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2/8 - Sunday was Black AIDS Awareness Day
- Michigan's Black AIDS Awareness
Campaign continues - See
what's going on for
BAAC in your community.
2/5 -
Job Opportunities all over the state! Racial/Ethnic Disparities
Among Children with Diagnoses of Perinatal HIV Infection - See
MMWR reports.
"Abstinence Programs Might Work, Report Says" -
See Teen News.
Ingham County gets publicity for BAAC - See
Michigan News. Health
spending a winner in Obama budget -
See National News.
2/3 -
President's Budget for Global
Health Far Short of What's Needed Experts say - See
National News.
Funding Available to build
capacity of Youth Serving Agencies for HIV prevention.
New from Journal Watch
HIV/AIDS Clinical Care - See Medical Briefs.
2/2 -
Statement of Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. on Black HIV/AIDS Awareness - See
Minority News. Secretary
Sebelius Announces Members of the Presidential Advisory Council on
HIV/AIDS; and "White House Proposes 9 Percent Increase in Global Health
Funding" - See National News.
2/1 - Black
AIDS Awareness Campaign (BAAC)
begins in Michigan.
Catholic Charities to give syringes to drug users in Upstate
New York - See Prevention News.
FDA Advises Serious Liver Disorder
Associated with the Use of Videx/Videx EC (Didanosine) - See
Drug Warnings.
"Merck Reps Banned from US AIDS Clinics over Drug Costs"
- See National News.
1/29 - "Older African Americans'
Management of HIV/AIDS Stigma" - See
Minority News.
1/28 - African
American AIDS Advisory Committee Chair Leon Golson talks about upcoming
Black AIDS Awareness Campaign - See Michigan News;
and the Kick-off Event - See Minority News.
1/27 -
New insights on MI HIV Epidemic - See
Surveillance in Michigan.
New Longer Lasting NNRTI Could Also Be Microbicide;
Latest report on the D:A:D Study and more
- See Medical Briefs.
David Ho: The Man Who Could Beat AIDS - See
Vaccine Research. "The Male Sexual
Partners of Adult Versus Teen Women with Sexually Transmitted
Infections" - See Medical (STD) News.
1/26 - "AIDS Victims Not Forgotten in Haiti
Quake Chaos" - See World News.
Canadian Study finds Fewer HIV
Patients Becoming Drug-Resistant - See
Medical Briefs. Guttmacher Institute
Reports Rise in Teen Pregnancy after More than Decade of Progress - See
Teen News.
1/21 - "AIDS and Depression: Ohio
University Tests HIV Phone Therapy"
& "Merck Won't Seek FDA Approval for HIV Drug"
- See Care News. DMC seeks Behavioral Health Therapist
and Care/Case Manager - And More MI
Career Ops.
1/20 - January
1, 2010 Michigan HIV/AIDS Statistics.
Reducing sex under the influence in SA treatment; Drug-resistant HIV
strains are on the rise and improving their ability to transfer from
person to person, CA study shows - See
Prevention Research. Half of teen girls have STIs by 2 years of
first sex - See Teen News. Latest News from
Journal Watch:
HIV/AIDS Clinical Care - See Medical Briefs;
and STD Research in Medical News.
BAAC Schedule of Events
Around the State. Winter 2010 Issue of mental
health AIDS Released - See Resources.
Grants available
(up to $25,000) to support grassroots efforts which increase awareness
on critical health initiatives through health walks, health fairs and
health education outreach. "Hoax
Video Seen as 'Public Service'"
puts Detroit on the map - See Michigan News.
"Housing Works CEO Blogs from Haiti" - See
World News.
1/15 - Latest studies on HCV
treatment - See Medical News.
1/14 - APM
seeks Social Networks
Recruitment/Outreach Specialist - See Career Ops.
Black AIDS Awareness Campaign Resources - See
BAAC. Answers to Frequent Questions
to new shipping address for tests -
HIV Surveillance in Michigan.
1/12 -
Latino Mentoring Training Institute - See
Minority News. HIV Therapy Changes Do
Not Seem to Impair Treatment Success; & Postpartum Resistance to HIV
Drugs - See Medical Briefs. Clinical
trial uses new gene-editing technique to remove a major doorway HIV -
See Basic Research.
1/11 - Upcoming
Prevention/Outreach Worker Certification
Training. Medicare HIV screening may
also boost testing in younger pops - See
National News.
Partnering for Success: How Health
Departments Work and How to Work with Health Departments, a new
resource for those who work with youth - See
Teen Resources. An online interview
with Grand Rapids Red Project NEP coordinator - See
News Around the State.
Institute of
Medicine's Report on Viral Hepatitis released - See
Medical (hepatitis) News.
1/7 - New
contacts at the DHWDC Training Unit along
with 2010 Training Calendar.
City Urged to Withdraw Flier on ‘Safer’
Heroin Use that Some See as a How-To Guide - See
Prevention News.
