AIDS Alert Archives – February 1, 2003
February 1, 2003
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Guarding HIV-positives against vaccine reaction in the age of bioterror
Four days before President George W. Bush announced a national smallpox vaccination plan last month, a group of public health experts heaved a sigh of relief. In a meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney, they had finally managed to convince the administration not to follow a policy of mass, pre-emptive smallpox inoculation. -
Good advice for immune-compromised patients
Because comprehensive scientific data are lacking, health experts can only conjecture about the possible ramifications of smallpox vaccinations on people with HIV and AIDS. Here is the advice most experts are offering. -
HIV poses challenges for Southern states
When discussions turn to HIV/AIDS, most people assume the U.S. epidemic is primarily a northeastern and western coast problem, where most of the AIDS activism and media attention are focused. Statistics paint a different picture, one that greatly affects the availability of resources and health care services for HIV patients. -
Dallas group builds a black MSM community
For an AIDS service organization to succeed in attracting an elusive and at-risk population, it must demonstrate that outreach workers care about the clients and accept them just as they are, according to a long-time HIV/AIDS activist who has succeeded where others have failed. Renaissance III of Dallas recently opened the states first community center for young African-American men who have sex with men (MSM). -
AIDS Alert International: AIDS destroying hands that rock the world’s cradle
The latest AIDS epidemic news blaring out to the international health community as 2002 drew to a close was particularly devastating because it offered strong evidence that women increasingly are infected with HIV and are dying of AIDS, and that their proportion of the epidemics toll now is close to 50% worldwide. -
AIDS Alert International: African prevention efforts yield hope for future
HIV prevention continues to offer the worlds best hope in stopping the AIDS epidemic, and recent success stories in South Africa and Uganda prove that these work, according to the recent AIDS Epidemic Update report by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland.