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Announcing the Leading Health Indicators Apps Challenge

Today, at the 138th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA), Dr. Howard Koh, our Assistant Secretary for Health, and I joined a distinguished group of health leaders for a discussion about the new “Leading Health Indicators” for...

Published Wed, Nov 09 2011 6:00 AM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: New Media, Web/Tech, Open Government, HIV Policy & Programs, Mobile, Healthy People Initiative

World AIDS Day 2011

On this World AIDS Day, the Department of Justice reconfirms its leadership role in combating discrimination against people with HIV and AIDS. We remain committed to realizing our mission under President Obama’s landmark National HIV/AIDS Strategy, to...

Published Thu, Dec 01 2011 3:20 PM by AIDS.gov blog

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

A Remarkable Day: The Beginning of the End of AIDS

Optimism. Passion. Poignancy. Excitement. Last week’s World AIDS Day observances generated these emotions worldwide. Thirty years ago, when the first federal first reports of AIDS emerged, none of the new media tools we use today were available...

Published Tue, Dec 13 2011 5:58 AM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: New Media, HIV/AIDS Awareness Days, Social Networks, Blogs, Twitter, Video Sharing

Seattle Meeting Focuses on Ideas to Strengthen the HIV Workforce

On October 4, 2011, the Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) hosted the second in a series of five Implementation Dialogues in Seattle Washington at Swedish Medical Center. The theme for this meeting was “Building Capacity Within the HIV Workforce so...

Published Thu, Oct 13 2011 10:23 AM by AIDS.gov blog

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

New Media Round-Up

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you probably know that planning is a very important part of our approach to new media. What you might not know is that we often plan our blog posts, particularly those about new media, weeks in advance. We...

Published Tue, Sep 27 2011 3:01 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: Conferences, New Media, Social Networks, Gaming

Why This Year’s U.S. Conference on AIDS Is So Essential

Written by Paul Kawata, Executive Director, National Minority AIDS Council I believe that this year’s United States Conference on AIDS (November 10-13) in Chicago, is one of the most important in our history. Our movement is at a crossroads as we...

Published Mon, Sep 26 2011 12:41 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: Conferences, HIV Policy & Programs

Medicare Steps Up Enforcement of Equal Visitation and Representation Rights for Same Sex Partners in Hospitals

Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced new guidance to support enforcement of rules that protect hospital patients’ right to choose their own visitors during a hospital stay, including a visitor who is a same-sex domestic...

Published Thu, Sep 08 2011 10:55 AM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: LGBTQ Health, CMS

30 Years of AIDS: Dázon Dixon Diallo from SisterLove on Women, Progress, and the Road Ahead

In the second of our six-week video series, SisterLove founder Dázon Dixon Diallo, MPH, discusses 30 years of HIV/AIDS in the U.S. In this video, Ms. Dixon Diallo talks about starting SisterLove, a reproductive justice organization for women, with a focus...

Published Mon, Aug 29 2011 2:48 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: HIV Policy & Programs, 30 Years of AIDS

National HIV Prevention Conference – Highlights of Day 1

With this post we launch a series of daily re-caps from the National HIV Prevention Conference underway now in Atlanta. More than 3,000 public health, medical and AIDS community leaders are gathered here to share the latest research and discuss innovative...

Published Mon, Aug 15 2011 10:00 AM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: National HIV/AIDS Strategy

As HIV Turns 30, Attention Turns to an Aging Epidemic

The opinions expressed in this post are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official positions or policies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or other Federal agencies. Just two months before the 30th anniversary of...

Published Thu, Jun 30 2011 2:07 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: LGBTQ Health, HIV Policy & Programs

Scientific Advances and the Fight Against AIDS

This week, I am in Rome, Italy, for the International AIDS Society’s Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment, and Prevention. This gathering of researchers caps a year of incredible scientific announcements, and I anticipate even more at this...

Published Mon, Jul 18 2011 9:54 AM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: Global, PEPFAR Updates

6th International AIDS Society Conference Underway This Week

This week, over 5,000 delegates from around the world are attending the 6th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2011) in Rome, Italy. This biannual conference is the world’s largest open scientific...

Published Mon, Jul 18 2011 9:23 AM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: HIV Vaccine, Conferences, HIV Policy & Programs

The State and Future of HIV/AIDS Webinar

On June 5, many in the HIV/AIDS community and beyond will stop to recognize the 30 years of AIDS, remember the first report of the cases of AIDS and look at where we have come in our response to the HIV epidemic. In commemoration, on June 15 at 3pm ET...

Published Wed, Jun 01 2011 2:11 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: HIV/AIDS Awareness Days, Ryan White Program, Web Conferences, CDC, Affordable Care Act, HIV Policy & Programs

Upcoming Event: NIH’s Dr. Fauci’s Talk “Thirty Years of HIV/AIDS: A Personal Journey”

June 5, 2011 will mark 30 years since the first cases of AIDS were reported in the U.S. On Tuesday, May 31, at 2pm ET, Dr. Anothy Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health...

Published Mon, May 23 2011 9:25 AM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: NIAID, HIV Policy & Programs

It is a Civil Right to Live Free from Discrimination on the Basis of HIV/AIDS Status

By David W. Knight, Trial Attorney, Disability Rights Section, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice When the Attorney General, Eric H. Holder, Jr., signed the Justice Department’s operational plan (PDF 354 KB) for implementing the National...

Published Wed, May 04 2011 1:27 PM by AIDS.gov blog

Filed under: Policy, People Living With HIV, Department of Justice

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