1/6 -
Researchers find ways to block HIV infections - See
Basic Research
1/5 -
The End of America's HIV Ban - See National News;
UN Secretary-General applauds the removal of entry
restrictions based on HIV status - See World
News. 2010 MI
Schedules Available - See the Program
Review Panel Meetings and Materials Submission deadlines, the
MHAC Meetings and the
DHWDC Training Schedule. Updated
User
Friendly Manual for PWAs in Detroit EMA - See
Care News. Journal Watch physician-editors offer their
perspective on the year's most important
stories in HIV medicine - See Medical
Briefs. Career
Opportunities around the State.
1/4 -
NASTAD
Reviews
National Processes Affecting HIV, STD and Viral Hepatitis Prevention -
See Prevention News.
Second
Study to indicate detection of
Acute HIV Infection offers critical prevention opportunities
- See Prevention Research. "US Lawmakers
Condemn Anti-Gay Uganda Legislation" - See National
News. President Obama speech as he signs Ryan White Reauthorization
on YouTube - See Care News archives.
12/23 -
Detroit Issues Ryan White Part A RFP for Competitive Funding -
See Grant Funding Opportunities.
12/22 - Detroit
Issues Ryan White Part A RFP for Continuation of Funding - See
News Around the State. "US
Ends Funding Ban for Needle Exchanges" - See
Prevention News. "HPV Vaccine Shows
Long-Term Efficacy" - See Medical (STD)
News. See the latest Journal Watch Clinical Care: "HIV Outcomes in
the Clinic now as Good as in Clinical Trials" in
Medical Briefs.
New Teen Pregnancy
Prevention Initiative
- See Teen News.
12/17 - LAAN
seeks Medical Case Manager - See Career
Opportunities. "Symptomatic Primary HIV
Infection... Beware the Window Phase" - See
Medical Briefs. "Anti-Gay Bill May Cost Uganda Research Institution"
- See World News. ETR
Educational Materials SALE! 50%
off today and tomorrow.
12/15 - New York and the Nation
Mourn the Loss of Champion for Latinos Living with HIV/AIDS - See
Memorials. Program
Collaboration and Service Integration, new CDC paper - See
Prevention News.
12/14 - Easing restrictions on
the use of federal funding for NEPs nationwide just needs Obama
signature - See National News.
Obama's changes to PEPFAR criticized - See
World News. Upcoming
Training on Social Networking by the CORE
Project; and see how activists in New York are turning to
social networking to overcome fatigue about HIV/AIDS awareness in
Prevention News. Planning underway for
regional women's conference - See MWAC subweb.
"Black Clergy Sounds the AIDS Alarm" in Detroit - See
Minority News.
Microbicide Fails in
African Trials. 2009 Quality Assurance Standards for HIV
Counseling, Testing, and Referral Data
now available on the web.
12/11 - HIV
serum testing moving to Lansing effective January 1, 2010
- See Surveillance in MI.
"Half of Teen Girls Have STIs by 2 Years of First Sex" - See
Teen News. Antiviral Therapy to
Treat Hepatitis C Is Declining in the US - See
Medical (HCV) News. Medicare
Expands List of Covered
Preventive Services to Include HIV Screening Tests - See
Prevention News. NIAID 2009 H1N1
Vaccine Study Now Enrolling HIV-Infected Adults; Study of males with HIV
Suggests an Increased Prevalence and Severity of Coronary
Atherosclerosis- See Medical Briefs.
UCLA Research:Stem cells can be
engineered to kill HIV - See Basic Research.
12/10 -
Revised MMWR -
HIV-Associated Behaviors Among Injecting-Drug Users.
12/9 - Conspiracy Beliefs About HIV Are
Related to Antiretroviral Treatment Nonadherence Among African-American
Men with HIV - See Medical Briefs.
Milwaukee Public Schools to Discuss Providing Condoms to Students
- See Teen News.
12/8 -
Advocates for Youth Anti-Homophobia and Transphobia Project
GRANT.
12/7 -
Optimizing Prevention
Efforts in MI - Reports from the HAPIS webinar. New
Report Shows 97 Medicines And Vaccines Currently In Development For
HIV/AIDS; "FDA: HIV Drug Lexiva Label to Warn
of Cholesterol Increases" & more drug labeling updates - See
Medical Briefs. Study of pilot
surveillance and screening program to detect acute HIV infection (AHI) -
See Prevention Research.
The last
MHAC Meeting presentations focused on YMSM - See these PowerPoint
Presentations in Statewide Planning.
12/3 -
Gearing Up for 6th Annual Black AIDS Awareness Campaign - See
Michigan News. CDC warns of Phishing Scam -
See National News.
Live Webcast. tomorrow at
9:30 a.m. ET Town Hall with Ambassador Eric Goosby, U.S. Global AIDS
Coordinator. "US Unveils Five-Year Plan to
Fight AIDS Worldwide" - See World News.
Pregnancy as a Window of Opportunity for HIV Prevention
- See Prevention Research.
Drug efficacies compared in Medical
Briefs. Meeting to advise SSA on revised HIV Listings - See
National Meetings.
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