KTEN.com (Denison, Texas) (04.19.10):: Meredith Saldana The group YW8 provides sex education to students in Carter County, teaching teens to have healthy relationships, draw boundaries and wait to have sex. “We want our teens to be healthy and to be healthy we have to challenge some of the behaviors that culture is teaching them is normal,” said [...]
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Click here to download a power point presentation by Rick Meriwether, UAB Department of Medicine, STD Program, entitled “STDs/STIs: Old Behaviors, New Challenges”.
Friday, March 12, 2010
LOUISIANA: “Baton Rouge HIV/AIDS Nonprofit Groups Seek Funds” The Advocate (Baton Rouge) (03.08.10):: Steven Ward Nonprofit HIV/AIDS groups in the Baton Rouge area are struggling to find alternate funding sources in the wake of state and federal budget cuts. The Baton Rouge AIDS Society recently saw its $158,000 CDC allocation for prevention and outreach slashed by $98,000, said [...]
Thursday, October 15, 2009
NORTH CAROLINA: “New Tool to Fight Syphilis? Walmart Gift Cards” MSNBC.com (09.14.09):: Brian Alexander Forsyth County, N.C., has already recorded 140 syphilis cases this year, more than triple the number for 2008, and the poor economy may be partly to blame, say officials there. However, the economy also motivated many residents to get screened for the disease [...]
Thursday, October 15, 2009
NORTH CAROLINA: “Guilford Holds First HPV Clinics for Middle School Girls” MyFox8.com (Greensboro) (10.06.09) Two Guilford County middle schools – Brown Summit Middle School and Lincoln Academy – on Tuesday held the first of several grant-funded clinics to administer the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil to girls in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades. Additional clinics were [...]
Monday, September 21, 2009
SOUTH CAROLINA: “A Cure for the Stigma: Medicines Have Advanced, but Stigma Is Biggest Challenge in HIV/AIDS Battle” Anderson Independent Mail (08.29.09):: Charmaine Smith-Miles In South Carolina, whose AIDS case rate ranks eighth among US states, stigma remains a major obstacle to HIV prevention and treatment efforts. In 2007, the state health department reported 742 AIDS cases for [...]
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Plans for the 25th Annual Update in STD/HIV/AIDS have been finalized. The event is scheduled to take place on October 27th, 2009 at the Winfrey Hotel at Riverchase Galleria in Birmingham, Alabama. The event is jointly sponsored by: The University of Alabama School of Medicine, Division of CME The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Division of Infectious Diseases, [...]
Thursday, August 20, 2009
KENTUCKY: “HIV Campaign Educating Kentuckians” WKYT.com (08.11.09):: Tamara Evans At a news conference in Frankfort on Tuesday, health officials called on all Kentuckians to learn their HIV status as part of a national testing effort. The “Test 1 Million Campaign” targets African Americans, but state officials say its message of early [...]
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
UNITED STATES: "Patterns of Engagement in Care by HIV-Infected Adults: South Carolina, 2004-2006 " AIDS Vol. 23; No. 6: P. 725-730 (03.27.09):: Bankole A. Olatosi; Janice C. Probst; Carleen H. Stoskopf; Amy B. Martin; Wayne A. Duffus In the current study, the authors designed a cross-sectional analysis of non-pregnant HIV-infected South Carolinians (n=13,042) from Jan. 1, 2004, to Dec. 31, 2006, to identify factors associated with HIV care utilization in the state.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
A new offering of the 3-Day Part Time Intensive Training Event has been added for the Guilford County location. For further information on Guilford County training events, please contact Rich Williams via email at rwillia0@co.guilford.nc.us or phone at (336) 641-3105.
Friday, May 21, 2010