POSITIVELY AWARE 2013
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Online News Briefs May 2013 #3
- Study Finds HIV Is No Barrier to Getting a Liver Transplant
- Updates in OI Guidelines
- FDA Grants Priority Review to Simeprevir
- New Mathematical Tool Helps Identify Broadly Neutralizing HIV Antibodies
- Webinar on Navigating HIV Care
- Vermont Legislature Approves Death-with-Dignity Legislation
- HarborPath Receives $250,000 Elton John AIDS Foundation Grant
- Legislation Watch
Online News Briefs May 2013 #2
- May’s HIV Awareness Days
- IAS 2013 Conference Program Available Online
- ADAP Advocacy Association Annual Conference Announced
- FDA Approves Label Change for Sustiva
- “Pozitively Healthy” Seeks PLWHA and Advocates to Join
- More Clues Discovered About Thai Vaccine Trial
- Illinois Insurance Exchange Lacks Anticipated Company Participation
- Efforts to Stop HIV Criminalization
- Chicago City Council Passes Resolution Supporting Gay Athletes
- Legislation Watch
Online News Briefs May 2013 #1
- Pre-mature Exclamation
- USPSTF Upgrades Testing Recommendations
- AIDS Vaccine Trial Discontinued
- CytoDyn Announces Phase 2b Studies of Monoclonal Antibody PRO 140
- Rapper Supports b Condoms
- Closet Door Unhinged in Athletic Emergence
- Legislation Watch
Online News Briefs April 2013 #5
- Sustiva’s Neuropsychiatric Effects Investigated
- HAART May Protect Children’s Hearts
- HarborPath Gains Gilead, Takes Over for Welvista
- ADAPT Study to Investigate Non-Daily PrEP
- FDA Launches The FDA Patient Network Website
- TheBody.com's App for Androids and iPhones Available Now
- Hep C Treatment News from EASL
- Legislation Watch
Online News Briefs April 2013 #4
- Protein Could Prevent HIV Reservoirs From Forming
- New Discovery about Why Male Circumcision Helps Prevent HIV
- Blocking Type-1 Interferons Helps Body Clear Chronic Infection
- New Global Survey of Young Gay Men Examines Housing, Violence, and Access to
HIV Services - AIDS Advocacy Association Prepares Congressional Scorecard
- Illinois House Passes Medical Marijuana Bill
- Free “AIDS Generation” Forum Addresses Issues of Survivors
- Gay Man Arrested When Refusing to Leave Partner’s Bedside
- Legislation Watch
Online News Briefs April 2013 #3
- Tenofovir Gel Proves Safe for Rectal Use
- Hepatitis C Viral Load Fluctuations May Help Decide when to Start Therapy
- Meningitis Death Sparks Worry in West Hollywood
- First National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day April 10
- MTV and Durex Ignite Change
- California Bans Insurance Discrimination against Transgender Patients
- Thousands Rally for Medical Research Funding
- President’s Budget Maintains Commitment to HIV/AIDS Funding
- Legislation Watch
Online News Briefs April 2013 #2
- NYC AIDS Memorial Design Revealed
- Immune System Can Kill HIV When a Viral Gene Is Deactivated
- Research into HIV Antibodies a Giant Leap for Vaccine Development
- PACHA Issues Groundbreaking Transgender HIV/AIDS Resolution
- Project Inform Issues Recommendations on Use of Surveillance Data
- Student's HIV Status Outed by Campus Flyer
- Possible HIV/HCV Infections from Oklahoma Dentist’s Clinics May Lead to More
Testing - Survey Says Young Men in Mexico Willing to Stay HIV-Negative for $288 per Year
- Legislation Watch
Online News Briefs April 2013 #1
- Magic Johnson and OraQuick Launch “Make Knowing Your Thing Today” Campaign
- SCOTUS Hears Arguments on Prop 8, DOMA
- Meningitis Strikes Gay Men in New York City Again
- New Drug Application for Simeprevir Filed with FDA
- AIDS United Awards Southern REACH Grants to 31 Organizations
- BMS Cuts Ties to ALEC
- Legislation Watch
Online News Briefs March 2013 #4
- Funding for ADAP Not in Continuing Resolution
- Study Finds Test-and-Treat Strategy Could Lead to More Drug Resistant HIV Cases
- ADAP Advocacy Association Announces HIV/HCV Co-Infection Summit
- Let’s Stop HIV Together, Phase 2 – Detengamos Juntos el VIH
- Rochester NY City Schools Adopt New Condom Policy
- Republican Rob Portman Endorses Same-Sex Marriage
- Legislation Watch
Online News Briefs March 2013 #3
- Positively Aware 17th Annual Drug Guide now online
- National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is March 20
- Nanoparticles Loaded With Toxin from Bee Venom Kill HIV
- Computer Models Predict How Patients Will Respond to HIV Drugs without Costly Resistance Testing
- New Video on Drug Access from the Fair Pricing Coalition
- Current HIV Screening Guidelines Are Too Conservative
- No Increase in Risk of Death for Patients on ART with Well Controlled HIV
- The AIDS Institute Testifies Before Congress
- Logo TV and Avenue Q Puppets Tackle Disclosure
- Planned Parenthood Wins Again
- CDC Warns of “Nightmare Bacteria”
- Legislation Watch
Online News Briefs March 2013 #2
- The CROI Report
- First Documented Case of Child Cured of HIV Reported at CROI
- VOICE Study Results Point to Need for More Options, Study
- Early Antiretroviral Treatment Reduces Viral Reservoirs in HIV-Positive Teens
- HIV Risk among Black MSM in the U.S.
