Hiv Bill Moves Through House Committee
Beth Wessel-Kroeschell , D-Ames, said the bill is an improvement over the current law, which she characterized as draconian. She said she still has concerns that the House version will keep people with HIV and other infectious diseases from getting tested because it continues to criminalize those who know they carry a disease and could potentially infect another. “Somebody who’s afraid of being a criminal may not get tested,” she said. “I think we have the opportunity with the Senate bill to eliminate HIV-AID and that’s what we need to do. If everybody gets tested and gets treated we can get r...
Source: aids-write.org - March 14, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news Source Type: blogs
Institute Urging Pregnant Women To Be Positive They’re Hiv Negative
The test is first offered to pregnant women in the first prenatal screening. I think that anyone who finds out that theyre pregnant is wanting the best health for their baby and so will take the steps possible in order to prevent that transmission if theyre given the information and provided care that does not include stigma and discrimination, said Eaton. If you are HIV positive and aware of this while pregnant, officials say there are very good prevention strategies to reduce the risk of transmission to your unborn baby. Without these prevention strategies the risk of mother-to-baby transmission is about 25 per cent but ...
Source: aids-write.org - March 11, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news Source Type: blogs
Hiv ‘cure’ For Babies Tested In Canada
should be considered a serious breakdown of our public health strategy,” Montaner said. ‘Today any (pediatric) case of HIV … should be considered a serious breakdown of our public health strategy.’ -Dr. JulioMontaner, B.C. You will find the original content at this website http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/hiv-cure-for-babies-tested-in-canada-1.2566687 (Source: aids-write.org)
Source: aids-write.org - March 11, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news Source Type: blogs
Novel Hiv Prevention Products For Women Demonstrate Safety In Clinical Studies
Blood levels of dapivirine were low, consistent with previous studies showing dapivirine’s low systemic absorption when delivered as a microbicide. Dapivirine levels in vaginal fluids and cervical tissue – where the drug would be needed locally to prevent infection – were high. In addition, cervical tissue biopsied from women assigned to use the dapivirine-only ring and combination dapivirine-maraviroc ring showed protection against HIV when “challenged” with the virus in laboratory tests. These results further support IPM’s dapivirine-only ring, now in two parallel Phase III studies in ...
Source: aids-write.org - March 9, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news Source Type: blogs
Gene Therapy Shows Promise Against Hiv
Pablo Tebas, co-author of a new study and associate professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Existing AIDS drugs allow many patients to live fairly normal lives despite being infected with HIV. But they can cause a variety of side effects, and some patients become immune to them over time. “The next big challenge is going to be: Can you cure the infection or control it to a level that allows patients to not take these expensive and complex medications that can be toxic?” Tebas said. One possible solution is to help the body fight off HIV without the use of drugs. That’s where gene therapy ...
Source: aids-write.org - March 2, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news Source Type: blogs
Obamacare Insurers In Louisiana Delay Hiv Policy Change
They are among a small handful of insurance companies in Louisiana that sell healthcare policies under President Barack Obama’s healthcare law. Without an injunction, low-income individuals with HIV who elect to stay in one of the plans offered by the three insurers will need to pay their own healthcare premiums after March 31. For more than two decades, poor people with HIV have used funds from the federal Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program to buy health insurance they could not otherwise afford. But earlier this month, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana began rejecting Ryan White payments sent on behalf of HIV patien...
Source: aids-write.org - February 27, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news Source Type: blogs
Bc Aids Awareness Committee Fundraises At ‘acapelooza’
Many people think that that disease cant affect me here, in the BC bubble, in the United States of America. But the reality is 1.2 million people in the U.S. still have the disease today, even with the advent of medication and treatments. He and the e-board decided to focus on the plight of HIV-infected children for this particular fundraiser. What HIV does is, it strips your body defenseless against pathogens, Bodair said. It leaves your immune system completely vulnerable, and unfortunately, its the most vulnerable among us who tend to get the disease, especially children. As a result, children born into families with mo...
Source: aids-write.org - February 25, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news Source Type: blogs
Tacaids Assured Of Government Support Over Hiv/aids Programme
We are ready to help you to face the challenges of attaining the plan. Only that you need to keep us constantly informed so that we can discuss them together, the Deputy Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Prime Ministers Office (PMO), Regina Kikuli, said over the weekend. Ms Kikuli made the assurance to the staff and family members of TACAIDS during a Family Day, organized by the Commission in which various matters pertaining eliminating HIV infections within family members and beyond were discussed. She said, the PMO, being the overall coordinator of all HIV-related activities and interventions in the country, was responsibl...
