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The U.S. Office of the Inspector General is conducting four audits of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one of which is about to be completed and another that is soon to start.
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After two days of putting their heads together, a diverse group of HIV-prevention experts came up with dozens of proposed strategies. Here are some suggestions offered from one of four topic areas covered at a recent two-day HIV Prevention Summit at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
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An ongoing debate over the facts about condoms still is not settled, even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has posted an updated version of its on-line condom fact sheet.
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After years of anticipation, the first of a new generation of rapid HIV tests is being shipped to hospitals and laboratories across the country. At the same time, health officials tell AIDS Alert that the OraQuick Rapid HIV-1 Anti-body Test soon could receive an Food and Drug Administration (FDA) waiver that would allow the test to be used in outreach settings as well.
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A small Chicago study suggests that attitudes about HIV and AIDS among HIV-infected people can be broken down into types that are predictive of how well the patients will adhere to their medication regimens.
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Based on the results of several clinical trials, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed new labeling for over-the-counter vaginal contraceptive drug products that contain nonoxynol 9 (N-9).
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When discussions turn to HIV/AIDS, most people assume the U.S. epidemic is primarily a northeastern and western coast problem, where most of the AIDS activism and media attention are focused. Statistics paint a different picture, one that greatly affects the availability of resources and health care services for HIV patients.
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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.
