Politics and Policy - CDC Outlines New HIV/AIDS Prevention Strategy, Including Opt-Out Testing for Pregnant Women The CDC today is scheduled to unveil its new HIV/AIDS prevention strategy, which aims to make HIV testing a 'routine part of care in doctors' offices and clinics,' instead of 'waiting for patients to specifically request it,' the Los Angeles Times reports. The CDC, which is 'advisory but has some authority,' www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=17225

2003-04-17

Public Health & Education - University of South Carolina Creates Institute for HIV Prevention The University of South Carolina announced on Tuesday that it will use a three-year, $5.2 million grant from the CDC and the Association of Schools of Public Health to create the Institute for HIV Prevention Leadership, which will help community leaders fight HIV/AIDS in their localities, the Associated Pres www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=14719

2002-11-21

Politics & Policy - President Bush Announces Three-Year, $500M International Program to Prevent Vertical HIV Transmission President Bush this morning announced a three-year, $500 million international HIV/AIDS initiative focused on preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Africa and the Caribbean, the Washington Post reports (Blustein, Washington Post, 6/18). Bush was joined at the Rose Garden ceremony by Treasury Secr www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=11805

2002-06-19

Global Challenges - HIV Prevention Efforts in Five African Countries Not Reaching At-Risk Groups, Report Says National HIV prevention strategies in at least five African countries are not reaching the groups most at risk of infection, according to a report from UNAIDS and the World Bank conducted in conjunction with the national HIV/AIDS authorities of Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland and Uganda, IRIN/PlusNews www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=58634

2009-05-29

Global Challenges - China To Develop HIV Prevention Campaign Aimed at MSM China's Ministry of Health on Wednesday announced that the country this year will develop an HIV prevention policy to curb the spread of the virus among men who have sex with men, China Daily reports (Juan, China Daily, 2/21).According to the health ministry's 2008 plan for disease prevention and control, th www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=50521

2008-02-21

Opinion - India Needs To Expand HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs To Reach Every Person at Risk for Disease, Opinion Piece Says Although many of India's political leaders see the 'urgent need for aggressive' prevention and treatment measures to prevent an 'AIDS catastrophe' in the country, prevention measures need to be 'expanded to reach all those at risk,' Melinda French Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, wri www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=23159

2004-04-13

Recent Releases - Effective HIV Prevention Programs Should Be Implemented More Widely, Report Says 'Bringing HIV Prevention to Scale: An Urgent Global Priority,' Global HIV Prevention Working Group: The report found that scientifically proven HIV prevention programs, including those that aim to reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission, are not being implemented on an adequate scale. This means that www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=45927

2007-06-29

Recent Releases in HIV/AIDS - Lancet Publishes Article About Behavioral HIV Prevention Strategies 'Behavioral Strategies To Reduce HIV Transmission: How To Make Them Work Better,' Lancet: Thomas Coates of the University of California-Los Angeles and colleagues make five points in the paper about behavioral HIV prevention strategies. First, they write that the 'aggregate effect of radical and sustained be www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=54117

2008-08-25

Global Challenges - Group of Transgender People Spread HIV Prevention Messages Among MSM in Cuba A group of male-to-female transgender people in the western Cuban province Pinar del Rio recently have begun to educate local men who have sex with men about HIV prevention, Inter Press Service reports. The group last week participated in a cultural festival that aimed to promote HIV prevention through artwo www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=51038

2008-03-19

Opinion - 'B' in ABC Method Is the 'Real Pillar' of HIV Prevention in Uganda, Letter to Editor Says Uganda's success in reducing its HIV rate from 21% to 6% from 1991 to 2002 is mainly due to the 'B' in the ABC approach to HIV prevention, which stands for abstinence, be faithful and use condoms, Sam Ruteikara, co-chair of the Uganda National AIDS Prevention Committee, writes in a Washington Post letter to www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=51561

2008-04-16