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Thursday, July 03, 2008 |
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Life Con Honored For Work Educating Inmates About HIV(The Canadian Press & 365Gay.com) An Ontario man serving a life sentence for killing a policeman is to be honored for years of efforts to educate prison inmates about how to lower their risk of becoming infected with HIV. The Canadian HIV-AIDS Legal Network and Human Rights Watch announced Monday that they are giving their 2008 Canadian Award for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights to Peter Collins.
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Many People Who Know, Trust Sex Partners Assume Low Risk of HIV, Other STIs(Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report) Many people who know their sexual partners well consider themselves to be at a low risk of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, according to a study published in the June issue of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Reuters reports.
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GlobalHealthFacts.org Launches Custom Data Sheets(Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report) "New Custom Data Sheets Available on GlobalHealthFacts.org," Kaiser Family Foundation: Visitors to GlobalHealthFacts.org can now create customized data sheets that compare up to five countries with any or all of the approximately 100 health, demographic and economic indicators on the Web site. Data sheets can be viewed online, converted into a PDF file, printed, e-mailed or saved. The data sheets are created in three steps to provide health profiles for a particular country, compare countries or present an overview of a global health issue (Kaiser Family Foundation release, 6/19).
>> Click Here for Health Facts
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2008 High Level Meeting on AIDSThe focus of this United Nations' General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS meeting was to review progress achieved in realizing the commitments set out in the Declaration of Committment. >> Click Here for Links to Sessions
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One-Third of Status-Aware HIV-Positive MSM in U.K. Still Practicing Risky Sexual Behavior(Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report/Medical Research Council) About one-third of HIV-positive men who have sex with men in the United Kingdom who are aware of their status are still engaging in risky sexual behavior, according to a study recently released by the Medical Research Council, BBC News reports. According to the study -- which included 3,500 MSM -- participants who knew that they were HIV-positive were statistically more likely to have unprotected sex than those who did not know or were HIV-negative. (Click Here for Kaiser Review)
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HIV Diagnoses Among MSM Ages 13-24 Increased by 12% Annually From 2001 to 2006,(Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report) The number of new HIV diagnoses recorded between 2001 and 2006 among men who have sex with men ages 13 to 24 increased by 12.4% annually, according to a study published Thursday in CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the New York Times reports. Some experts said the findings are an "ominous ... indicator" that the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to flourish among MSM, the Times reports. For the study, CDC analyzed data from 33 states but did not include statistics from states with large minority and MSM populations, including California, Illinois and Georgia (Tuller, New York Times, 6/27). The study found that of the 214,379 HIV diagnoses recorded during the study period, 46% were among MSM.
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NYC Urges Docs To Do Routine HIV Testing On Adults(CBS News) Health officials are trying to persuade doctors to offer HIV tests to nearly every patient in a New York City community hit harder than most by AIDS. Under a new program announced Thursday, officials have set an ambitious goal of testing a quarter million adults in the Bronx, one of five boroughs that make up New York City, within three years. "We need every single individual to know their status," said Dr. Monica Sweeney, an assistant health commissioner who specializes in HIV prevention. Like dozens of other states, New York now requires doctors to obtain a patient's written consent and provide a brief counseling session before giving them a test for the AIDS virus, a process that can take up to 20 minutes. That's enough to deter doctors and nurses from suggesting HIV tests to patients routinely, according to the city.
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Study Examines Death Rates for People Newly Diagnosed With HIV(Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report) In the five years after their diagnosis, people living with HIV in developed countries and receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy are no more likely to die than HIV-negative people, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Reuters reports (Kahn, Reuters, 7/1). (Study available online)
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New TB Test That Quickly Diagnoses MDR-TB(Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report) The World Health Organization, Stop TB Partnership, UNITAID and the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics on Monday announced a joint project to distribute a new diagnostic test for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis that can produce results in two days instead of the standard two or three months, the New York Times reports. Difficulty in identifying MDR-TB has been a "major obstacle" in controlling TB because many patients die or spread the disease while waiting for test results, the Times reports.
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HIV Edmonton's Annual ReportHIV Edmonton's Annual Report was released at our recent Annual General Meeting on June 26th, 2008. We are pleased to include a copy in this E-Update for your review. Click Here for Annual Report
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Online Coverage of the XVII International AIDS Conference
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