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Are you comfortable talking about return on investment? How about loss run analysis? Those business concepts may sound like someone elses job. But if you talk the language of the hospitals financial officers, you may win unprecedented support for your ergonomics program.
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The Good Samaritan Project in Kansas City, MO, has HIV prevention and intervention programs for African-American women that draw on the knowledge and experiences of Jean Johnson, an outreach coordinator who also is African-American. A lot of these ideas are my ideas because Im African-American, and I know how to communicate with people who look like me, she says. I place a lot of emphasis on African-Americans with HIV because thats where HIV is now.
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Older Americans always have accounted for about 10% of the HIV population, but in Florida their share of the epidemic runs to 14% of the population, and the fastest growing rate of people newly diagnosed with HIV are women older than 50.
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FDA approves Hep C drugs; Oral fluid-based rapid HIV test approved.
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The Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-1-Infected Adults and Adolescents were updated March 23 and are available at the AIDS info web site. The guidelines were developed and updated by the panel on Clinical Practices for Treatment of HIV Infection, convened by the Department of Health and Human Services.
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While the United States has taken steps to prepare for smallpox bioterrorism event, the nation remains starkly vulnerable to a genetically engineered strain of the deadly virus.
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The Department of Defense (DoD) has halted mandatory anthrax vaccinations of military personnel after a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
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A large number of potentially suspicious letters and packages continue to be reported to federal, state, and local law enforcement and emergency response agencies nationwide, the Nov. 2, 2004, report states. In some instances, these letters or packages may include powders, liquids, or other materials.