HIV

DPH Reaches Out to Health Care Providers to Promote Screenings

June 26, 2007 -- In honor of National HIV Testing Day on June 27, the Kentucky Department for Public Health is promoting routine voluntary HIV testing for people 13-64 years old.

The campaign comes on the heels of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention initiative to incorporate routine testing nationwide. In Kentucky, the campaign for increased HIV testing runs during the June.    » read more »

June 25, 2007 -- In an effort to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) is recognizing June 27 as National HIV Testing Day.

"This year marks the 26th anniversary of HIV/AIDS," said Janet Olszewski, MDCH Director. "Unfortunately, an estimated quarter of a million Americans are currently infected with HIV and do not know it. Having yourself tested can save lives, especially your own."    » read more »

20 June 2007 -- Rwanda has just hosted a four-day international conference in the capital Kigali on improving services for HIV / AIDS patients. More than two thousand delegates attended the meeting, which was organized by President Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.    » read more »

Kigali, Rwanda, June 16, 2007 – The 2007 HIV/AIDS Implementers’ Meeting opens today in Kigali, and is expected to draw over 1,500 delegates from around the world. Rwanda was chosen to host the meeting in recognition of the country’s leadership in the fight against HIV/AIDS and the impressive results it has achieved.    » read more »

Measure would eliminate the requirement in the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to spend at least 33 percent of funding on these abstinence-only programs

June 6, 2007 -- Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) today introduced a measure to provider greater flexibility for U.S. funding for critical HIV/AIDS prevention programs.    » read more »

02 June 2007 -- Many Pentecostal churches in Kampala invite the afflicted to be cured. Mrs. Frances Adroa, who is HIV-positive, took them up on the offer.    » read more »

Vague Language Meaningless Without Real Resources

(New York, May 30, 2007) – Expanding access to HIV testing is critical in the fight against AIDS, but new WHO/UNAIDS guidelines pay only lip service to the conditions that will make testing successful, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch was responding to the release of new WHO/UNAIDS guidelines on provider-initiated HIV testing and counseling.    » read more »

May 30, 2007 -- THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all for coming. Welcome to the Rose Garden. Today, I'm joined by some very determined people who are battling one of the worst epidemics of modern times: the spread of HIV/AIDS.    » read more »

U.N. General Assembly reviews international response to pandemic

22 May 2007 -- United Nations -- President Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is proving effective, according to Alec Mally, counselor to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.

PEPFAR, now in its fourth year, is beginning to turn the tide against the HIV/AIDS pandemic in some countries, Mally told the U.N. General Assembly May 21.    » read more »

10 May 2007 -- German conglomerate Siemens signed an agreement with a Catholic organization to lower the costs of lab tests for HIV patients in Africa. These tests aim to establish whether HIV patients are becoming resistant to drug therapies they are undergoing. For VOA, Sabina Castelfranco reports from Rome

The agreement between the well-established Catholic Community of Sant'Egidio, and Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics was signed at the end of the fifth international conference of the DREAM project titled "Long life to Africa: Fighting Aids and Malnutrition".    » read more »

Housing grants help reduce health disparities

April 24, 2007 -- SPRINGFIELD – Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich announced today $2,425,000 in housing grants to 16 community based organizations across Illinois to provide housing services for individuals living with HIV or AIDS.    » read more »