- Condom Efficacy
- AIDS-related Conspiracy Theories May Increase HIV Testing
- AID Atlanta Releases Sexy New Video
- Michigan State Health Department Secretly Collecting Names of HIV-Positive Residents
- Legislation Watch
Online News Briefs March 2013 #1
- National Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
- Congress Allows Sequestration Cuts to Roll Out
- Researchers Discuss Impact of HIV Testing Guideline Changes
- ViiV Joins Patent Pool
- Dr. C. Everett Koop Dies
- How to Survive a Plague to Become a Mini-Series
- HBO Version of The Normal Heart Announces Additional Cast
- Obama Administration Files Amicus Brief in Prop 8 Case
- Health Insurance Companies Urge Repeal of DOMA
- Legislation Watch
Online News Briefs February 2013 #4
- Oscar Night for How to Survive a Plague
- Discovery May Solve Efficiency Problems for HIV Gene Therapy
- FDA Grants Priority Review Designation to Dolutegravir
- Label Changes for Victrelis
- Legislation Watch
Online News Briefs February 2013 #3
- Making a Difference: The No Shame about Being HIV-Positive Project
- Pre-Existing Condition Insurance to Stop Accepting Applications
- Gender Identity Clinic for Kids to Open in Chicago
- TAG Urges Merck and Roche to Lower Cost of Interferon
- Positive Women’s Network Enters New Chapter
- Justice Department Settles Two More HIV Discrimination Suits
- Insurance Companies Exclude the Deductible in Figuring Out-of-Pocket Costs
- TPAN’s TEAM Program to Return
- Illinois Senate Passes Gay Marriage Bill
- Legislation Watch
Online News Briefs February 2013 #2
- Injection-Free Vaccination Technique Could Solve Global HIV Vaccine Challenge
- Annual CD4 T-Cell Monitoring May Be Enough
- PACHA Passes Resolution Decriminalizing HIV
- Bad Pharma and Clinical Trial Transparency
- Kaletra Label Change Lists New Drug Interactions
- ViiV Drops Lersivirine
- UC San Diego Funded by NIMH to Study Successful Aging in Adults with HIV
- Duane Cramer Joins Mondo Guerra and Merck on I Design Campaign
- Legislation Watch
Online News Briefs February 2013 #1
- National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is February 7
- MAPS Addresses Barriers to HIV Drug Adherence
- Device Uses the Cloud to Speed Up Testing for HIV
- “Neurosteroid” Found to Prevent Neurocognitive Impairment Caused by HIV/AIDS
- 2013 United States Conference on AIDS Calls for Abstracts
- Registration for 2013 USCA Now Open
- 2013 USCA Now Accepting Scholarship Applications
- Justice Department Settles with Fayetteville Pain Center in HIV Discrimination Suit
- Louisiana to Cut Medicaid Programs for HIV-Positive Residents
- Kansas Ends Free HIV Testing in Most Counties
- Legislation Watch
Online News Briefs January 2013 #5
- ViiV Healthcare Announces Updates to Patient Savings Card Program
- Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV in First Four Months Is Crucial
- Cells' DNA Repair Machinery Can Destroy Viruses
- Thinner Syringes May Reduce Risk of HIV
- Stopping Smoking Reduces Risk of Bacterial Pneumonia
- TAF Enters Phase 3 Clinical Trials
- FDA Approves Changes to Complera Label
- Legislation Watch
Online News Briefs January 2013 #4
- Generic HIV Treatment Strategy Could Save Nearly $1 Billion Annually but May Be Less Effective
- New Insights into HIV Vaccine
- Possible HIV Exposure at Buffalo VA hospital
- “Advocating for Low-Income Clients in the New Healthcare Environment” Training Set
- NASTAD Releases 2013 National ADAP Monitoring Project Report
- Times Square Tweets for AIDS Awareness
- Legislation Watch
Online News Briefs January 2013 #3
- How To Survive a Plague Tapped for Best Documentary Oscar
- PFLAG Founder Dies at 92
- FDA Grants Accelerated Approval for new TB Drug Sirturo
- Label Update for Incivek
- Pentagon to Make Amends
- Get “Centered” at TPAN
- Washington National Cathedral to Perform Same-Sex Marriages
- Ban on Blood Donations from Gay Men Lifted in Mexico
- Legislation Watch
Online News Briefs January 2013 #2
- Therapeutic HIV Vaccine Offers Hope
- Fulyzaq Approved for ART-Related Diarrhea
- Webinar Friday!
- Stem Cell Technology Could Help Patients' Own Immune Cells Fight HIV
- TPAN Gets HOTTER
- Berry Blogs Again
- Legislation Watch
Online News Briefs January 2013 #1
- Take NMAC’s National Survey of Black Gay and Bisexual Men
- CDC Releases Latest Surveillance Report
- AIDS Foundation of Chicago Responds to CDC Data
- HIV Patients in Care Lose More Years of Life to Smoking than to HIV
- Rectal Microbicide Organizations Release Educational Video
- Hepatitis C Virus Found to Reprogram Human Liver Cells
- Maraviroc Shown to Treat Staph Infections
- 151 Patient Groups Send Letter to HHS Secretary on Proposed Essential
- Health Benefits
- Legislation Watch
