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On this Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2010, we reflect back on the past year’s work around HIV/AIDS and women in the United States. The rate of HIV among women and girls has been steadily increasing over the years, with women of color the hardest hit.   HIV has now become the leading cause of death among Black women ages 25 to 34. At the 2009 HIV/AIDS Prevention Conference in Atlanta, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius commented on the dramatic and disparate impact of the HIV epidemic on minority communities: "Today, African Americans make up just over one-tenth of the population. But they account for nearly half of new HIV infections. One in 30 African-American women will be diagnosed in her lifetime. One in sixteen African-American men will be diagnosed with HIV. The situation is also dire for Latinos. Think about that. Imagine if it were half the straight white women in Atlanta. Wouldn't we be calling this a national emergency? Shouldn't we be?" The answer is, of course, yes we should be calling the HIV/AIDS crisis a national emergency.   As the HIV Human Rights Attorney for the U.S. Positive Women’s Network, the only national membership organization for HIV-positive women, I have seen tremendous gains in advancing HIV-positive women’s issues to the highest policy levels. I have heard HIV-positive women’s voices where before there was only silence: in the White House, in Congress, at the tables wher ...

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From the State : Today about one in four Americans living with HIV is a woman, and a new woman in the United States is diagnosed with HIV every 35 minutes. These sobering facts are the foundation of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. The Tennessee Department of Health is participating in this annual health observance March 10 by reminding women and girls about preventing HIV and the importance of getting tested. ...

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CHICAGO - More than 100 events are scheduled nationwide tomorrow for National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, including several here to empower people to address the issue. Luvvie Ajayi is the co-founder of The Red Pump Project, a national HIV/AIDS awareness group that has organized several hundred bloggers to write about HIV/AIDS awareness tomorrow. The group has asked bloggers to post its "Rock the Red Pump" logo with their stories. The symbol represents the strength and courage of the women fighting HIV/AIDS and of those impacted by the disease. Ajayi said her group is also hosting a Twitter town-hall online discussion so people can talk openly about how HIV/AIDS affects women and girls. "We're asking women to wear red shoes tomorrow, pumps or flats," she said. "It's a good conversation starter and women love shoes." Men can join in too by wearing red ties, she said. "The disease is affecting too many women and especially women of color," said Ajayi. "Women are the caretakers of their family and we have to be healthy. Black women account for over half of women affected by HIV, and this alarming statistic is the driving force behind The Red Pump Project." Ajayi's group is hosting a fashion show March 25th called "Rock the Red: Bold. Fashion. Awareness,"  which is part of the national initiative headed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health. To learn more about The Red Pump Project go t ...

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An Indianapolis woman pleads not guilty to transferring plasma tainted with HIV. ...

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Detroit-based organization Gospel Against AIDS provides a training session for local clergy on prevention-based education and acceptance of people affected by HIV and AIDS at 12 p.m. on March 10 at Messiah Baptist Church, 2615 Williamson in Bridgeport Township. ...

Source: www.aids.gov --- 6 hours ago
As we commemorate the fifth annual National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, we are reminded that in the United States, women and teenage girls accounted for more than a quarter of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2007 and more than 93,900 cumulative deaths from AIDS. Black women in this country suffer disproportionately from the HIV/AIDS epidemic, as they acquire new HIV infections at nearly 15 times the rate of white women. Worldwide, half of the estimated 33.4 million people living with HIV in 2008 were female, and HIV was the leading cause of disease and death for women of childbearing age. ...

Source: www.africarelated.com --- 7 hours ago
Human rights groups have called for political leaders to fulfil their commitments towards universal access for antiretroviral (ARV) treatment and keep their promises. ...

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Following suit from many other cash-strapped states, South Carolina guts funding for antiviral medication, leaving HIV patients and advocates scrambling for alternatives. ...

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A new report from the CDC shows that the surgical procedure does little to stem the spread of HIV. ...

Source: www.thetimesnews.com --- 7 hours ago
A $150,000 grant will bring better access to HIV testing in Alamance County. Alamance Cares, which provides free HIV tests and education programs, got a three-year state grant to move HIV testing away from doctor’s offices and clinics and into the... ...

Source: www.advocate.com --- 7 hours ago
Following suit from many other cash-strapped states, South Carolina guts funding for antiviral medication, leaving HIV patients and advocates scrambling for alternatives. ...

Source: www.advocate.com --- 7 hours ago
A new report from the CDC shows that the surgical procedure does little to stem the spread of HIV. ...

Source: gay.americablog.com --- 7 hours ago
Alvin McEwen asks a good question about his home state. People are already dying, literally dying, because they can't get their medicine. South Carolina's solution? Cut all HIV/AIDS funding : What the hell is wrong with South Carolina? Last Thursday, the SC House of Representatives did something so wrong that words cannot convey how I feel about it: The South Carolina House voted Thursday to cut all HIV/AIDS funding from the budget, a funding issue that could affect thousands of South Carolinians. The South Carolina HIV/AIDS Care Crisis Task Force reports there are more than 14,000 people living in the state who have tested positive for HIV or AIDS. About 3,000 people rely on government funds for medications. . . . Dr. Bambi Gaddist of the South Carolina HIV/AIDS Care Crisis Task Force says when state funding began in 2006, more than 600 people were on a waiting list for medicine. Four of those people died. Currently South Carolina ranks 8th in newly diagnosed HIV cases and that is up from last year when it ranked number nine. And new infections are hitting young black and bisexual gay men at an ugly rate. But none of these things seem to be a matter of concern to the South Carolina Legislature. This is very serious. People are going to die if these budget cuts happen. Alvin's conclusion is just perfect: It's an ugly indictment on the hypocrisy of the supposed Bible belt region. It is written that Jesus healed the sick, but I guess t ...

Source: www.physorg.com --- 8 hours ago
UCSF prevention experts have released the Positive Prevention Toolkit, a collection of resources designed to enable HIV/AIDS caregivers to provide prevention messages when interacting with HIV-positive patients. The goal is to help patients modify their behavior to reduce risk and decrease the spread of HIV. ...

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pozmagazine: POZ News: Health Officials Convene in Atlanta for 2010 National STD Prevention Conference http://bit.ly/a4V5Zm #HIV #AIDS ...

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From the Voice of America, this article details about a new strategy to help women and children with HIV/AIDS. About 30 years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, a new strategy is being launched to better respond to the needs of women and children. The research agenda -- called Asking the Right Questions – includes 20 specific recommendations to expand and improve care and treatment. The announcement coincides with Monday’s International Women’s Day and is a joint effort by the International AIDS Society (IAS), U.N. agencies, researchers and civil society. IAS Executive Director Robin Gorna says, “We’re nearly three decades into the epidemic and we have the depressing news that AIDS is now the leading cause of death of women of reproductive age across the globe,” she says. It wasn’t always that way “Three decades ago, very few women were infected with HIV. It was a minority issue. But sadly, as HIV has taken its increasing toll on women, the pace of research and the response really hasn’t kept up,” she says. While “excellent treatments” are available, she says, which can prolong life, many have “not been properly researched on women’s bodies.” As a result, the full effects of those treatments on women are not known. “Now that more and more women are accessing treatment, what we still don’t know is how we can best get women into care and how we can make sure that care is integrated,” she says. That includes, she says, ensuring HIV positive p ...