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• Discuss: What is an acceptable HIV testing policy for foreign nationals?

  
  Monster Island (actually a peninsula)* — Authority: 487
  The requirements that E2 visaholders be subject to one-time or annual HIV tests has been a great source of controversy this year. Anti-English Spectrum pushing for this has made the policy seem rooted in xenophobia, even though public health officials in South Korea have pushed for such regulations even before AES ...
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• AHF Commends Medicare Move To Cover HIV Tests; Urges Medicaid To Quickly Follow Suit

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 142
  AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization, lauded the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), for its decision earlier today to cover HIV testing for Medicare beneficiaries who may be at increased risk for HIV exposure (MSM, IDU) as well as women who are pregnant, and beneficiaries of any ...
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• Medicare To Pay For HIV Testing

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 142
  Reuters: “Americans enrolled in the U.S. government-run Medicare health insurance program will now be covered for tests that screen for HIV, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which oversees the program for the elderly and disabled, said on Tuesday… Source: Medicare To Pay For HIV Testing
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• Testing America’s common sense

  
  The Wisdom of Whores — Authority: 111
  Finally, some common sense in HIV testing policy in the US. Although you’d be hard pressed to know it from some of the coverage. Until last Monday, America’s unfathomably illogical health service for the properly poor, Medicaid, refused to pay for HIV testing just as it refuses to pay for all sorts of other ...
  2 weeks ago

• New York Times Examines HIV Testing Program In China

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 142
  New York Times Examines HIV Testing Program In ChinaThe New York Times examines an HIV prevention program in China aimed at promoting blood screening that has led “more than 110,000 people” to be tested so far: “On any given night, in 14 cities around the country, hundreds of people flock to makeshift blood ...
  3 weeks ago

• Phase I Study Of Preventive HIV Vaccine Shows Improved Immune Responses When The Vaccine Is Delivered By Electrical Impulses

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 142
  A Phase 1 study of a preventive HIV vaccine testing a novel delivery mechanism known as electroporation – the use of electrical pulses to increase the immune responses elicited by DNA vaccines – was recently completed in New York City. The results show that TriGrid™, a technology developed by Ichor Medical ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Dangerous Precedent: Using Anti-Terrorism Laws to Prosecute HIV Transmission

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 688
  This article is authored by Ellen Roelofs, Vanessa Johnson, Brook Kelly, and Naina Khanna, all of the Positive Womens Network.  It is part of a series on global AIDS issues to be published by RH Reality Check throughout December 2009.  Other articles in the series can be found by searching "global AIDS 2009" on RH ...
  4 weeks ago

• World AIDS day reminds us of scientific advances in fight against HIV/AIDS but the battle is far from over

  
  Senses: A blog about the Thirdi Software perception — Authority: 128
  Today is World AIDS Day and although the disease remains currently incurable, the advancements in medical technology that prolong life and mitigate the effects of the sexually transmitted auto-immune virus  are impressive. We’ve come from a point where 25 years ago patients would be dying within months to a year of ...
  4 weeks ago

• World AIDS Day

  
  Home & living - home-living.marc8.com — Authority: 137
  World AIDS Day--observed on December 1--provides an opportunity to educate people about HIV, reduce the stigma associated with it, and promote HIV testing. Visit AIDS.gov for more information.
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• World AIDS Day: Keep the promise, get tested

  
  PIC Current — Authority: 121
  Courtesy of Sully Pixel (via Flickr) On World AIDS Day we are reminded that there has been incredible progress in the fight against AIDS. But we still have a ways to go. Especially when over 56,000 Americans are newly infected with HIV each year and an estimated 21 percent of HIV-positive people don’t actually ...
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• How to Observe World AIDS Day

  
  The Blogs at HowStuffWorks — Authority: 442
  Its World AIDS Day. (Chad Baker/Digital Vision/Getty Images) It’s Dec. 1, and that means it’s World AIDS Day . Celebrated every year since 1988, when it was established by the World Health Organization, World AIDS Day is an opportunity to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS. According to the Centers for Disease ...
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• Condoms for Big and Small Men

  
  Twanna A. Hines @ FUNKYBROWNCHICK.com | sex. dating. relationships. — Authority: 117
  If I’m going to have sex with a guy, I’ll ask him to slip a balloon on his dick. I use condoms. Almost always. It’s not the men, it’s me. I don’t want a baby. Or AIDS. Or crabs. Or random green shit oozing out my hooha. Once we’ve been together exclusively for a while, we’ll talk about going raw. Until ...
  4 weeks ago

• AIDS Prevention, Timely Detection and Management

  
  Testing It Up Drug & Health Testing News Test Country Blog — Authority: 137
  December 1, 2009 is World AIDS Day, and countries all over the world take time out to remember those who have succumbed to this disease and to look into what has been and is being done and what else should be done towards the prevention, timely detection and management of the disease. HIV/AIDS has infected more ...
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• Testing for HIV is a must

  
  The Temple News — Authority: 439
  With free HIV testing now available, not getting tested should not be an option.
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• Free HIV testing this week

  
  Health Matters — Authority: 122
  In conjunction with World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, a Washington University School of Medicine clinic will offer free, confidential HIV testing from Monday, Nov. 30, through Thursday, Dec. 3. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. No appointment is necessary. The…
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• be safe, play safe

  
  blankanvas — Authority: 538
  Pat, we’d need you to do a swab. There is a possibility that you may have contacted Chlamydia , given your sexual history. I don’t typically write anything this personal on blankanvas, but because I do care for my younger readers, I will make an exception this time. I was all but a tender eighteen years ...
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• HIV Rates Decreasing Globally

  
  Testing It Up Drug & Health Testing News Test Country Blog — Authority: 137
  There is good news to be shared as far as HIV/AIDS is concerned; Reports indicate that the rates for infection with HIV are decreasing. This change is reportedly the fruit of more powerful drugs as well as an increase in access to AIDS-centered care and health care facilities which has brought about a reduction in new ...
  4 weeks ago

• Clinic | Reproductive Choices | Midrand

  
  Search Engine South Africa — Authority: 457
  Reproductive Choices consists of a team of trained, dedicated staff who will inform and help you make decisions about certain reproductive choices. They work on an appointment basis only, and provide a personal, confidential and private service. Reproductive Choices aim to be the leaders in the field of ...
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• Also In Global Health News: Home HIV Treatment; Voluntary Testing In Kenya; Women/HIV Scorecard; Global Fund Zimbabwe Grant; Contraceptives In Tanzani

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 142
  Home Vs. Clinic Treatment of HIV In Uganda The New York Times reports on a Lancet study that found treating Ugandan HIV patients at home is cheaper and just as effective as treating them in a clinic. Source: Also In Global Health News: Home HIV Treatment; Voluntary Testing In Kenya; Women/HIV Scorecard; Global ...
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• Manufacturer Attends Meeting on Over-the-Counter HIV Testing

  
  Testing It Up Drug & Health Testing News Test Country Blog — Authority: 137
  Because of the rather sensitive circumstances that may lead towards being infected by the HIV virus, some people may find the ability to perform an HIV test in the comfort and privacy of their home the more preferable way. Luckily, there are such home test kits that are already available in the market nowadays. ...
  5 weeks ago

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