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2010 Online News Briefs


Online News Briefs July 2010 #5
  • Gel Found to Reduce HIV Risk in Women
  • Canadian Study Confirms HAART as "Fundamental Prevention Strategy"
  • Heinz Family Philanthropies, Welvista, Abbott, and Merck Join to Help Solve ADAP Crisis
  • Study Reveals Promise for NAT HIV Test

Online News Briefs July 2010 #4
  • National HIV/AIDS Strategy Unveiled
  • Pressure Grows to End ADAP Waiting Lists
  • Live Webcasts from the International AIDS Conference Start July 18
  • Partners for AIDS 2012 Selected
  • Advocacy Group Reports On the Search For a Cure
  • Study Indicates Gay Couples Need HIV Prevention
  • Correction to July 6th E-Update RE: Atripla Assitance Program

Online News Briefs July 2010 #3
  • HIV Community Reacts to National HIV/AIDS Policy

Online News Briefs July 2010 #2
  • Sebelius Allocates $25 Million for ADAPs
  • ADAP Crisis Task Force Reaches Agreement with Boehringer Ingelheim
  • ViiV Healthcare Announces Positive Action U.S. Southern Initiative
  • Progress in Quest for HIV Vaccine
  • New Genetic Avenues to HIV/AIDS Research Discovered
  • Governmental Inertia Halts Implementation of Syringe Exchange Legislation
  • “Hell Freezes Over” Meets “God Hates Fags”

Online News Briefs July 2010 #1
  • Governor Quinn Saves Illinois AIDS Drug Assistance Program
  • FDA Approves First Hepatitis C Rapid Test
  • Atripla Co-pay Program Now Saves More Money
  • Scientists and Other Leaders Call for Reform of International Drug Policy
  • Cook County Jail Launches HIV/STD Testing Initiative
  • St. Louis VA Medical Center May Have Exposed Vets to Hepatitis C and HIV

Online News Briefs June 2010 #5
  • FDA Approves Abbott’s New HIV Test
  • PrEP Could Affect Condom Use
  • Dr. Daniel Berger Continues On
  • CDC Launches “HIV Screening. Standard Care.”
  • ADAP Funding Threatened By Tea Party Pressure?
  • Leading HIV/AIDS Research Organization Joins with University of California, Berkeley

Online News Briefs June 2010 #4
  • June 27 is National HIV Testing Day
  • Be Greater Than AIDS: Get Yourself Tested Week Begins
  • Panel Advises No Change in Restrictions on Gay Blood Donors
  • Myriad Pharmaceuticals Announces Suspension of HIV Drug Development
  • National AIDS Fund Expands AmeriCorps Program

Online News Briefs June 2010 #3
  • New Dose of Selzentry for Patients with Kidney Disease
  • ViiV Healthcare and Gilead Sciences Join with ADAP Crisis Task Force to Assist Struggling ADAPs
  • White House Hosts Meeting on HIV and African American Men
  • D.C. AIDS Director Resigns
  • Sports Stars Join the Fight
  • ViiV Healthcare and Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Partner to Expedite Treatment Access for African Children

Online News Briefs June 2010 #2
  • Tesamorelin Gets FDA Advisory Committee’s Unanimous Vote
  • Use of Lubricants with Anal Sex Could Increase Risk of HIV
  • Ford Foundation Grants $25 Million to Fight HIV in High-risk Populations
  • Visual AIDS Uses Art to Promote Men’s Health

Online News Briefs June 2010 #1
  • Senate Takes Action on ADAP Crisis
  • Illinois May Join ADAP Waiting List Crisis
  • D.C. to Begin Using Trojan Condoms in HIV Prevention Program
  • Congressmen Support Same-Sex Families in Immigration Reform
  • Website Offers Comprehensive Info on All STD/STIs

Online News Briefs May 2010 #4
  • Illinois Advisory Panel Recommends Immediate Waiting List for AIDS Drugs
  • New Vaginal Microbicides May Block HIV
  • amfAR Consortium Searches for HIV/AIDS Cure
  • CDC Offers Help Promoting National HIV Testing Day

Online News Briefs May 2010 #3
  • IDPH Pulls “He’s the One” Ad Campaign
  • National AIDS Fund Announces Major Grants
  • Mr. Spraggins Goes to Washington
  • ADAP Crisis Task Force, Pharmaceutical Companies and Heinz Family Philanthropies Come to the Aid of ADAPs
  • Avexa Scraps NRTI Apricitabine
  • Obama Administration’s National Drug Control Policy Applauded

Online News Briefs May 2010 #2
  • 2010 International AIDS Conference Lines Up High-Powered Speakers
  • Researchers Explore Natural HIV Immunity
  • Racial Disparities Found in Taking of Sexual Histories in Emergency Rooms
  • (RED) Launches “The Lazarus Effect” Campaign

Online News Briefs May 2010 #1
  • News from Gilead on TMC278 and GS9450
  • Women’s SitRelief Shorts Now Available
  • ADAP Crisis Deepens; 1,001 Individuals Now on Waiting Lists
  • Illinois First to Pass State Health Care Reform Legislation

Online News Briefs April 2010 #4
  • Gilead’s “Quad” Pill Enters Phase 3 Trials
  • President Obama Widens Medical Rights for LGBT Partners and Families
  • Law Enforcement and Harm Reduction Network (LEAHRN) Website Launched
  • L.I.F.E. Comes to New Orleans

