Archive of Articles From AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA)

Reports

• Older Adults and HIV: A Special Report and Action Plan (November 2010)
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• Preventing HIV in Older Adults (PDF) (2008)
• Research on Older Adults With HIV (PDF) (2006)
• Viral Hepatitis and HIV (2004)
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• Understanding Your Lab Results (2004)
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• Treatment Issues for Women (November 2002)
• Managing Drug Side Effects (August 2002)
• HIV Drug Resistance and Resistance Testing (2001)
• A Comprehensive Look at Clinical Trials (2000)

Achieve

Volume 7, Number 4

• PrEParing Latinos for HIV Prevention
• It Is Well With My Soul: Being Gay and Black in the Church
• Black Men and HIV: Talk About It!
• What About Women?
• A Right to Equal Care: Health Inequalities Among People of Color
• Stepping Up With an Open Heart
• HIV Criminalization and People of Color
• Affordable Housing: Key to Ending the Epidemic

Volume 7, Number 3

• Aging With HIV: What We Know and What You Can Do
• Sex After Sixty: Talking With Seniors About Sex
• The Women From TV Are Now My Angels as I Fight Against HIV/AIDS
• Managing the Triple Threat: Strategies for Older Gay Men With HIV
• Focus on Sex: HIV Prevention and Social Media Messaging for People Over 50
• Who Will Be There for Me?: A Trans Perspective on Aging With HIV
• Addressing Aging and HIV in New York State
• Redoing the Math: New York State Revises Its Estimate of People With HIV

Volume 7, Number 2

• Are Condoms Over? Research and Reality for Gay Men
• Hepatitis C: A Risk for Gay Men
• My Secret Life
• Latino MSM: Identifying Needs, Eliminating Barriers
• Undocumented and Unsure
• The Unending Paradox: Why Are HIV Rates Higher in Black MSM?
• A Lost Gem: Victor Pond

Volume 7, Number 1

• Bending the Curve: Can New York End Its AIDS Epidemic?
• Wrap-Around Care: A Necessity, Not a Luxury
• Slogans Won't End AIDS
  The role of community education.
• With a Little Help From the Choir
• A Magic Pill to End AIDS?
• Moving Toward PreP
• Can We End AIDS in the South?
• Racing for the Podium

Volume 6, Number 4

• Promise and Peril: The New Hep C Drugs
• Fighting for Lamont: The Battle for Transplants for People With HIV
• Lamont's Legacy: A Personal Perspective
• Watchdogging the ACA for People With HIV
• Navigating the ACA: One Man's Journey
• HIV Generics in the U.S.: Sooner or Later?
• HIV Health Literacy in the South: A Work in Progress

Volume 6, Number 3

• Are You HIP? Making Sense of High-Impact Prevention
  By Emily Bass, Jessica Handibode and Steven-Emmanuel Martinez
• Drugs, Fear and Loathing: Why Are So Few Getting HIV Prevention Drugs?
  By Jim Eigo
• What's Behind Rising HIV Infections in Youth?
  By Mark Milano
• When I Was Young and Didn't Know Better
  By Ernesto
• Is a Microbicide the Game-Changer Gay Men Need?
  By Mark Milano
• Slipping Through the Cracks: Why Does Mother-to-Child Transmission Still Happen?
  By Pamala Ellis, R.N., B.S.N., C.M.C., A.C.R.N.
• My Baby Has HIV
• Fighting for Women: HIV Prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa
  By Dan Eddie Nthara
• The Five Pillars: A Plan to End the AIDS Epidemic in New York State

Volume 6, Numbers 1-2

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• Breaking Through: HIV and African Americans
  By Charles Stephens
• Labels Won't End HIV
  By Kali Lindsey
• Caring for the (Near) Majority: Addressing the Needs of Older Adults With HIV
  By Liz Seidel
• Do As I Say, Not As I Do
  By Marvin Freeman
• Shared Values, Distinct Cultures: HIV Care for Latinos in the U.S.
  By Luis Scaccabarrozzi
• I'm Not Stupid, Just Different
  By Tony
• A Hidden Crsis: HIV in the Two-Spirit Community
  By Harlan Pruden, Tim Nuttle and Shannon Finucane
• Turning the Tide: Sex Workers in the U.S.
  By Sarah Elspeth Patterson, M.Ed.
• From Stigma to Pride
  By Amanda Reese
• The New Politics of Spending: Ryan White, Medicaid and the ACA
  By William McColl

