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Recognizing Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

Today, June 8th, is Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day – an annual observance dedicated to increasing awareness of HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean American community. This is the eighth annual observance of the day, and we want to take a moment...

Published Fri, Jun 08 2012 11:35 AM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: HIV/AIDS Awareness Days, Communities of Color, HIV Policy & Programs

USG at AIDS 2012: Video with Dr. Anthony Fauci

Dr. Howard Koh, Assistant Secretary for Health at HHS, sat down with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH to discuss his speech at the opening plenary of AIDS 2012 and his 31 years as a physician...

Published Mon, Jul 23 2012 2:12 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: NIAID, HIV Policy & Programs, AIDS 2012

Assistant Secretary for Health Dr. Howard Koh Addresses AIDS 2012

During today’s AIDS 2012 plenary session, Assistant Secretary for Health Howard Koh, MD, MPH, discussed development and implementation of the United States’ first-ever comprehensive National HIV/AIDS Strategy. Dr. Koh provided an overview of the Strategy...

Published Tue, Jul 24 2012 8:36 AM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: National HIV/AIDS Strategy, HIV Policy & Programs, AIDS 2012

US Leads Effort to Build on Success in HIV Vaccine Science

When the HIV epidemic first emerged in the 1980s, the U.S. government immediately recognized the threat the disease could pose to U.S. and Allied Service Members. In this age of global deployments, HIV not only continues to pose a threat to Service Members...

Published Thu, Jul 19 2012 2:21 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: Global, PEPFAR Updates, AIDS 2012

AIDS 2012 and HRSA

With the approach of the AIDS 2012 conference, I have been thinking about the ways this landmark event will be important to HRSA’s stakeholder community. I want to highlight three of them: Understanding New Science: AIDS 2012 provides the scientific forum...

Published Wed, Jul 18 2012 10:32 AM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: HRSA, HIV Policy & Programs, AIDS 2012

Supporting Children Is Vital To Achieving an AIDS-Free Generation

“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” — Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa The impact of HIV and AIDS on children is devastating. To date, an estimated...

Published Wed, May 01 2013 4:12 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: Global, PEPFAR Updates

Presidential Proclamation — World Hepatitis Day, 2013

The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release July 25, 2013 Proclamation — World Hepatitis Day, 2013 WORLD HEPATITIS DAY, 2013 - – - – - – - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION...

Published Sun, Jul 28 2013 7:00 AM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: HIV Policy & Programs, Viral Hepatitis

On World AIDS Day, Tracking Our Progress

Editor’s Note: Today the White House held an event in recognition of World AIDS Day. Video from the livestreamed event will be posted tomorrow at http://www.whitehouse.gov/video. Click here for the fact sheet: Shared Responsibility to Strengthen...

Published Mon, Dec 02 2013 1:28 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: HIV/AIDS Awareness Days, HIV Policy & Programs

Learning More About your Audiences: Communities of Color on Twitter

Earlier this month we posted a blog on the Pew Internet and American Life Project’s report about African Americans and technology use. The data in the Pew report revealed that almost a quarter of African Americans who are online access Twitter, with 40...

Published Tue, Feb 04 2014 7:07 AM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: New Media, Communities of Color, Twitter

Global HIV/AIDS: A Moment To Look Back, and To Move Ahead

This week, I am in New York for the UN High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS. This discussion will mark critical milestones, including three decades of the pandemic and the 10-year anniversary of the 2001 UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS and the...

Published Wed, Jun 08 2011 9:57 AM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: Global, PEPFAR Updates

NIH Research Update: Treating HIV-infected People with Antiretrovirals Protects Partners from Infection

Today the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), released findings from a large-scale clinical study. This study found that men and women living with HIV who took oral antiretroviral...

Published Thu, May 12 2011 9:36 AM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: Research, NIAID

Reaching a New Generation of Americans: Re-energizing our Focus after 30 Years of AIDS

Thirty years ago, on June 5, 1981, CDC published the first report of cases of what is now known as acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). The article in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) reported on Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in...

Published Thu, Jun 02 2011 12:03 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: CDC, HIV Policy & Programs

National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day – February 7

(This message is also available on video.) On this National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, we have greater opportunity than ever before to reverse the HIV epidemic in Black America and the nation as a whole. Today, we have a National HIV/AIDS Strategy...

Published Mon, Feb 06 2012 1:50 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: HIV/AIDS Awareness Days, CDC, HIV Policy & Programs

Looking to AIDS 2012: Turning the Tide Together

For the first time in over 20 years, the biannual International AIDS Conference will be hosted on American soil. From July 22-27, AIDS 2012 will convene scientists, health professionals, policy makers and those affected by AIDS in Washington, D.C. to...

Published Thu, Mar 15 2012 1:00 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: Conferences, HIV Policy & Programs, PEPFAR Updates, AIDS 2012

Todd Park Named New U.S. Chief Technology Officer

I’m very excited that President Obama today is appointing Todd Park as the new U.S. Chief Technology Officer, with the important task of applying the newest technology and latest advances to make the Federal government work better for the American people...

Published Tue, Mar 13 2012 1:00 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: New Media, Open Government, HIV Policy & Programs

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