AIDS Alert Archives – August 1, 2003
August 1, 2003
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AIDS groups praise U.S. for committing billions globally
Despite the Iraq war and an unimpressive HIV/AIDS domestic budget, President George W. Bush and the U.S. Congress kept their promise to earmark billions for international HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention. -
Millions for prevention could save billions
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of Atlanta set a national goal in 2001 of a 50% reduction in new HIV infections by 2005. -
Study: Disparity between rich and poor mortality
Before 1996, AIDS was an equal-opportunity disease in the United States, affecting wealthy and poor alike. In fact, researchers in one of the worlds AIDS epicenters could find no disparity between wealthy populations and poor populations in disease progression. -
STD rates began rising long ago, say researchers
Although recent increases in some sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) have worried public health officials about how this could signal a rise in new HIV cases, a new study shows that risk behavior among HIV-positive people has been a problem for at least a decade. -
Prevention program aims to change patient behavior
A Rochester, NY, program combines STD and HIV prevention and counseling to target some of the most difficult risk populations, including incarcerated people and HIV-infected people who have had reportable sexually transmitted diseases in the two years prior to or after their HIV diagnosis. -
Too many still fail to tell sex partners of serostatus
An analysis of disclosure of HIV status, taken from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study, shows that many HIV-infected people fail to tell sexual partners about their status. -
AIDS Alert International: Despite boost from U.S., Global Fund faces a struggle
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malarias ability to fund its third round of grant proposals was uncertain by early summer, as the G-8 summit produced little response to the United States challenge to fellow wealthy nations to more fully fund international AIDS efforts. -
AIDS Alert International: Prevention report finds worrisome financial gaps
Despite worldwide attention on sub-Saharan Africa and its AIDS epidemic, there is far too little access to HIV prevention services around the world, according to a recent report by the HIV Prevention Working Group.