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National Council of Welfare ReportsFirst Nations, Métis and Inuit Children and Youth: Time to Act - The National Council of Welfare report on First Nations, Métis and Inuit children and youth was written to show solidarity with Aboriginal demands for action, to help Canadians better understand and support needed changes, and to urge governments to act without delay in new and bold ways to give poverty-stricken Aboriginal children and youth a decent chance in life. The report, developed by the NCW in cooperation with Aboriginal individuals and organizations, provides a portrait of Aboriginal peoples from the perspective of the communities and the social connections upon which children and youth depend. It combines statistics with the voices of influential Aboriginal people the Council interviewed, to give true meaning to the numbers.
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Canadians Support HIV/AIDS Education in SchoolsAn overwhelming majority of Canadians support adopting national standards for HIV and AIDS education in their community’s elementary and secondary schools. In a recent national survey conducted by Angus Reid Strategies on behalf of the Canadian AIDS Society (CAS), 88 per cent of respondents express support (53% strongly) for adopting the national standards education program proposed by the CAS in their community elementary schools. Support is similarly high (84%) among households with children, and across all regions. Moreover, support for the adoption of this standardized CAS education program in community secondary schools receives nearly unanimous backing (97%), with 86 per cent granting a strong endorsement. Again, support is equally high (96%) among households with children, and across all regions. >> Click Here for Media Release
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CAS HIV & AIDS Education Survey ACTION: The Canadian AIDS Society is launching our HIV and AIDS Education survey. We have had an overwhelming response from the Canadian public in support of national standards for HIV and AIDS education through our Angus Reid poll. Now we want to know more from parents/guardians, educators and students to improve HIV/AIDS education in Canada. You can help! Please take some time to fill out the survey. After you’re finished, spread the word. Please tell others about this important survey and encourage them to participate! www.cdnaids.ca/survey Surveys for: Parents/guardians Educators Students >> Click Headings Above or Here for Survey Site
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Guide to Community Involvement in AIDS 2008   This Guide was created to increase community understanding of and participation in the International AIDS Conference to be held in Mexico City, August 3-8, 2008. Many AIDS2008 conference applications are now open, with registration and other applications also opening in December. Some key deadlines for submission are as early as February – see calendar. Applications open: Abstracts, affiliated events, satellites, exhibitions, skills-building workshops
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CAAN Launches AAAW 2007 Materials Kevin Barlow, Executive Director for the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN), today announced the launch of the 2007 National Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week campaign. "We need your voice and especially our Leaders to speak loud and clear about HIV/AIDS," says Kevin Barlow, Executive Director of the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network. "Together, we can turn this epidemic around and together, we can make a difference for those now living with HIV or AIDS". Aboriginal people living in Canada represent just over 3% of the country's total population but represent more than three times that number in prevalent HIV infections. Aboriginal people are the most vulnerable population in >> Click Here for Media Release and Links to Materials
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Ready, set and going on treatmentCATIE News – The availability
of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has greatly reduced
AIDS-related deaths and illness, at least in high-income countries.
However, HAART users can face many challenges, including the
following:
Another challenge is the ability to take medications every day
exactly as prescribed and directed—a behaviour called adherence.
Very high levels of adherence are needed so that treatment can
suppress HIV and keep it suppressed for many years. If HIV
suppression is poor or intermittent, the virus can begin to resist
the effects of treatment. If this happens, future treatment choices
become limited.
>> Click Here for Study Summary
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Updated Global HIV/AIDS Facts Sheets, Tools & ResourcesThe Kaiser Family Foundation has updated several resources with new data from UNAIDS on the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. The updates reflect major revisions based on refinements in methodology, increased data availability, and growing knowledge about the natural history of HIV disease. An updated fact sheet provides data on the global impact of HIV/AIDS by region, on women and young people, and data on the global response. Several indicators on globalhealthfacts.org have been updated, including the total number of men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, and the total number of AIDS deaths worldwide. Both the HIV/AIDS Overview and Facts at a Glance sections on GlobalHealthReporting.org have also been revised. In addition, there are many new developments in Kaiser’s public education campaigns designed to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS in the U.S. and around the World. The campaigns include the Global Media AIDS Initiative, the Caribbean Broadcast Media Partnership on HIV/AIDS, the African Broadcast Media Partnership Against HIV/AIDS, Rap-It-Up with BET, It’s Your (Sex) Life with MTV and ¡Entérate! with Univision.>> Click Here to Access Resources
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AP/International Herald Tribune Examines Condoms in Prisons(Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report) The AP/International Herald Tribune on Monday examined nationwide efforts to provide prison inmates with condoms in an attempt to reduce the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. According to the AP/Herald Tribune, efforts by HIV/AIDS and prisoners' rights advocates to distribute condoms in prisons have gone "almost nowhere" because some prison officials and politicians argue that they encourage sexual activity among inmates and can be used to hide drugs.Vermont and five other cities in the U.S. allow inmates regular access to condoms, the AP/Herald Tribune reports. Vermont's Department of Corrections has provided condom access in prisons since 1992 even though prison regulations ban sexual activity. The program provides inmates one condom at a time if they request it from a health worker. "It's a courageous position that Vermont took then and continues to have now," the corrections department's health services director, Dolores Burroughs-Biron, said, adding that there have been no reports of security problems as a result of the program.