Online News Briefs April 2010 #3
  • Follow PA on Twitter
  • 2010 HIV Directory Now Available
  • Supporting the START Study
  • Open Letter to Pharmaceutical Companies
  • Project Inform Issues Position on When to Start HIV Therapy

Online News Briefs April 2010 #2
  • CDC Announces $31.5 Million Expansion of HIV Testing Initiative
  • MTV, Kaiser Family Foundation, CDC, Planned Parenthood, and Others Launch GYT: Get Yourself Talking and Tested
  • San Francisco Endorses New Policy for Early Treatment of HIV
  • The HIV Research Catalyst Forum: Treatment, Prevention, Advocacy

Online News Briefs April 2010 #1
  • CORRECTION
  • Study Estimates Racial/Ethnic Populations of Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM)
  • Chicago’s Gay Community Mourns Activist’s Passing
  • TPAN Offers Auricular Acupuncture
  • Study on Financial Survival Seeks Participants
  • National AIDS Fund Supports HIV-Focused Social Change and
    Public Policy Improvement in the Southern U.S.

Online News Briefs March 2010 #5
  • Health Care Reform Provisions Benefit Those Living with HIV/AIDS
  • AIDSWatch
  • Medicare Expands Coverage for Treatment of Facial Lipodystrophy
  • New Study: Getting Meds that Work
  • Men Needed for HIV Vaccine Study

Online News Briefs March 2010 #4
  • Positively Aware Covers CROI, Videos Now Available
  • New Data Reveal Alarming Rates of HIV and STDs Among Gay Men in the U.S.
  • ISIS and GayCities.com Join Forces to Reverse HIV/STD Trends
  • Men 18-45 Years Old Needed for HIV Vaccine Study
  • Bananas (Yes, Bananas!) May Inhibit HIV Infection

Online News Briefs March 2010 #3
  • FDA Warning on Invirase
  • Call for Early Treatment for HIV Act to be Included in Health Care Reform
  • Cyndi Lauper, Lady Gaga Put Spotlight on Women and HIV
  • Global Health Advocates and UN Officials Meet in U.K., Urge World Leaders to Fulfill Promise of Universal Access to HIV Treatment
  • HIV Found to Hide in Bone Marrow

Online News Briefs March 2010 #2
  • HIV Stigma-Fighting Campaign Goes “Viral”
  • Information on Lexiva and Lipid Levels
  • Study Shows Nevirapine Protects Fetus, but Can Trigger Resistance in Moms
  • Educational Video Targets Youth

Online News Briefs March 2010 #1
  • New Global Coalition of Advocates To Focus on Women, Girls, and HIV
  • ONAP Announces Federal Interagency Members Developing National HIV/AIDS Strategy
  • HUD Studies Anti-gay and Gender-based Discrimination

Online News Briefs February 2010 #4
  • Campaign for Better Health Care’s “Shoe Action” Sends Powerful Message
  • Magic Johnson Testing Tour to Stop at Historically Black Colleges
  • Detachable Needles on Syringes Promote Hepatitis C Transmission
  • Is a Cure On the Way?

Online News Briefs February 2010 #3
  • ViiV Healthcare Patient Savings Card Covers GSK and Pfizer Drugs
  • FDA Approves Norvir Tablets
  • Prevention Materials for Rural Communities
  • Human Rights Campaign Reports Progress

Online News Briefs February 2010 #2
  • National AIDS Fund Creates New Campaign, Honors National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
  • The HIV Research Catalyst Forum Online Scholarship Application Now Open
  • Lambda Legal Releases Health Care Discrimination Survey Results
  • Activists Protest Prosecution of Needle Exchangers
  • Notre Dame Confronted on LGBT Rights Issues

Online News Briefs February 2010 #1
  • Scientists Solve another Puzzle about AIDS Virus
  • Obama’s Proposed 2011 Budget Includes Increases and Flat-funding
  • Congressional Democrats Signal Slow Down on Health Care Reform
  • AIDS Organizations and LGBT Community Mourn the Loss of Zelda Rubinstein
  • AIDS InfoNet Issues New Fact Sheet on HIV in Correctional Settings

Online News Briefs January 2010 #4
  • Housing Works Establishes Haitian AIDS Relief Fund
  • ADAP Waiting Lists Increase 1,000% since January 2009
  • Merck & Co Pulls HIV Drug Application After Trial Failure
  • MPC-4326 Maturation Inhibitor Trial Now Enrolling
  • Mutant HIV May Compromise Treatment Programs in Poor Countries
  • Anal Cancer Screening Recommended for HIV-Positive Men and Women

Online News Briefs January 2010 #3
  • URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED!

Online News Briefs January 2010 #2
  • Health Care Reform Bill Clears Senate, Combination with House Bill Next
  • GBT Provisions Endangered in Health Care Reform Conference
  • Phase II Trial of Gilead’s Investigational “Quad” Regimen Meets 24-Week Objective
  • Housing Works Announces Merger with AIDS Treatment Data Network
  • Iowa State Senator Vows to Block Gay Marriage Ban

Online News Briefs January 2010 #1
  • Researchers Study Potential Microbicide Ingredient
  • FDA Tentatively Approves Matrix Labs’ New Drug Application for Pediatric Efavirenz in Developing Countries
  • Program Offers Free HIV Tests, Food Vouchers
  • Judge Dismisses Petition Requiring the Use of Condoms in Porn Films
  • Project Inform and CHAMP Lead Think Tank to Develop Integrated Approach to HIV Testing, Linkage to Care and Treatment

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