education Legislation
February 22
AIDS.gov - ONAP Announces Federal Interagency Members Developing National HIV/AIDS
Strategy
Senate Advances $15 Billion Jobs Bill
White House Releases Details of Its Health Reform Proposal
Michigan
Group Promotes HIV Testing Among Black Sororities
Routine HIV
Testing Proving Successful in Washington, DC
Testing
and Treatment Tied to Fewer New HIV Cases in S.F. & Vancouver
Studies
Halt HIV
Spread In 5 Years With Test And Treat Plan Says Expert
The 2010
Distinguished Scientist Award Goes To John Greenspan
Recent
Releases In Global Health
News
Outlets Examine HIV Vaccine Research, Cervical Cancer Screening Data Presented
At Conference
Blogs
Comment On College Abstinence Clubs, Abortion Coverage Bans, Other Topics
Comprehensive Sex Education Program That Emphasizes Abstinence 'Reasonable Approach, Opinion Piece Says
Christian Pastors Call On Va. Lawmakers To Cut Funding For Planned
Parenthood
February 21
UNAIDS Welcomes South Africa's New US$ 1.1 Billion Investment On AIDS For 2010
Extending Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment Could Dramatically
Reduce Illness Among HIV-Positive Individuals In Many Areas Of The World
February 20
HIV and Heart Disease Risks
February 19
ACLU Sues USAID Over Religion-Based Abstinence-Only Programs Overseas
HIV-Positive
Ottawa Man Faces Three Years for Not Disclosing
Phase II
HIV Gene Therapy Trial Data At CROI 2010 Presented By Penn Researchers
VIRxSYS
Announces At CROI Promising Results From Its HIV Vaccine Study
Also In
Global Health News: HIV Prevention Strategies For Couples; Humanitarian
Operations In Somalia; Gender Rights; Health Clinic In Uganda
State
Policy Developments: Wisconsin's New 'Public Option,' Iowa's Medical Marijuana
Vote, And More
HIV
Prevention Strategies Often Overlook Long-Term Couples In Africa, Researchers
Say
CDC
Announces Leadership Posts In Global Health, Other Areas
Countries Urged To Review Progress Made In Achieving National AIDS
Targets
Study
Integrating Family Planning And HIV Treatment & Care Funded By The Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation
Videos
Discuss Obama Nominees, Contraceptive Methods, Health Reform Prospects
Texas
Should Re-Evaluate Abstinence-Only Sex Education Policies, Opinion Piece
States
Program
Provides Menstrual Kits To Reduce School Absenteeism In Kenya
Virginia
Senate Approves Bill To Create 'Trust Women. Respect Choice.' License Plates
New
Research Shows Emotional Impact Of Low Sexual Desire And Associated Distress On
Women
Breast
Cancer Impact On Same Sex Couples
Study
Integrating Family Planning And HIV Treatment & Care Funded By The Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation
February 18
Study: Uncomfortable Condoms Increase Unsafe Sex
Human
Health Benefits Predicted Following Sequencing Of Southern African Genomes
UNAIDS:
Swaziland Needs Greater Response to HIV/AIDS
Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Data Support Further Development Of Tobira's Next-Generation CCR5 Receptor Antagonist
New
Study Compares Efficacy And Safety Of Once-Daily Versus Twice-Daily PREZISTA(R)
Regimen In Treatment-Experienced Adult Patients
Ill-Fitting Condoms Contribute To Improper Use, Study Finds
Newspapers Publish Opinion Pieces, Editorials On Sex Education
State
Legislatures, Ballot Measures Address Abortion-Related Issues
February 17
AIDS.gov - What is the United State's Plan to Respond to HIV on the Home Front?
National AIDS Strategy Public Meeting
CDC - Latest Report on Nation's Health Shows Growing Medical Technology Use
AHF/Magic Johnson HIV Testing Tour To Stop At Seven 'Historically Black Colleges'
Also In
Global Health News: Boosting Banana Production; Measles Vaccines In Bangladesh;
NTDs; Burkina Faso Maternal Care; Health Care, HIV In S.A.
AP
Examines Male Circumcision Efforts In Africa, Including Adult Circumcision
Devices
Washington Times Column Discusses Role Of Condoms In Reducing
Spread Of Chlamydia
Bill To
Expand Insurance Coverage Of Contraception For Teens Fuels Debate In West
Va.
