Tuesday, July 15, 2008

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In this issue:
• HIV Edmonton Report to the Community
• Visual AIDS
• The Body Pro
• Aggressive HIV Treatment Programs Could Reduce New HIV Cases Up to 60%
• Women Who Use Microbicides, Still Contract HIV
• Gay online soap opera has a serious message
• Counseling During Drug Addiction Treatment Reduces Unsafe Sexual Behavior Among People At Risk of HIV
• Roche To Stop Antiretroviral Research

HIV Edmonton Report to the Community

If you are only familiar with HIV Edmonton as it looked 22 years ago, you might not recognize us today. Our organization, once run entirely by devoted volunteers, is now led by core staff supported by passionate volunteers, members, partners, sponsors, and donors. Our focus, while still primarily on our local community and clients, has evolved to encompass the provincial and national AIDS movements, bringing the strength of numbers to the fight against HIV/AIDS here in Edmonton, throughout Alberta, and across the nation.

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Visual AIDS

Our own Ted Kerr recently spent a month in New York City interning with Visual AIDS.  
Visual AIDS strives to increase public awareness of AIDS through the visual arts, creating programs of exhibitions, events and publications, and working in partnership with artists, galleries, museums and AIDS organizations. By mobilizing the visual arts communities, Visual AIDS raises money to provide direct services to artists living with HIV/AIDS. Click the following links for two accounts of Ted's experience;  AIDS/ART/WORK - review by Ted Kerr, and What I did on my Summer Vacation

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The Body Pro

Latest HIV Research & News for Health Care Professionals.

Included in this issue:    

• HIV JournalView
• HIV Treatment 
• HIV Transmission & Testing
• HIV in the U.S. News
• HIV Throughout the World
• HIV Epidemiology
• Complications of HIV/HAART

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Aggressive HIV Treatment Programs Could Reduce New HIV Cases Up to 60%

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Women Who Use Microbicides, Still Contract HIV

Could End Up With Fewer Treatment Options Because of Resistance, Study Finds 
(Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report)      Women who use microbicides in an effort to protect themselves from HIV could end up with fewer treatment options if they contract the virus because of possible drug resistance, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Reuters reports.   For the study, Sally Blower of the University of California-Los Angeles and David Wilson of the University of New South Wales used data from ongoing trials of microbicides, along with what is known about how HIV develops resistance to existing medicines and how consistently people use drugs and condoms. If an eventual microbicide was not 100% effective and if women did not use it consistently, then a certain percentage of women could contract HIV, according to the researchers' model. Some of these women would continue using the microbicide but not adhere to antiretroviral combination therapies and, thus, would develop resistance.

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Gay online soap opera has a serious message

Los Angeles Times Examines Online Soap Opera That Aims To Raise HIV Awareness Among MSM    (Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report)    The Los Angeles Times on Friday (July 11, 2008) examined an online soap opera that aims to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and promote safer-sex practices among men who have sex with men. According to the Times, the show is part of a "wave of new programs" that aims to "reinvigorate" HIV/AIDS outreach in the MSM community.  The show, called "In the Moment," is a "racy, unvarnished portrait" of MSM in Los Angeles, but "at its core" is about HIV/AIDS, the Times reports. The first episode was released in January and introduced the multicultural cast, including two characters named Mike and Steve who have unprotected sex. (Click Here for Kaiser Article)

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Counseling During Drug Addiction Treatment Reduces Unsafe Sexual Behavior Among People At Risk of HIV

(Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report)    Counseling about sexual behavior during drug addiction treatment could help reduce unsafe sexual behavior among people at risk of HIV in Russia, according to a study recently published in the journal Addiction, ANI/New Kerala reports. According to ANI/New Kerala, the researchers focused on "substance-dependent" individuals in Russia because alcohol use is highly pervasive in the country, and it has been linked with risky sexual behavior.  For the study, Jeffrey Samet -- chief of general internal medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center -- and colleagues compared the current method used to reduce unsafe sexual behavior in standard addiction treatment programs in the country with the Russian Partnership To Reduce the Epidemic via Engagement in Narcology Treatment, or PREVENT, intervention program

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Roche To Stop Antiretroviral Research

(Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report)    Pharmaceutical company Roche in a memo circulated last week announced that it will stop research on antiretroviral drugs because of "disappointing results in clinical trials," the Financial Times reports. According to the memo, which was sent to HIV/AIDS specialists and advocates, Roche has canceled its program to research compounds that were targeting two different ways to attack HIV. The company stressed that it will continue to manufacture its current antiretrovirals -- Fuzeon, Viracept and Invirase -- as well as its HIV diagnostic test and other treatments related to the disease.  According to the Times, the move to abandon research on antiretrovirals reflects the company's decision to focus on drugs that provide "significant improvement" to existing medicines available from competitors.

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AIDS Walk for Life 2008

September 21, 2008  At Edmonton City Hall
Show your support & plan to join us.  Save the Date!

Edmonton's Queer Arts & Cultural Festival

Stay up with Edmonton's most exciting festival.   Exposure Festival is an emerging festival now entering its second year of presentation that uncovers, highlights and celebrates queer arts and culture.  Check out Exposure: Edmonton's Queer Arts and Culture Festival's new blog!  2008 Call for Artists

Employment Opportunities

Old Strathcona Youth Society
- Executive Director
KIDS Now
- Volunteer Management Coordinator
NorQuest College
- Adult Literacy-ESL Instructors
Mediation & Restorative Justice Centre 
- Case Coordinator, 20 hrs/wk.
Alberta Committee of Citizens with Disabilities
- Administrative Assistant
The Mustard Seed (Edmonton)
- Manager of Volunteer Development
The City of Edmonton 
- Community Development Social Worker

Online Coverage of the XVII International AIDS Conference

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