Fall/Winter 2012

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• AIDS Activism: Fight Back! End AIDS!
  By Matt Sharp
• Ending Homelessness to End AIDS
  By Nancy Bernstine and Christine Campbell
• Caught in the Middle
  By Todd Livingston
• Men and Women Demand Rectal Microbicides
  By Jim Pickett and Mitchell Warren
• The Battle to End AIDS: Show Me The Money!
  By Brook K. Baker
• The Road Less Traveled
  By Bambi W. Gaddist, Dr.P.H.

Fall 2012

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• Where's the Cure? A Look at Research Across the U.S.
  By Stephen LeBlanc
• Changing My Genes
  By Octavio J. Vallejo, M.P.H.
• Inching Toward a Vaccine
  By Deirdre Grant
• The Future of HIV Prevention
  By Liz Highleyman
• Hepatitis C: New Dangers, New Hopes
  By Aaron Arnold and Mark Milano
• My Fight for a Hepatitis C Cure
  By Lynda Dee
• Looking Back, Looking Forward
  By Tom Duane
• Sex Workers Not Welcome Here
  By Rachel Thomas

Spring/Summer 2012

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• HIV NEG UB2: Does Serosorting Protect You?
  By David Halperin and Robert Valadéz
• Adventures in Online Cruising
  By David Caron
• Personal Perspective: Dating and Disclosing
  By Jaszi Alejandro
• Can a Pill a Day... Keep HIV Away?
  By Liza Behrendt
• Personal Perspective: A Hope For Our Son
  By Rica Rodriguez
• Having A Baby When You Have HIV
  By Mark Milano
• Personal Perspective: A Story of Magnetic Love
  By Shannon and Tom Southall
• Prevention or Prosecution? A Community Forum
  By Mark Milano
• Editorial: Have Sex!

Fall 2011

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• Living With HIV -- and Everything Else!
  By Michael Modzelewski and Richard Havlik, M.D., M.P.H.
• The Cancer That Dare Not Speak Its Name
  By Camille Almada and Nicoletta Bumbac
• Personal Perspective -- The Good Patient: Fighting Anal Cancer
  By Mark Milano
• Complementary & Alternative Medicine and Healthy Living
  By Andrew S. London, Ph.D.
• The Odd Couple: HIV and Bacteria
  By Sarah Robertson, R.D., C.D.N.
• Personal Perspective: Staying in the Game, Despite the Odds
  By James Russell
• Editorial -- Health Homes: Keeping Clients Front and Center

Summer 2011

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• Prosecuting HIV: Take the Test and Risk Arrest?
  By Sean Strub
• HIV and HCV in U.S. Prisons: Debunking the Myths
  By Elizabeth Lovinger
• Personal Perspective: Keep It to Yourself
  By Priscilla Hall
• Getting Out and Staying Out: Making Discharge Planning Work
  By Mark Milano
• Since When Are Condoms Illegal?
  By Melissa Ditmor, Angela Torregoza, and Andrew Silapaswan
• Personal Perspective: Freed From Prison, But Not Free
  By Michael Booth
• Anti-HIV Criminalization Bill Introduced
  By Julie Turkewitz
• Editorial: The Prison Rape Elimination Act

Spring 2011

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• A New Era for HIV Health Care
  By Robert Greenwald and Amy Killelea
• From Strategy to Reality: What We Need to Know to Make the NHAS Work
  By Stephen F. Morin, Ph.D., Raymond A. Smith, Ph.D., and Robert H. Remien, Ph.D.
• The ADAP Crisis: Waiting for Meds
  By Lanny Cross
• New Hope for a Cure
  By Mark Milano and Donna M. Kaminski, D.O., M.P.H.
• The Changing Face of HIV Testing
  By Nelson Villegas
• The National AIDS Strategy: An Opportunity for Activism
  By John Hellman
• Congressional Forecast: Proceed With Caution
  An editorial.

