February 7th, 2012 - National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day - National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is a national HIV testing and treatment community mobilization initiative targeted at Blacks in the United States
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AIDS is a national crisis. President Obama should develop a results-oriented AIDS strategy.
The wealthiest nation in the world is failing its own people in responding to the AIDS epidemic at home. The U.S. must develop what it asks of other nations it supports in combating AIDS: a national strategy to achieve improved and more equitable results.
One of the most interesting conversations on a health topic happened recently on The Daily Show between Bono and Jon Stewart. Bono told Stewart that we were "at the beginning of the end of the AIDS epidemic," promising an announcement the next day that would explain how a combination of early treatment, treatment for pregnant women, and circumcision, would turn the epidemic around if the American people would continue to put money into the cause. Stewart responded cautiously: "I am looking forward to hearing that," he said, "because that sounds remarkable and people's hopes have been raised before about the end of this disease, but I really hope that there is something."
The conversation between the two captures the tension between the opportunity for new optimism and the continuing need for realism about the AIDS epidemic. How do we strike the right balance between these two messages? Are there other essential messages?
The in+care Campaign is a quality improvement initiative focusing on retaining patients living with HIV in care and preventing them from falling out of care. Federally funded HIV providers across the U.S. are invited to join this collaborative effort.
CARES Addressing HIV, STDs,and Testing at an Early Age
CARES believes empowering youth to educate each other about HIV prevention and testing is the best way to stop new infections among Sacramento's youth. It is often the risky behaviors young people engage in during their high school and college years that set them up for subsequent sexual health problems.
Youth often face barriers to HIV testing, such as lack of resources to pay for testing and fear of their parents and peers finding out they are getting tested for HIV and STDs.
CARES has a successful youth-focused program utilizing social networks, viral marketing and texting to inform youth about where to find free safe sex kits and testing sites in their area.
To help equip this program with a qualified base of educators, please forward this notice to any qualified college age or high school students.
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HIV & Aging: More adults are living with HIV
The miracle of growing old was all but unimaginable for them 30 years ago, at the dawn of the age of AIDS. But today the number of people 50 and older diagnosed with HIV or living with AIDS is booming, both across the country and in Sacramento County, where they account for more than a quarter of the 3,300 known cases.
A CDC study reported that new HIV infections in the United States continue at far too high a level, with an estimated 56,300 individuals becoming infected each year. Of all the new HIV cases discovered each year, at least one-third go undiagnosed for so long that the patients develops AIDS within a year of diagnosis.
So we're asking our allies in health care to help.
Please, talk to your patients about HIV
Offer regular testing
Share this message with your colleagues
And thank you for serving our community.
Here are some documents that you may find helpful:
Established in response to the devastating AIDS epidemic, CARES was founded in May of 1989. Since then, we’ve grown to become the leading HIV/AIDS care provider in the Sacramento area.
Thanks to the generous support of our funders and volunteers, CARES is able to treat thousands of people in need every year.
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