New York
Times Editorial Praises DOD Decision To Stock Emergency Contraception At
Military Facilities
Latest
Abstinence Study Does Little To Quell Sex Education Debate
Rise Of
Sexual Predators In Oil And Gas Boomtowns Highlights Social Problems Of Large
Scale Energy Projects
Terrence
Higgins Trust To Offer Chlamydia Testing In Leeds Bars And Clubs, UK
February 16
AIDS.gov -New Avenues for Expression and Engagement with Youth around Sexual Health
Information
Award Winners Take Steps Toward Better Teaching Tools, Improved DNA Analysis And Maybe Even A Lower-Cost HIV Drug
HIV Drug
Resistance Lasts About One Year In Women Treated With Nevirapine To Prevent
Infection Of Infants
HIV-Associated Morbidity In Adolescents
Neonatal
And Infant Circumcision: Safe In The Right Hands
February 9
What if Your Organization Doesn't Have Enough Computers to go Around? (Features NMAC's EAI program)
February 8
Recent Releases In Global Health
Congressmen, Citing Reports Of Fraud, Seek Accounting For AIDS
Funding
Quality
Of Caregiver Relationship Is Crucial For HIV-Infected Children
February 7
Some answers presented on National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (Examiner.com)
NMAC to Honor 10th Anniversary of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (GayAgenda.com)
NMAC Honors The Tenth Annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (Hamptons.com)
Vaccine Awareness on Black AIDS Day
Statement of Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National
Institutes of Health on National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day February 7,
2010
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. February 7, 2010 (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
Now available: Podcast of August 8 interview between Ravinia Hayes-Cozier, NMAC's Spokesperson and Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, and BlogTalkRadio personality Joy Keys now available. Podcast also includes remarks from AIDS activist Hydeia Broadbent.
February 5
President's Budget for HIV/AIDS at HHS
The Budget and Beyond -- A Call to Action for the HIV/AIDS Community and Government Officials
The
Budget and Beyond -- A Call to Action for the HIV/AIDS Community and Government
Officials What
We Need Beyond Increased Funding to End HIV/AIDS in the U.S. (An editorial by Ravinia Hayes-Cozier, NMAC's Spokesperson and Director
of Government Relations and Public Policy) (BlackRadioNetwork.com; MinorityNewsService.net; MinorityNews.net)
$4.25 Million For HIV Research In Geneva
Novel
Therapies Could Improve Potency Of Existing AIDS Treatments, Help To Combat
Drug-Resistant Virus Strains
February 4
Destination Casa Blanca Webcast - "What Happened to Health Care Reform?"
NPR Examines Obama Administration's Global Family Planning Policies
New
African Union Chair's Focus To Include Food Security; First Ladies Discuss
HIV/AIDS
GSK's Interest In NTDs; Kenya's Male Circumcision Drive; Dengue Fever; HIV
Prevention In Jamaica; Food Shortages In Zimbabwe
New
Study Of Abstinence-Only Program Has Limitations, Experts Say
Local
Youth Groups Mark LGBT History Month With Two Exhibitions At Coventry Venues,
UK
American
Journal of Public Health 2009 October: A Review of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis
Among Blacks in the United States, 1981–2009
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. "Racial/Ethnic Disparities Among Children with Diagnoses of Perinatal HIV Infection — 34 States, 2004-2007"
February 3
Premature Aging of the Brain Seen in HIV Patients
$119.5 Million in State Awards Announced as Part of Recovery Act Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative
The Budget and Beyond -- A Call to Action for the HIV/AIDS Community and Government Officials What We Need Beyond Increased Funding to End HIV/AIDS in the U.S. (An editorial by Ravinia Hayes-Cozier, NMAC's Spokesperson and Director of Government Relations and Public Policy)
ASO Director Interviews done at the 2009 USCA
Obama
underfunding HIV/AIDS
programs? | Portland Observer
Jazz Pianist
Fred Hersch Flourishes in Spite of AIDS-Related Dementia, Coma
IAS
Urges G20 World Leaders to Renew Fight for Universal Access to HIV
Treatment
Study:
“Abstinence-Only” Delays Sexual Activity in Pre-Teens
ADAP Advocacy Association Praises Obama's FY2011
Budget for including $20 Million Increase for the AIDS Drug Assistance Programs;
Urges Support for FY2010 Emergency Supplemental to Alleviate Growing ADAP
Waiting Lists Nationwide
February 2
Secretary Sebelius Announces Members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS
Secretary Sebelius Announces Members Of The Presidential Advisory
Council on HIV/AIDS
Secretary
Sebelius Welcomes Members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS
Also In
Global Health News: Retrovirus Enzyme; Audit Of USAID Program; Africa's
Agriculture
Experimental Vaccine Reduced TB Rate Among HIV-Positive People In
Tanzania, Study Finds
More
Details On Obama's Global Health Strategy Expected Along With Budget Release,
Wall Street Journal Reports
More
Details On Obama's Global Health Strategy Expected Along With Budget Release,
Wall Street Journal Reports
FDA
Announces Safety Risk Associated With HIV Drug
Health
Information Technology Use Among Men and Women Aged 18-64: Early
Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey,
January-June 2009 (February 2010) [PDF - 100 KB]
February 1
After 20 Years Of Trying, HIV Researchers Solve Key Puzzle
Clinical
Trial Proves New Vaccine Effective In Preventing TB In African Patients With HIV
Infection
Alternatives To Natural Latex From Asia Sought By Europe
New
Emergency Contraceptive Prevents Pregnancy Up To Five Days, Study Finds
ADAP Advocacy Association Releases Inaugural Congressional
Scorecard; Majority of Congress Makes the Grade on Supporting
ADAPs
Fighting AIDS with Lessons Learned from Black History by Regan Hofmann (Profile of Phil Wilson in POZ.com.)
