Archive for October, 2009
HIV Travel and Immigration Ban Nears History
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved the
regulation to lift the HIV travel and immigration ban. Now the
regulation just needs to be approved by the White House Office of
Management and Budget (OMB). If and when OMB approves the change, this
will be the final regulatory step in a more-than decade long nightmare. Original story [...]
Posted: October 27th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Tags: CDC, HIV travel Ban
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“Somebody Has To Be The Memory”
Sean Strub, long-term AIDS survivor, was the subject of a feature in Sunday’s New York Times. Founder of POZ magazine, he mused over the last few decades, friends lost, priorities shifed. Now he’s returned to activism.
“So many contemporaries had died that, at 51, he now has friends who are mostly older [...]
Posted: October 13th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Tags: AIDS survivors, Matthew Vitemb, New York Times, POZ, Sean Strub
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Depression Greatly Impairs Treatment Adherence
From aidsmeds.com
People with depression were almost twice as likely to have HIV treatment adherence problems as people who were not depressed, according to an article in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
Depression has been found in several studies to negatively affect the ability of people living with HIV to take their medications on [...]
Posted: October 10th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Tags: AIDS and depression, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
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