AIDS Alert Archives – February 1, 2010
February 1, 2010
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Routine, rapid HIV screening can work well in community health center settings
Health care providers have struggled with instituting routine HIV screening for adolescents and most adults since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), recommended such testing for everyone between 13 and 64 years of age in 2006. -
Research, clinic experience pave way for HIV screening
For community health care centers involved in the study of initiating rapid HIV screening, one of the key take-home messages is that this can be done efficiently with a little help from friends. -
Impact of HIV medication discontinuation on women
As the percentage of women impacted by HIV increases, researchers and clinicians need to learn more about how HIV-infected women differ in adherence and treatment than HIV-infected men. -
Scaling symptoms,self-efficacy for HIV
As HIV clinicians in Cleveland, OH, were testing a symptom management intervention, they found there weren't any good scales available. -
NIH and D.C. join in research initiative
The National Institutes of Health and the city of Washington, D.C. recently announced the new D.C. Partnership for HIV/AIDS Progress, a collaborative research initiative between NIH and the D.C. Department of Health designed to decrease the rate of new HIV infections in the city, improve the health of district residents living with HIV infection, and strengthen the city's response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. -
Abstract & Commentary: New DHHS Guidelines for Antiretroviral Therapy
The latest iteration of the DHHS guidelines was released December 1, 2009.