Winter 2010/2011

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• Preventing HIV: New Tools, New Hope
  By Sam Kalibala, M.D., Sarah Littlefield, M.P.H., and Robert Valadéz, M.S.W.
• Young People and HIV: A Realistic Approach to Prevention
  By Jennifer Augustine and Emily Bridges
• Speak Out for Safer Sex
• Stigma and MSM: A Barrier to Prevention
• Can I Get an "Amen" for HIV Awareness?
  By Vanessa
• Inching Our Way Forward: Funding Sex Education
  By Jen Heitel Yakush
• HIV Prevention and Older Adults
  By Luis Scaccabarrozzi
• P(r)aying for PEP
  By Luis Scaccabarrozzi
• Editorial: Toward More Positive Prevention

Fall 2010

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• The End of AIDS? Could Universal Testing and Treatment End the Epidemic?
  By Liz Highleyman
• Flat Funding for AIDS: The Human Cost
  By Brook K. Baker
• Could a New Tax Save the Lives of Millions of People With HIV Around the World?
  By Asia Russell
• Fighting for South Africa
  By Mpumi Mantangana
• Taking It to the Streets
  By Kaytee Riek
• Europe! Hands Off Our Medicine!
  A global campaign to stop the attack on affordable medicines.
  By Sheila Shettle and Alexandra Lee
• Disaster in Haiti
  By Kristin Goodwin
• Creating Opportunity From Challenge

Summer 2010

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• Still Got It at Seventy
  Sexuality, aging and HIV.
  By Katherine Githens and Emily Abramsohn, M.P.H.
• Let's Talk About Sex
  Interviewing older adults about HIV and risk.
  By Luis Scaccabarrozzi
• Men on the Down Low
  By Adrian Guzman, M.P.H.
• Personal Perspective: I'm Not Gay
  By Joseph
• How to Transform HIV Prevention
  By Raquel Sapién and Robert Valadéz
• Personal Perspective: The Trials of Transition
  By Regine Singleton
• Women and HIV: A Nuanced Epidemic
  By Naina Khanna
• Report From Vienna: Progress and Challenges
• ACRIA Trials in Progress

Spring 2010

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• HIV and Inflammation: A New Threat
  By Donna M. Kaminski, M.P.H.
• Medicaid Managed Care for People With HIV in New York City
• HIV Prevention: A Changing Outlook
  By Deirdre Grant and Sarah Littlefield
• Personal Perspective: Take a Number, Please
  By Amy Bell-May
• The Testing Debate: Is Written Consent a Barrier?
  By Tracie Gardner and Daryl J. Cochrane, M.P.A.
• The Return of "Hit Hard, Hit Early!"
  Just when you thought it was safe to wait ...
  By Mark Milano
• Personal Perspective -- HIV: The New and the Now
  By Lisa Frederick
• The Cult of HIV Denialism
  By Jeanne Bergman, Ph.D.
• Editorial -- HIV and Gay Men: A Global Concern

• Winter 2009/2010
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• Fall 2009
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• Summer 2009
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• Spring 2009
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• Winter 2008/2009
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• Fall 2008
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• Summer 2008
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ACRIA Update Newsletter (formerly CRIA Update)

• Winter 2008
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• Fall 2007
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• Spring 2007
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• Summer 2007
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• Spring 2007
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• Winter 2006/2007
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• Fall 2006
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• Summer 2006
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• Spring 2006
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• Winter 2005/2006
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• Fall 2005
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• Summer 2005
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• Spring 2005
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• Winter 2004/2005
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• Fall 2004
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• Summer 2004
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• Spring 2004
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• Fall 2003/Winter 2004
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• Summer 2003
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• Spring 2003
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• Winter 2002/2003
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• Fall 2002
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• Summer 2002
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• Spring 2002
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• Winter 2001/2002
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• Fall 2001
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• Summer 2001
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• Spring 2001
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• Winter 2000/2001
• Fall 2000
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• Summer 2000
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• Spring 2000
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• Winter 1999/2000
• Fall 1999
• Summer 1999
• Spring 1999
• Winter 1998/1999
• Fall 1998
• Summer 1998
• Spring 1998