FY
2011 Budget Press Conference Opening Remarks, HHS Speeches by Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
New Miss
America Champions HIV Awareness
South
Africa: Military to Recruit HIV-Positive Soldiers
Takeover
of St. Vincent’s in NYC Would Retain Hospital’s HIV Services
January 31
UNAIDS Commends Commitment By The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation To Advancing Vaccine Research And Development
Sexual
Orientation Affects Risk Of Bullying In Teens
"Haiti: Past, Present & Future" on Destination Casa Blanca
January 30
Immune Memory Formation Seen In Early Stages Of Viral Infection
January 29
USAID Grants $5 Million to Kenyan HIV Program and Indiana University
Minnesota
to Launch HIV Education Programs for Young MSM
Activists:
NYC’s Proposed Budget Would Cut HIV, Housing Services
U.S.
Food And Drug Administration Approves Labeling Update For PREZISTA(R) To Include
96-Week Data In HIV-1 Infected Adult Patients
New
Vaccine Effective In Preventing TB In HIV-positive Patients
January 28
Canada Stalls Plans for HIV Vaccine Production Facility
Man
Uses Needles Allegedly Containing HIV as Weapon in Robberies
Poltergeist
Actress and HIV Activist Zelda Rubinstein Dies at 76
Help
for Haiti - AIDS.gov Blog
State
News: A Doctor Shortage In New Jersey, A Plan To Expand Health Care In Iowa And
More
NARAL
Co-Founder Proskauer Smith Dies
Study
Examines Reproductive Coercion Of Female Teens By Partners
Rise In
Teen Pregnancy Rate Invigorates Debate Over Federally Funded Abstinence-Only
Programs
Rise In
Teen Pregnancy Rate Invigorates Debate Over Federally Funded Abstinence-Only
Programs
January 27
National AIDS Task Force Expected To Accelerate Drug Development ...
Let's Talk about AIDS (References Salt'n'Peppa's benefit for NMAC, "Let's Talk about AIDS" based on their hit single, "Let's Talk about Sex.")
Bill
Gates Talks HIV Prevention, Vaccines in 2010 Annual Letter
New HIV
Diagnoses Reach 17-Year High in Minnesota
Minnesota HIV Statistics Point To Troubling Increase In Young
Adults; Particularly In Young Gay/Bisexual Men
Budget
Realities Are Rippling Through States' Health Institutions
U.S.
Needs Domestic PEPFAR To Coordinate National HIV/AIDS Strategy, Opinion Piece
Says
Particle
Sciences To Participate In CHAARM, A Global Effort To Develop An HIV Prevention
Strategy
THT
Launches 'Fastest' One-Hour HIV Testing In Gloucester, UK
Blogs
Comment On Antiabortion Super Bowl Ad, Health Reform Prospects, Other Topics
January 26
Study: Demand for HIV Vaccine Will Depend on How Good It Is
January 25
More HIV Cases Arise Long After China’s Blood Buying Scandal
PrEP
Prevents Rectal and Intravenous Transmission in Mice
The Man Who Could Beat AIDS (article about Dr. David Ho)
January 22, 2010
HIV Activist, UNAIDS Staffer Eric Sawyer Carries the Olympic Torch
Study:
Herpes Therapy Does Not Reduce HIV Transmission Risk
HIV-Positive
Former Olympic Equestrian Arrested for Not Disclosing to Partner
January 21, 2010
Rockland, N.Y., Day Camp Found Guilty of HIV Discrimination
Illinois
ADAP Faces Budget Cuts as Enrollment Predicted to Spike
No
Approval (Yet) for Merck’s HIV Drug Vicriviroc
January 20, 2010
Study:
High-Risk Populations Might Not Accept an HIV Vaccine
New
Guidance To Improve The HIV Response For Men Who Have Sex With Men In Africa
Positive
Lessons From HIV Home-Based Care
U.S.
Justice Department Settles HIV Discrimination Suit in Alabama
New
Guidance To Improve The HIV Response For Men Who Have Sex With Men In Africa
Also In
Global Health News: HIV Vaccine; Chile To Provide Free 'Emergency
Contraception'; China Indoor Smoking Ban; Malaria Clinical Trials
Sangamo BioSciences Announces Presentation Of Preliminary Data From Phase 1 Safety Trial Of SB-728-T For HIV/AIDS
Providers
Need Additional Training to Improve Patient HIV Treatment Adherence
Helping
One at a Time
New
Study Provides More Proof That Withholding HIV Treatments Led To Thousands Of
Deaths In South Africa
January 19, 2010
No Charges Filed Against Detroit Woman for Online HIV Hoax
Johns
Hopkins Awarded $8 Million for HIV Eradication Research
U.S.
Student’s African AIDS Charity Is Finalist in $1 Million Facebook
Contest
African
American Conference on AIDS
on Life Support? Blog by Larry Bryant
|
January 19, 2010
African American Conference on AIDS on Life Support? - Larry's POZ Blog (mentions NMAC) |