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Tuesday, October 23, 2007 |
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New Staff Join the HIV Edmonton Team!Current HIV Edmonton staff, board members and volunteers would like to welcome our new staff: Misty Bjerky joins us as our new Operations Coordinator and can be reached at 488-5742 ext #222. Dolan Badger is our new Support & Outreach Worker and can be reached at ext #225. Jasmine Abrahamson is also joining our Support & Outreach team, in a part-time capacity, and can be reached at ext #242. Finally, we would like to welcome Andrea Yacyshyn who will be working on our Youth Peer Project until February 2008. This project is funded by the Wild Rose Foundation of Alberta. Andrea may be reached at ext #240.
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Across The Nation | Advocates of Legal Drug Injection Center in San Francisco Discuss Support of Idea(Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report - October 22, 2007) Supporters of a potential city-funded, legal center in San Francisco where injection drug users can use drugs under medical supervision gathered Thursday to discuss the idea, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The event was sponsored by the San Francisco Department of Public Health and the Alliance for Saving Lives, a coalition that includes the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, the Mission Neighborhood Resource Center, the Harm Reduction Coalition and San Francisco General Hospital's Opiate Treatment Outpatient Program.Supporters of the center say it can reduce the spread of HIV and hepatitis C, prevent deaths from drug overdoses and prevent used needles from circulating in the community. Advocates are collecting signatures on a letter to send to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and Mitch Katz, the head of the health department. In the letter, advocates "call on San Francisco to create a legal safer injection facility staffed with trained medical professionals. ... Please help us make this critical program a reality" (Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 10/19). >> Click Here
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60% of HIV-Positive People in Africa Who Begin Antiretroviral Treatment Still Taking Drugs After Two Years, Study Says(Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report - October 16, 2007) About 60% of HIV-positive people in sub-Saharan Africa who begin treatment with antiretroviral drugs still are taking the drugs after two years, according to a study published Monday in PLoS Medicine, the AP/Los Angeles Times reports.For the study -- led by Sydney Rosen, an assistant professor at Boston University's School of Public Health -- researchers examined 32 publications that reported on 74,192 people living with HIV/AIDS in 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa between 2000 and 2007. The study found that 40% of the people who stopped treatment had died. The rest of the patients who stopped treatment missed scheduled medical appointments, failed to pick up medication or transferred to other clinics. In addition, a small percentage of people stopped treatment with antiretrovirals but continued to receive medical care at the same clinic where they began treatment (Cheng, AP/Los Angeles Times, 10/15). >> Click Here
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HIV/AIDS Prevention Among MSM in China Remains a Challenge, Health Official Says(Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report - Friday, October 19, 2007) Preventing the spread of HIV among men who have sex with men remains a challenge for the Chinese government, Wang Yu, chief of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said on Wednesday, China Daily reports. The United Nations and the Asian Development Bank in a recent report said the number of HIV cases in China is rising faster than the average number in most Asia-Pacific countries despite efforts by the government.
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Addressing HIV Vulnerability
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