To provide updated information in the management of STDs and HIV. This course is targeted for physicians, physician assistants, nurses, CRNPs, clinicians, public health care workers, and other health care providers. Lectures will discuss HPV including emerging topics and infection in men, STD interventions in adolescents, STD/HIV health disparities, oral manifestations of STD/HIV, STD treatment guidelines [...]
Friday, March 12, 2010
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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 [...]
Monday, September 21, 2009
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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
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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
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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 [...]
Thursday, December 1, 2005
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Article from JAAPA Vol. 18, No. 12 December 2005. Written by Particia R. Jennings, DrPH, PA-C and Laura Bachmann, MD, MPH. Both of the authors are faculty members of the Alabama – North Carolina STD | HIV Prevention Training Center. Article Excerpt: Primary care practitioners repeatedly admit that they seldom ask patients about their sexual practices when taking a [...]
Friday, August 27, 2010
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