Press Releases

• FDA Grants Priority Review for Crofelemer (March 16, 2012)
• Activists Caution HIV-Positive Patients and Their Physicians About Monotherapy in Upcoming Access Program (February 9, 2012)
• ACRIA Partners With New York Academy of Sciences for Educational Symposium on May 16 (April 29, 2011)
  The symposium is titled "Cracking the Safe: Advances in HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment."

Community Forum Summaries

• HAART Break: An Update on Structured Treatment Interruptions (July 2002)
• Relax, It's Just SEX! (March 13, 2002)
• Rectal Health (December 12, 2001)
• The Kitchen Sink and More: New Antiretrovirals and Evolving Strategies (October 17, 2001)
• Ups and Downs: Party Drugs and HIV Medications (July 2001)
• Hepatitis, HIV and Your Liver (June 2001)
• Vaccines Therapy (May 2001)
• Side Effect Management: Body, Heart and Nerves (April 2001)
• Psychological Issues and HIV: Dealing with the Uncertainty of Changing Treatment Strategies (March 2001)
• Upcoming HIV/AIDS Community Education Forums in New York City (March 2001)
• Entry and Integrase Inhibitors: The Next Class of Drugs (January 2001)
• Lipodystrophy and Women (November 2000)
• STDs and HIV (October 2000)
• Benefits of Diet, Supplements, and Exercise in HIV Care (July 2000)
• Stop, Start, Switch (June 2000)

Material in Spanish (en Español)

• Previniendo el VIH: Nuevas Herramientas, Nuevas Esperanzas (Invierno de 2010/2011)
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• Los Jóvenes y el VIH: Un Enfoque Realista Para la Prevención (Invierno de 2010/2011)
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• Hable del Sexo Seguro (Invierno de 2010/2011)
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• El Estigma y los HSH: Una Barrera a la Prevención (Invierno de 2010/2011)
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• ¿Puedo Obtener un "Amén" por la Concientización Sobre el VIH? (Invierno de 2010/2011)
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• Avanzando de a Poco: Financiación de la Educación Sexual (Invierno de 2010/2011)
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• Adultos Mayores y la Prevención del VIH (Invierno de 2010/2011)
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• Rezando por PEP (Invierno de 2010/2011)
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• Editorial: Hacia una Prevención Más Positiva (Invierno de 2010/2011)
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• ¿El Fin del SIDA? ¿Podría la Prueba Universal y el Tratamiento Poner Fin a la Epidemia? (Otoño de 2010/2011)
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• Financiación Fija Para el SIDA: El Costo Humano (Otoño de 2010/2011)
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• ¿Podría un Nuevo Impuesto Salvar las Vidas de Millones de Personas Con VIH en Todo el Mundo? (Otoño de 2010/2011)
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• Luchando por Sudáfrica (Otoño de 2010/2011)
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• Llevándolo a las Calles (Otoño de 2010/2011)
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• ¡Europa! ¡No Toquen Nuestras Medicinas! (Otoño de 2010/2011)
  Una campaña global para eliminar el ataque contra las medicinas asequibles.
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• Desastre en Haití (Otoño de 2010/2011)
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• Creando Oportunidad ante el Reto (Otoño de 2010/2011)
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• Thrive (Verano de 2008)
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• Previniendo el VIH en Adultos Mayores (2008)
• ACRIA Update (Verano de 2007)
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• ACRIA Update (Primavera de 2007)
• ACRIA Update (Verano de 2006)
• Como Comprender Sus Resultados del Laboratorio (2004)
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• Hepatitis Viral y VIH (2004)
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• Asuntos de Tratamiento Para las Mujeres (2002)
• Control de los Efectos Secundarios (2002)
• Explicación de los Estudios Clínicos (2001)