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Michelle Maykin, has been diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), which is a cancer of the blood. She is in urgent need of a bone marrow transplant. Michelle is 26 years old — she is an incredible human being and friend. Michelle was first diagnosed in February 2007. [...]
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Rise in life expectancy not for all groups
A long, steady rise in life expectancy in the United States apparently isn’t being shared by everyone, and hasn’t been for years, according to a new study.
While the overall life expectancy of Americans increased by about seven years between 1960 and 2000, the report by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and the [...]
How Epidemics Helped Shape the Modern Metropolis
On a Sunday in July 1832, a fearful and somber crowd of New Yorkers gathered in City Hall Park for more bad news. The epidemic of cholera, cause unknown and prognosis dire, had reached its peak.
People of means were escaping to the country. The New York Evening Post reported, “The roads, in all directions, were [...]
Migrant Workers in California Receive HIV Education
The migrant workers who have returned this season to often-isolated camps and barracks scattered over San Joaquin County farmland are at high risk of contracting and carrying HIV as they move across state and national lines, say public health advocates who face a range of obstacles in their work to prevent the virus’s spread.
Outside one [...]
NYC Hospitals to Offer Thousands of Rapid HIV Tests
City hospitals will offer tens of thousands of HIV tests that can produce results within 20 minutes under a deal hashed out by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
Quinn (D-Manhattan) persuaded OraSure Technologies, a medical test manufacturer, to donate the rapid tests to city hospitals so they don’t have to dip into their budgets to pay [...]
House Approves PEPFAR Bill
The House of Representatives yesterday passed a five-year reauthorization of the Bush administration’s global AIDS program, adding $20 billion to the $30 billion the president requested.
The program, originally known by the acronym PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), provides money to treat people infected with HIV and to help support their families, as well [...]
Conference Addresses HIV Among Pittsburgh’s Youth
One of the most frightening public health problems facing the country today involves teenagers and HIV-AIDS.
HIV infections are growing among teenagers, and some groups are hoping to put a stop to that through education and awareness.Despite expensive treatments, HIV-AIDS is very much around, and very much affecting their lives. All teenagers are at risk, but [...]
Op-Ed: Swiss Say Condoms Not Necessary…Sometimes
POZ Founder Sean Strub
The Swiss Federal Commission for HIV/AIDS released a remarkable statement a few weeks ago that opened the door to the possibility of sex without condoms for people with HIV.
Citing their review of a long string of studies measuring HIV transmission from people with HIV to HIV-negative partners, the Commission concluded that sex [...]
Report Shows 48% Hike In US HIV Cases
Reported new HIV infections in the United States increased by 48 percent in 2006 according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The stunning figures, in the CDC Surveillance Report, comes in advance of a long anticipated in depth review of HIV infections that was to have been released early this year [...]
An Epidemic No One Wants to Talk About
A much-publicized study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month highlighted the high rates of sexually transmitted diseases among teenage Americans. But for those of us who work in public health, this “news” is already old.
A decade ago, the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine published a landmark report, “The Hidden [...]