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Medicare Expands Coverage for Treating Facial Lipodystrophy Syndrome in People Living With HIV

Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a press release to announce its decision to cover facial injections for Medicare beneficiaries who experience symptoms of depression due to the stigmatizing appearance of severely...

Published Mon, Mar 29 2010 2:45 PM by AIDS.gov blog

A Conversation with Project Inform

Guest post by Alan McCord, Director of Information and Outreach, and Dana Van Gorder, ED, Project Inform We use this blog to share some of the resources and work being done in the HIV community, focusing on organizations that are... Read More...

Published Tue, Mar 30 2010 12:05 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: New Media, Web/Tech, Text messaging/Mobile

CDC Expands Successful HIV Testing Initiative

by Kevin Fenton, M.D., Ph.D. on April 01, 2010 (Cross-posted from the White House Office of National AIDS Policy Blog) Kevin Fenton, M.D., Ph.D. Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that we will be expanding our... Read...

Published Fri, Apr 02 2010 11:31 AM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: Policy, Testing

Using the Internet to Provide HIV-Prevention Messages to Men Who Have Sex with Men

By Miguel Gomez, AIDS.gov Director On Wednesday, March 24, I had the pleasure of taking part in a day-long meeting about using the Internet to provide effective HIV-prevention messages to men who have sex with men (MSM). The meeting was... Read More....

Published Tue, Apr 06 2010 2:47 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: New Media, LGBTQ Health

Open for Change

At AIDS.gov, we are committed to and excited about the Open Government Initiative and wanted to share this blog post announcing the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Inaugural Open Government Plan. This initiative is important to the HIV community...

Published Thu, Apr 08 2010 1:00 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: Policy, Open Government

ONAP Releases Report of Community Recommendations for the National HIV/AIDS Strategy

By Gregorio Millett, Senior Policy Advisor in the White House Office of National AIDS Policy (Cross-posted from the Office of National AIDS Policy Blog) Last fall, the Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) asked Americans to give us their input... Read...

Published Fri, Apr 09 2010 12:49 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: National AIDS Strategy, Policy

The Voices of Non-Profits: AIDS.gov at the National Technology Conference

We attended the 2010 National Technology Conference (NTC) sponsored by the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) last week, along with hundreds of nonprofit organizations from across the country. We heard from a diverse group of presenters and attendees...

Published Tue, Apr 13 2010 4:43 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: Conferences, New Media

Respecting the Rights of Hospital Patients: Presidential Memorandum

By Miguel Gomez, AIDS.gov Director On April 15, a PresidentialMemorandum was released about hospital visitations related to the rights of hospital patients to receive visitors and to designate surrogate decision makers for medical emergencies. This is...

Published Fri, Apr 16 2010 2:26 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: Policy, LGBTQ Health

New Media Microgrant Awardees

By Miguel Gomez, AIDS.gov Director When we launched this blog over two years ago, we stated our commitment to learning along with you to find new and creative ways to use new media in response to HIV/AIDS. Last week, we... Read More...

Published Tue, Apr 20 2010 1:51 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: Communities of Color, LGBTQ Health, Youth, Microgrants

ONAP to Hold Community Meeting and Conference Call on the National HIV/AIDS Strategy

By Jeffrey S. Crowley, Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy and Senior Advisor on Disability Policy (Cross-posted from the Office of National AIDS Policy Blog) On Friday, May 14, 2010, the White House Office of National AIDS Policy... Read More...

Published Mon, Apr 26 2010 9:59 AM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: Policy, National HIV/AIDS Strategy

Widget Update: AIDS Institute’s Clinical Education Initiative

Guest Post by Cheryl Smith, MD, Associate Medical Director for Clinical Careand Services, New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute Every hour and 50 minutes a New Yorker is infected with HIV. In an effort to avert further HIV... Read More.....

Published Tue, Apr 27 2010 2:34 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: New Media, Widgets

Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS: Meeting Updates

By Miguel Gomez, AIDS.gov Director Reverend Calvin Butts and Anita McBride are sworn in The Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) held it’s 39th Full Council Meeting on Monday, April 26. The meeting began with a recap of February’s PACHA....

Published Mon, May 03 2010 5:43 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: Policy, PEPFAR, National HIV/AIDS Strategy, PACHA

Health Information Technology and the Response to HIV

By Miguel Gomez, AIDS.gov Director We are excited to present this video as part of a series on health information technology (health IT). We’ve talked about personal health records and HIV before, and today we want to share a bit... Read More...

Published Tue, May 04 2010 2:08 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: Health Information Technology, New Media

Drug Regimen with Short Pauses Controls HIV and Could Lower Costs, Toxicity

By Laura Sivitz, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH Antiretroviral drugs for HIV infection usually are taken daily, and interrupting treatment for long periods of time has proven detrimental. However, a clinical trial in Uganda...

Published Mon, May 10 2010 2:00 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: Research, NIAID, NIH

Why Mobile for AIDS.gov?

By Jeremy Vanderlan, AIDS.gov Web Developer Later this month, social media and public health leaders from around the country will gather at Stanford for MobileHealth 2010 . We're pleased to co-host this conference with our colleagues at Stanford University's...

Published Tue, May 11 2010 11:36 AM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: Conferences, New Media, Text messaging/Mobile

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