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Editorials, Opinion Pieces, Letter Respond to UNAIDS, WHO Report on Global HIV/AIDS Estimates(Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report) Several newspapers recently published editorials, opinion pieces and letters to the editor in response to UNAIDS and the World Health Organization's annual report on HIV/AIDS, which was released last week. The organizations in the report lowered their estimates of how many people are living with HIV/AIDS worldwide. According to the report, about 33 million people worldwide are living with HIV/AIDS, compared with an estimate of nearly 40 million in 2006. The U.N. bodies said that better methods of data collection and increased data availability from countries show that HIV/AIDS is not quite as widespread as previously thought (Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 11/21).>> Click Here to Access Articles
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Missing The Target #5(Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report) At the G8 meeting in Gleneagles in 2005 and again at the United Nations UNGASS session in 2006, world leaders promised to come as close as possible to providing universal access to AIDS treatment and prevention by 2010. Estimates of HIV incidence and prevalence will change, but by any account, today several million people in desperate need of AIDS treatment do not have access to it. And at the current pace of growth in treatment delivery, several million will not have access by the end of 2010. Broken promises will mean millions of deaths.>> Click Here for Media Release & Report
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Black MSM Twice as Likely as White MSM To Be Living With HIV(Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report) Black men who have sex with men in the U.S. are twice as likely as white MSM to be living with HIV, federal researchers announced on Monday at a national HIV prevention conference, the Baltimore Sun reports. Kevin Fenton -- director of CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention -- said that MSM "account for almost half of all estimated to be living with HIV" in the U.S. and that black MSM are the "most heavily impacted." Researchers at the conference said they are somewhat unclear about why disparity exists, the Sun reports. A recent study found little differences in the rates of unprotected sex among black and white MSM. However, the practice was common among both groups, according to the Sun (Bor, Baltimore Sun, 12/4).
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Male Circumcision Does Not Offer Protection Against HIV Among U.S. Black, Hispanic MSMMale circumcision does not offer any level of protection against HIV among black and Hispanic men who have sex with men in the U.S., researchers said Monday at the National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta, Reuters reports. For the study, Greg Millett of CDC and colleagues studied 1,079 black and 957 Hispanic MSM residing in Los Angeles, New York City and Philadelphia. The study participants filled out a computer survey and received an HIV test. According to the study, circumcised black and Hispanic MSM were as likely to become HIV-positive as those who were uncircumcised. The study also found that circumcision did not offer a protective benefit for a subset of black MSM who recently had sex with female partners or among MSM "reporting recent unprotected sex with a male partner in which they were exclusively the insertive male partner," Millett said. He added, "Overall, we found no association between circumcision status and HIV infection status" among black or Hispanic MSM.
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New Data on Cancer Rates Among HIV-Positive People 'Underline' Need for Antiretrovirals That Restore Immune Function(Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report) New data on cancer rates among HIV-positive people "underline" the need for the development of antiretroviral drugs that "restore immune function more effectively" than currently available treatments, Mark Wainberg -- director of McGill University's AIDS Centre at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, Canada, and former president of the International AIDS Society -- writes in a Washington Post opinion piece. As a result of increased life expectancy because of new antiretrovirals, clinicians and researchers are seeing higher rates of several "life-threatening" cancers among people who have been HIV-positive for long periods of time, Wainberg writes. These cancers include lymphomas, carcinomas and lung cancers, according to Wainberg, who adds that although the "numbers are still relatively small overall, these cancers are occurring with far higher frequency among" HIV-positive people than among the general population. One reason for the increase is that HIV causes a decline in immunological function that "cannot be completely repaired" by antiretrovirals, according to Wainberg.
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HIV Working Group Releases Report on Vaccine, Microbicide Research, Development(Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report) "Building a Comprehensive Response: Funding for HIV Vaccines, Microbicides and Other New Preventive Options: 2000 to 2006," HIV Vaccine and Microbicides Resource Tracking Working Group: The report provides estimates of investment in HIV vaccine and microbicide research and development from 2000 to 2006. The report also includes estimates of investment in new prevention options -- including male circumcision, suppression of the genital herpes virus HSV-2, cervical barriers and pre-exposure prophylaxis.
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NOW with 20% More Slaps! You have got to fit this hilarious rivalry between Joan Crawford and Betty Davis, featuring gossip Heda Hopper, into your schedule before December 9th. Gut achingly funny! Not for the weak of spirit. Please feel free to empty your change (and bills) into the HIV Edmonton donations placed throughout the Roxy Theatre. Click Here for Cast Profiles and Reviews
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