The Kaiser Family Foundation today launched Kaiser Fast Facts, a new component of its kff.org Web site, featuring QuickTakes and Kaiser Slides – two new tools providing direct access to facts, data and slides about the nation's health care system and programs, in an easy-to-use format.
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International Narcotics Control Board 'Out of Step' With HIV/AIDS Control Efforts
(Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report) The International Narcotics Control Board "remains out of step" with the rest of the United Nations' efforts to fight the spread of HIV, especially among injection drug users, and its practices should be open for review, Joanne Csete of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Daniel Wolfe, deputy director of Open Society Institute's International Harm Reduction Development program, write in a Lancet opinion piece. The control board is an independent body of 13 members who are elected by U.N. members and oversee the implementation of international drug control regulations, according to the authors. Although the board's annual reports "repeatedly note that injection drug use is driving severe HIV epidemics," the board has "failed to criticize" countries where methadone or buprenorphine are illegal or "express concern" about countries where the medications to treat drug addiction are "effectively unavailable," Csete and Wolfe write. (Access Lancet Article Here...you must register.
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New Online Tool Providing Easy Access to the Latest Health Policy Facts and DataQuickTakes presents an inventory of facts-at-a-glance providing a concise overview of the health care system, as well as key facts about a wide variety of health policy topics, including: Medicaid, the uninsured, health care costs and insurance, Medicare, public opinion, HIV/AIDS, minority health, women's health policy and the entertainment media and health. These data are compiled from the Foundation's own studies and analyses as well as those from other organizations. Kaiser Slides allows Web visitors to freely view, download and print hundreds of graphics and tables presenting health policy statistics and trends from studies by Kaiser and others. The slides, which cover a broad range of topics, explain key aspects of health policy issues and can be used by anyone in presentations or as handouts at meetings and events. >> Click Here for Kaiser Facts
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The Latest from The BodyHIV News & Views for May 21st and 29th as well as Hot Topics of May 27th. Hope you find them informative.
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San Francisco Mayor Rejects Proposed Budget Cuts to HIV/AIDS Services(Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report) San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently rejected proposed cuts to HIV/AIDS services in his fiscal year 2009 budget, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. According to the Chronicle, Newsom rejected a proposal by Mitch Katz, director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health, to cut $3 million of the $10 million the department allocates to 30 not-for-profit groups that provide HIV/AIDS services. Katz made the recommendation in response to an order by Newsom earlier this month to reduce $11 million from the health department's budget to help alleviate an estimated $338 million city deficit. Katz recommended maintaining medical care and housing for people living with HIV/AIDS but reducing funds for food deliveries, legal services, support groups, acupuncture, massage and herbal therapy. The health department, which is projected to lose $54 million next year, already has made cuts and halted other programs.
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1M People Gained Access to Antiretrovirals in 2007, Report Says(Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report) About one million people in developing countries gained access to antiretroviral drugs in 2007, according to a report released on Monday by UNAIDS, UNICEF and the World Health Organization, the New York Times reports (Dugger, New York Times, 6/3). The report also found that a total of about three million people now have access to the drugs (Maugh, Los Angeles Times, 6/3). In addition, the approximately one million additional people who gained access to antiretrovirals in 2007 represent a 42% increase compared with 2006.
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Dynamics of HIVRegistration Deadline has been extended.
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HIV Edmonton Keynote Speaker & AGM
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AIDS Walk for Life 2008September 21, 2008 At Edmonton City Hall
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