Public Health & Education - U.S. Launches Five-Year, $45M Domestic HIV/AIDS Awareness Campaign White House, HHS and CDC officials on Tuesday announced the launch of a five-year, $45 million campaign to increase HIV/AIDS awareness in the U.S, the Washington Post reports. The campaign, titled Act Against AIDS, aims to address complacency about the disease by informing the public that one person in the U www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=57912

2009-04-08

Across The Nation - HIV/AIDS Outreach Efforts in Atlanta, Buffalo, N.Y., Target Black Community The following summarizes two recent events that seek to raise HIV/AIDS awareness in the black community.Atlanta: The African-American Outreach Initiative will hold its 10th annual conference on HIV/AIDS in Atlanta March 15, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. AIDS is the leading cause of death among bl www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=57386

2009-03-10

Across The Nation - San Francisco Launching Program To Identify New HIV Infections Within Two to Three Months San Francisco this month will launch a two-year pilot program to identify new HIV infections soon after they occur, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. This program is the first of its kind in the U.S. and aims to reduce the number of new cases in the city by half by 2015. According to the Chronicle, about www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=56857

2009-02-09

Politics and Policy - HIV/AIDS Commission To Call on Obama To Address Disease Among Blacks in U.S. The National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS plans to call on President Obama to develop a national strategy to address the HIV/AIDS among blacks in the U.S., the AP/Yahoo! Canada News reports. The organization's head, Virginia Fields, will discuss the state of HIV/AIDS in the black community on Thursday www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=56799

2009-02-05

Science & Medicine - Study Looks at Male Circumcision as HIV Prevention Among Black Men in Baltimore HIV risk appears to be lower among U.S. black men who have been circumcised and are considered at high risk of contracting the virus than among black men who have not been circumcised, according to a study published on Wednesday in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Reuters reports. Two other studies in the www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=56178

2008-12-19

Opinion - Editorials, Opinion Pieces Respond to World AIDS Day Several newspapers have published editorials and opinion pieces in response to World AIDS Day. Summaries appear below.EditorialsArizona Daily Star: World AIDS Day is a 'good time to issue a wake-up call,' a Daily Star editorial says, adding, 'This scourge has not gone away. It still cannot be cured. No one i www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=55794

2008-12-01

Across The Nation - Philadelphia Inquirer Examines HIV/AIDS in Philadelphia The Philadelphia Inquirer on Tuesday examined how estimates indicate that new HIV infections in Philadelphia are occurring at a rate more than five times the national average. According to the Inquirer, the estimates, which are based on CDC data released in August, are part of a broader government strategy t www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=55223

2008-10-28

Public Health & Education - CDC Releases Subpopulation Estimates from Data on Annual New HIV Infections; New Infections High Among Blacks, MSM The majority of new HIV infections in the U.S. in 2006 occurred among men who have sex with men, according to a study released Thursday in CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the New York Times reports. In addition, blacks have the highest incidence rates of any racial and ethnic group in the U.S. T www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=54429

2008-09-12

Across The Nation - Washington Post Examines HIV/AIDS Outreach Efforts Aimed at African Immigrants The Washington Post on Tuesday examined HIV/AIDS outreach efforts aimed at African immigrants in the U.S. According to the Post, some health researchers say that the 'message' that HIV/AIDS also affects Africans in the U.S. is 'growing in importance as they become increasingly concerned that the AIDS epidemi www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=54227

2008-09-02

Obama, McCain Silent on HIV/AIDS Epidemic Facing the Black Community, Opinion Piece Says The HIV/AIDS 'plague has long been the single biggest health issue in poor black communities' in the U.S., which is 'all the more reason' for presumptive presidential nominees Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) to 'speak out on the crisis and spell out just what they will do about it,' Ear www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=53725

2008-08-05