Are You The Difference?

Sacramento’s largest HIV/AIDS nonprofit is rallying the region to take on a challenge that no city in America has ever attempted. CARES, the Center for AIDS Research, Education and Services, has partnered with community leaders, churches, politicians and hospitals to develop a five year campaign that will strive to eradicate all new cases of HIV in the region. The organization debuted the prevention and outreach strategies during their 20th Anniversary Gala on Thursday, June 4.

The campaign is called “Are you the difference?” and uses ambitious HIV/AIDS prevention and outreach strategies focusing on five key areas: getting people to know their HIV status; reducing new infections; ensuring sustainability of services; building a compassionate community; and improving health outcomes for people with HIV/AIDS.
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Massachusetts Senate Passes Amendment To Restore AIDS Funding

The state Senate on May 19 passed a budget amendment to restore some funding to the Department of Public Health’s (DPH) AIDS budget that had been cut in the Senate Ways and Means Committee’s original proposal for Fiscal Year 2010 (FY10). State Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz (D-Boston) filed the amendment, which brings the state’s AIDS budget up to $35.3 million. Ways and Means had originally funded DPH’s AIDS budget at $34.4 million. Read full Story here.

U of M discovery offers potential breakthrough in preventing HIV transmission

Public health officials have not had much success in preventing the spread of HIV around the world, but research at the U of M could change that. There are between two and three million new cases of HIV reported each year. Most of the infections are in sub-Saharan Africa where women represent close to 60 percent of the cases. Full Story Here!

The Life Ball HIV / AIDS Charity Event

The Life Ball is organized by AIDS LIFE, an independent non-profit organization, created with the objective to raise money to support people in areas of the world most affected by HIV and AIDS. In 2008, a record result of 1.4 million US-Dollars was raised. In 2007 an additional 1 million US-Dollars was generated at the Dinner Gala with Bill Clinton the night before Life Ball 2007. Half of the raised funds go to national relief projects and half go to international organizations in support of HIV/AIDS treatment, research and prevention.

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New Increase In HIV Infections In Uganda

Nearly two decades after Uganda managed, with meagre resources, to drastically reduce its HIV prevalence, the rate of new infections is rising again, despite significant amounts being spent on prevention.

An update on the global epidemic, published by UNAIDS in July 2008, pointed to signs in Uganda of "a possible resurgence in sexual risk-taking that could cause the epidemic to grow again." Full Story Here...