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Getting started with Pinterest

Government agencies and nonprofits are seeing the potential for using Pinterest to create boards focusing on topics such as HIV/AIDS, safe sex, and health care reform.

Published
30 January 2013
From
AIDS.gov blog
Global health initiatives
Online Consultation: Health in the Post-2015 Development Agenda

This online discussion (eDiscussion), hosted by UNAIDS as part of the Post-2015 Health Thematic Consultation, is an open and inclusive online discussion for individuals, and members of civil society, academia, governments, and the private sector to discuss the ways in which the global AIDS response can and should inform the Post-2015 Development Agenda.

Published
22 January 2013
From
The World We Want 2015
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Charity urges better availability of early treatment to prevent spread of HIV

The National AIDS Trust (NAT) is calling on the NHS to allow people with HIV to start treatment early in order to protect their sexual partners after two leading HIV clinical bodies - the British HIV Association (BHIVA) and the Expert Advisory Group on AIDS (EAGA) – authoritatively set out the scientific basis for HIV treatment as prevention.

Published
22 January 2013
From
NAT press release
Policy
Yusef Azad: Why the Government Risks Letting People With HIV Down

Lord Collins of Highbury stood up in the House of Lords on Tuesday and introduced a debate on how the Government has failed to deliver a much needed national HIV strategy. In doing so he raises the question, one the National AIDS Trust also wants answered, how serious is the Government about tackling HIV?

Published
17 January 2013
From
Huffington Post UK
Policy
House of Lords questions on HIV Strategy for England

Question: To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to publish a cross-departmental HIV Strategy for England, in line with the Political Declaration made at the United Nations General Assembly in 2011.

Published
16 January 2013
From
Hansard
Epidemiology
U.S. Has Poorer Health, Higher HIV Rates Compared With Wealthy Nations

When compared with other industrialized nations, Americans have a lower life expectancy, as well as increased rates of injury and disease. Despite spending more per capita on health care than other nations, the United States ranked as the worst in nine major health areas, including HIV/AIDS prevalence.

Published
16 January 2013
From
AIDSMeds
Policy
Greece HIV Remedies Hit as Crisis Threatens Drug Curbs

Greece’s efforts to control its debt crisis threaten to hobble the fight against an outbreak of HIV that has become the largest among drug users in the European Union.

Published
09 January 2013
From
Bloomberg
Policy
Civil Society follow up on the crisis - Brazilian AIDS Response

We want to thank the entire regional and international HIV/AIDS community for the support given to the Brazilian AIDS movement in relation to our last appeal concerning the shifts in funding being proposed by the Ministry of Health.

Published
03 January 2013
From
Sexuality Policy Watch
HIV treatment
Top 12 HIV and Hepatitis Stories of 2012

HIVandHepatitis.com reviews some the year's major HIV and viral hepatitis news highlights. On the HIV front, U.S. treatment guidelines recommended antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all HIV positive people, Truvada was approved for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and HIV criminalization and cure research were highlighted at the International AIDS Conference in July. Promising findings were reported for several interferon-free oral regimens for hepatitis C, experimental tuberculosis (TB) drugs showed good results, and the Affordable Care Act remained on track.

Published
03 January 2013
From
HIVandHepatitis.com
Policy
In China, Grass-Roots Groups Take on HIV/AIDS Outreach Work

In Guangdong, gay men are benefiting from a pioneering experiment that supporters hope will revolutionize the way the Communist Party deals with nongovernment groups trying to stop the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.

Published
03 January 2013
From
New York Times
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