AIDS Alert Archives – February 1, 2005
February 1, 2005
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Epidemic continues to stabilize except for black females, MSMs
The latest surveillance data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continue to show a stabilization of the HIV epidemic in the United States. However, data also show there are increases among men who have sex with men (MSM) and black women are being disproportionately affected. -
CDC’s prevention initiative shows no testing increase
Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) expect to see some results from the HIV Prevention Initiative in 2004, although the data remain to be analyzed and the 2003 data demonstrated no impact. -
Repeated testing advised for at-risk MSM groups
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) generally recommends that people engaging in high-risk behaviors for HIV infection should be tested once a year, but when people believe they may have been exposed to the virus, the testing should be more frequent. -
Massachusetts project cuts a wide swath of care
A Massachusetts community-based organization (CBO) provides rapid HIV testing services to clients at homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters, youth groups, churches, a community college, and other sites, as part of a demonstration project funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). -
Social network enlists community recruiters
The Center for Multicultural Wellness and Prevention in Orlando, FL, has identified 14 HIV-positive cases out of 173 people tested in its first year of a demonstration project funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). -
Harlem center focuses on prevention for positives
The Harlem United Community AIDS Center in New York City recognizes that HIV-positive people who engage in high-risk activities are not going to change their behaviors overnight, so the center focuses on reducing their risk behaviors one step at a time. -
Have tents, will travel in San Francisco
Continuum of San Francisco has a goal of finding people who are unaware that they are HIV-positive through its grant from the Advancing HIV Prevention Initiative of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). -
Rapid HIV testing popular with Chicago CBO clients
The Night Ministry of Chicago provides rapid HIV testing in nonclinical settings, extending services to some of the most difficult to reach, high-risk populations, including homeless youths and others. -
Rural HIV service center needs a creative approach
The Southwest Louisiana Area Health Education Center in Lafayette has found some creative solutions to the problems HIV staff have with trying to identify high-risk populations for HIV testing and counseling. -
AIDS Alert International: World health community focuses on problems of women, HIV, and violence for 2005
World health officials are focusing in 2005 on improving intervention and prevention programs that target women, particularly young women, who appear to be shouldering some of the heaviest burdens of the epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. -
AIDS Alert International: Region shows how an effective program works
While Tanzania as a nation has had no evidence of a decline in HIV prevalence, the Mbeya region has seen the prevalence among 15- to 24-year-old women decline from 20.5% in 1994-1995 to 14.6% in 2000. UNAIDS officials cite the Mbeya region as a good example of what can be accomplished if the right combination of funding, infrastructure-building, and effective prevention interventions are initiated.