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For an AIDS service organization to succeed in attracting an elusive and at-risk population, it must demonstrate that outreach workers care about the clients and accept them just as they are, according to a long-time HIV/AIDS activist who has succeeded where others have failed. Renaissance III of Dallas recently opened the states first community center for young African-American men who have sex with men (MSM).
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The latest AIDS epidemic news blaring out to the international health community as 2002 drew to a close was particularly devastating because it offered strong evidence that women increasingly are infected with HIV and are dying of AIDS, and that their proportion of the epidemics toll now is close to 50% worldwide.
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HIV prevention continues to offer the worlds best hope in stopping the AIDS epidemic, and recent success stories in South Africa and Uganda prove that these work, according to the recent AIDS Epidemic Update report by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Four days before President George W. Bush announced a national smallpox vaccination plan last month, a group of public health experts heaved a sigh of relief. In a meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney, they had finally managed to convince the administration not to follow a policy of mass, pre-emptive smallpox inoculation.
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Because comprehensive scientific data are lacking, health experts can only conjecture about the possible ramifications of smallpox vaccinations on people with HIV and AIDS. Here is the advice most experts are offering.
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As the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses Inc. (AAOHN) turns 60, it looks back on a long history of promoting worker health and safety. But one also can see a significant shift in the very nature of the Atlanta-based organization an incredible change in the makeup of its membership.
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The lofty vision of Baptist Health Care Corp. of Pensacola, FL, is to be the best health system in America. It may well be on its way. According to one authoritative source, Baptist Health may at the very least be the best health care employer in the entire country.
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On Jan. 15, 2003, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs, a case that will determine whether the approximately 5 million state employees in the United States can recover damages when their employers violate the Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
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Widespread smallpox vaccination of the general population is too dangerous to justify unless the likelihood of a major biological attack on the United States is substantial. But it is prudent to vaccinate health care workers now against the disease, says a new study1 by the nonprofit RAND Center for Domestic and International Health Security.
