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Despite 9/11 and its anthrax aftermath, the majority of hospitals and their surrounding communities have slipped back into complacency and are dangerously unprepared for bioterrorism or other mass casualty events, according to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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Fatal heart attacks following smallpox vaccination of health care workers threaten to further derail a struggling government immunization program already suffering from a striking lack of hospital participation.
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The HIV/AIDS epidemic has grown to include about 1.6 million people who live in high-income countries, including the estimated 76,000 people who became infected with the virus in 2002.
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Facts: HIV/AIDS in the South
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With hundreds of HIV interventions available, community planning groups often are at a loss for deciding which ones to use. Now a new tool will allow health departments to enter local data and determine which programs are most cost-effective.
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Lack of funding and resources, combined with competing demands, help explain why only a handful of states have hepatitis prevention plans in place, according to a recently completed survey.
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After years of neglect, efforts are building to form a coalition that will draw more attention to the treatment and care needs of patients co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV). And while federal and state funding for HCV has remained flat or is being cut, health experts say integrating services is not as demanding as is often assumed.
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For the past three years, syphilis outbreaks in men who have sex with men (MSM) have worried health officials because of what they indicate about a resurgence in high-risk behaviors. But are these syphilis outbreaks facilitating HIV transmission or is syphilis contained mostly to MSM who are already HIV-positive?
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is moving quickly to monitor HIV incidence across the country using its detuned testing technology, with nearly $6 million this year committed to 24 sentinel cities.
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Chronic violence and abuse, often stemming from childhood neglect, are pervasive among HIV-positive people living in the rural South, according to two new studies. The findings suggest that clinicians need to address a host of interpersonal issues, ranging from sexual abuse to post-traumatic stress syndrome.