Source: aids-write.org - February 24, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news Source Type: blogs
Hiv Prevalence And Incidence Fall In Kenya
Comparison with the KAIS 2007 data showed that overall HIV prevalence had fallen significantly from 7.2 to 5.6% in 2012 (p = 0.002). Significant decreases were seen in both women (2007 = 8.5% vs 2012 = 6.9%; p = 0.006) and men (2007 = 5.5% vs 2007 = 4.4%; p = 0.031). Analysis of the factors associated with undiagnosed HIV infection (vs HIV-negative status) was restricted to the approximately 10,000 individuals who reported ever having sex. Overall HIV prevalence was 6.3% and 52% of these infections were undiagnosed. Factors associated with undiagnosed HIV infection in men were widowhood (AOR = 8.1; 95% CI, 1.9-34.6; p = 0....
Source: aids-write.org - February 22, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news Source Type: blogs
La. Hiv Patients Have Difficulty Getting Insurance
Guidance recently issued by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services encouraged health plans to accept the Ryan White program payments, but insurance companies say the law doesn’t require it. In a statement, Maginnis said the prohibition is designed to ensure that people aren’t being steered by a third-party payer to a specific product or health provider, to combat attempts to defraud the system. “We are applying this policy across the board to all individual members, regardless of their health status, type of plan purchased or previous method of paying for their health care coverage,”...
Source: aids-write.org - February 19, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news Source Type: blogs
Hiv Infection Risk Higher In Patients Receiving Mental Health Care
Of that group, several new HIV cases were detected, suggesting that not all patients are getting tested in mental health care settings, despite recommendations to do so from the CDC and the Institute of Medicine. The study is one of the largest studies to date to estimate HIV prevalence and risk factors among persons receiving treatment in mental health settings and included researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as the University of Maryland and Columbia University Medical Center. “These findings paint a recent picture of HIV infection rates in the community, and reinforce how...
Source: aids-write.org - February 17, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news Source Type: blogs
Louisiana Obamacare Insurer Unmoved By Legal Challenge On Its Aids Policy
Lucy Cordts of the New Orleans NO/AIDS Task Force, which has been scrambling to help affected Louisiana Blue customers, said several hundred people with HIV-AIDS had used Ryan White payments for their monthly premiums and could be kicked out of the Obamacare plan they purchased. Of the hundreds of people with HIV-AIDS who are trying to use Ryan White Act funds to pay Obamacare insurance premiums, many are too poor to qualify for ACA subsidies, which go to people whose income is 100 percent to 400 percent of the federal poverty level. Those with lower incomes, including many people with HIV-AIDS, were supposed to be covered...
Source: aids-write.org - February 14, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news Source Type: blogs
How Therapy Helped Me Cope With Hiv
My new husband also tested positive for HIV. The doctor told us that I had the disease for a long time and did not prescribe me any medication. He also said I gave my husband the virus so he prescribed antiretroviral drugs for him. How could this happen? You will find the original content at this website http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/07/opinion/gordon-hiv-mental-health/index.html (Source: aids-write.org)
Source: aids-write.org - February 10, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news Source Type: blogs
Saudi Stops Isolating Aids Patients
(SUPPLIED) Saudi Arabia no longer isolates patients infected with AIDS and lets them live a normal life following a breakthrough in the treatment of the killer disease over the past years, according to a specialist in the conservative Gulf kingdom. Dr Nizar Bahbiri, a contagious diseases consultant at Suleiman Faqih Hospital in the Western Saudi Red Sea port of Jeddah, said he believes there would be no medicine that would totally treat and prevent AIDS in the next 10 years but added that the current treatment allows AIDS victims to live a relatively normal life. In the past, we (doctors) used to say an infected man cann...
Source: aids-write.org - February 3, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news Source Type: blogs
Free Hiv, Hepatitis C Tests Available Friday At Willow Run Party Store
HARC’s mobile unit travels to numerous locations around Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti to offer anonymous, free HIV testing and referral services. HARC also offers free testing and counseling services at its office at 3075 Clark Road, Suite 203, in Ypsilanti. Call (734) 572-9355 for an appointment at the office, which is open Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., Wednesdays from 5 p.m. You will find the original content at this website http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2014/01/free_hiv_hepatitis_c_tests_ava.html (Source: aids-write.org)
Source: aids-write.org - January 3, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news aids news Source Type: blogs
