Hiv Outreach Services

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Massachusetts Should Increase Funding for HIV/AIDS Prevention, Outreach Services, Editorial Says

Massachusetts as "recently as 2001" was "spending $51 million a year to prevent HIV/AIDS and provide services to those suffering from the disease," a Boston Globe editorial says. However, HIV/AIDS spending "plummeted" during the "budget crisis... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Tennessee: Outreach Program, Hotline Link HIV-Positive Residents With Needed Services

With direct federal funding, the Shelby County Ryan White program was formed in 2008 to address the area's high rate of new HIV/AIDS cases. Memphis and the eight surrounding counties average 450 new cases each year. Of the region's 7,156 people... Read more »

Health Service Utilization for People With HIV Infection: Comparison of a Population Targeted for Outreach With the U.S. Population in Care

"Many persons with HIV infection do not receive consistent ambulatory medical care and are excluded from studies of patients in medical care. However, these hard-to-reach groups are important to study because they may be in greatest need of... Read more »

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hiv + food service workers

I am writing a term paper on the implications and public risks of HIV+ workers in the food service industry. Can you give so insight on resources I should access to help me with this issue?...

Response from Lynne Gabriel

WorkPositive, Inc.

Your question is a good one with a fairly simple answer. An HIV+ person working in food service poses no more risk to the public than does any other employee -- if safety procedures (OSHA guidelines) are being properly adhered to and the workplace... Read more »

Student intern for Tulsa C.A.R.E.S., an agency that provides services for people with HIV?AIDS in the Oklahoma area.

Wanting to find resources to prove that exercise is important in a HIV/AIDS client. Is this statement true, can it help slow down process? Looking for information to write Grant to get our agency fitness equipment or at least some kind of exercise...

Response from Alvan Fisher, M.D.

Brown University School of Medicine

Please do a literature search, but start with Hellerstein's article (and the accompanying editorial by Dobbs) in last year's JAMA (I think one of the June issues).Alvan Fisher, M.D.... Read more »

HIV Positive People & Service Dogs

My primary care provider and psychologist both specialize in treatment and therapy of people who are HIV positive. They work together in my treatment. I am HIV positive and suffer from severe anxiety and secondary post traumatic stress, for which my...

Response from Christa Douaihy, Esq.

Member, City of NY Bar Association Committee on AIDS

Dear Writer,Yes, both HIV and AIDS are qualified "disabilities" under the Americans with Disabilities Act and as such, your status qualifies you for protection under the federal law. Since your doctors have already demonstrated how and why... Read more »

HIV and security clearances/military service

I'd also like to add some follow-up on this topic. The military has a policy for HIV-positive individuals stating they cannot be sent OCCONUS (outside continental US). This, of course, requires disclosure of your condition to your chain of...

Response from Nancy Breuer

WorkPositive, Inc.

Thank you for your contribution to the conversation. Yes, disclosure would be required to trigger this policy, but in many countries where the meds aren't available, testing at the border is the country's policy and discrimination is a... Read more »

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OPHA - Outreach and Prevention of HIV/AIDS

Posted by OPHA

Outreach and Prevention of HIV/AIDS, Inc., (OPHA), is a non profit agency that serves Black, White, Hispanic, and any other race of gay men of all ages who are infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. The agency serves the community through culturally and... Read more »

OPHA - Outreach and Prevention of HIV/AIDS

Posted by OPHA

Bilingual MSM Outreach Worker

Posted by Anonymous

AIDS Project New Haven
Bilingual MSM Outreach Worker

Non-traditional outreach to Latino MSM in bars and cruising areas. Get HIV+ Latino MSM into care and treatment,and provide prevention education to those uninfected. Facilitate multi-session gay... Read more »

need information on current outreach-prev methods

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

i work for the santa cruz aids projects and was wondering if anyone knows where i can fid information on the latest techniques for hiv prevention outreach for the msm (men who have sex with men) community
E-mail me at: jamesr@scapsite.org Read more »

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