Prevention News

Following are links to the Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report (and occasionally other sources) and summaries from the CDC HIV/STD/TB Prevention News Update.

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March News

Call for urgent action to improve coverage of HIV services for injecting drug users
UNAIDS - 10 March 2010
http://www.aegis.org/news/unaids/2010/UN100316.html

A review carried out by the 2009 Reference Group to the UN on HIV and Injecting Drug Use for the first time quantifies the scale of coverage of HIV prevention, treatment, and care services for injecting drug users (IDUs) worldwide. The study concludes that with, specific exceptions, worldwide coverage of these services in IDU populations is very low and unlikely to be sufficient to prevent, halt, or turn around HIV epidemics.
The paper, published by The Lancet in its online edition of 1 March 2010, also highlights the need for improved data collection on injecting drug users in each region in order to get a clearer picture of the extent of their needs

D.C. to be first U.S. city to give away free female condoms to fight HIV/AIDS
By Darryl Fears Washington Post (3.6.10)

The District will become the first city in the United States to distribute female condoms free, part of a project that will make 500,000 of them available in beauty salons, convenience stores and high schools in parts of the city with high HIV rates.

New Directions for Prevention Funding From HAPIS

HAPIS Prevention Consultant Leanne Savola talked about some of the new stipulations for this year's HAPIS prevention grantees at the Michigan HIV/AIDS Council (MHAC) Orientation for new members. See the video below.

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