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HIV in the News : Free Health Care for the Uninsured Is Coming to Charlotte Next Month

Posted on 11/10/2010 (1441 reads)

Carolinians struggling with the lack of health insurance will soon get much-needed help when the National Association of Free Clinics (NAFC), in conjunction with the North Carolina Association of Free Clinics, holds its next C.A.R.E. (Communities Are Responding Everyday) Clinic at the Charlotte Convention Center on December 7.

"America's 1,200 free clinics serve as a lifeline to high-quality health care for so many in our country," NAFC Executive Director Nicole Lamoureux said. "While this year has been historic with the passage of health care reform and the sweeping change in Congress, millions of Americans struggle every day with a cold truth that health care is not affordable or accessible."

HIV in the News : What Next? The Election and Black America's AIDS Epidemic

Posted on 11/10/2010 (1209 reads)

Last Tuesday's election results have far-reaching implications for the nation's response to the AIDS epidemic and other health related issues in Black America. While the national media has focused attention on the "Tea Party" movement, most Republicans elected to Congress were mainstream conservatives. Yet all share a common political platform of deficit reduction, extending the Bush-era tax cuts, and hostility toward President Obama's signature legislative achievement: health care reform. These realities jeopardize the progress we've made so far toward ending the AIDS epidemic in Black communities and improving general health outcomes for Black people. They underscore the urgent need to reinvigorate our efforts to compel the nation's decision-makers to address a health crisis that isn't going away.

HIV in the News : CareFirst expands primary provider status to nurses

Posted on 11/9/2010 (1159 reads)

For the first time, medical insurer CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield of Baltimore will allow nurse practitioners to participate as independent primary care providers in its network.

The announcement on Thursday drew praise from state nurse practitioner groups and others, but the state's physician association criticized the policy change.

HIV in the News : New Lines of Attack in H.I.V. Prevention

Posted on 11/9/2010 (919 reads)

The hottest news in AIDS in the last year was the partial success in a South African clinical trial of a microbicide - a gel women can put in their vaginas to kill the virus before it can infect them.

The whole field of protection before sex is "red-hot cool right now," said Sharon L. Hillier, a gynecology professor at the University of Pittsburgh's medical school and principal investigator of the Microbicide Trials Network. "People are really energized."

HIV in the News : AIDS: Pioneer of “Treatment as Prevention” Approach to get Einstein Award

Posted on 11/9/2010 (934 reads)

The doctor who helped pioneer the "treatment as prevention" approach in the fight against HIV/AIDS will receive the Albert Einstein World Award of Science. Dr. Julio Montaner chaired the 18^th International AIDS Conference in Vienna last July.

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