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Weekly News Round-Up, Snow-Free EditionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A new edition of the Carnival of Feminists is up at Zero at the Bone – thanks to the host for including a couple of OBOS posts! Last week, NPR ran a piece on new book, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” which I heard and posted about. I really should have one ahead and put a hold on it at my public library at the time; I waited until yesterday to do it and am now #39 in line for the book. Renee at Womanist Musings asks “Do Black Women’s Reproductive Rights Even Matter?” with regard to the lack of feminist response to racially targeted anti-abortion campaigns such as one in Atlanta that call...
Source: Women's Health News - February 7, 2010 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abortion Access, Rights, & Choice Advertising/Marketing Ethics Events & Observances Global Issues Government HIV/AIDS Help Somebody Miscellaneous News Round-Ups Pregnancy Women's Health woc OBOS Our Bodies Ourselves c-secti Source Type: blogs

HIV/AIDS and STD InformationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It’s Your Life Live It Safe: HIV/AIDS in the Native American Community http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK45HHiOCQk Local youth in San Diego discuss the importance of HIV/AIDS prevention and education in Native American communities.[American Library Association Listserv] National Training Center for Integrated Hepatitis HIV/STD Prevention Services http://www.knowhepatitis.org/ The National Training Center provides training to frontline workers in community based organizations and clinics on hepatitis prevention, diagnosis, management, treatment and integration. Hepatitis, STDs and HIV are preventable diseases. [aapcho-pa...
Source: BHIC - February 5, 2010 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: siobhan Tags: Articles HIV/AIDS Source Type: blogs

The Real Hags of CabbagetownEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
First there was The Real Housewives of Orange Country, then there was The Real Housewives of New Jersey……Now finally a Canadian spin off….. The Real Hags of Cabbagetown. (Source: acidrefluxweb.com)
Source: acidrefluxweb.com - February 5, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Finch Tags: Acid Reflux Reality Show most recent acidrefluxweb.com aids Cabbagetown gay GayGuideToronto.com GGT GGT 2.0 GLBT hags HIV lgbt Positive Lite Positivelite.com telelvision The Real Housewives trans tv Source Type: blogs

carmen logie, pubmed.gov: canadian AIDS Care study confirms HIV/AIDS stigma’s negative impact on health & quality of life in HIVers (2089)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined the relationships between HIV-related stigma and a range of demographic, social, physical and health characteristics. A meta-analysis was conducted to assess the overall strength and direction of these relationships. Twenty-four studies of PLHIV, conducted in North America and published in peer-reviewed journals between January of 2000 and November of 2007, were examined and their findings integrated. The heterogeneity of reported results was also assessed and examined. Our review revealed substantial variability in the ways researchers measure participants’ HIV-related stigma as well as their phy...
Source: aids-write.org - February 4, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu aids.org americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm ga Source Type: blogs

Risk JunkieEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Man oh man things have gotten hectic busy. I can only think of a few time-limited periods of time where I’ve had so much to do. Don’t get me wrong, it’s all good. As grammatically incorrect that is, at least according to my spell check. I mark my tenth year on disability and it’s been a bumpy ride. I’ve fastened my seat belt and I’m getting ready for an entirely new one. In the past I strived to find the edge of whatever situation that could be risky. That led to doing all sorts of crazy stuff, such as my hooker with a passport days traipsing across the US, and Europe partying, and well, making enough materia...
Source: acidrefluxweb.com - February 4, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Finch Tags: Acid Reflux Reality Show Recovery most recent acidrefluxweb.com aids depression gay GayGuideToronto.com GGT GGT 2.0 GLBT HIV junkie lgbt Positive Lite Positivelite.com risk Source Type: blogs

National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness DayEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
, February 7th of every year, is a national HIV testing and treatment community mobilization initiative targeted at Blacks in the United States and the Diaspora. There are four specific focal points: education, testing, involvement, and treatment. http://www.blackaidsday.org/nbhaad.html National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day http://www.aids.gov/awareness-days/ National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Partners website http://www.blackaidsday.org Reaching the Right People with the Right Tools for National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day http://tinyurl.com/yhokrf9 HIV/AIDS Health Information from the National Library of Medicine h...
Source: BHIC - February 3, 2010 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: siobhan Tags: HIV/AIDS Minority Health Concerns National Library of Medicine News Public Health Websites Source Type: blogs

mohammad rajja, blitz (bangladesh): social determinants of health (2088)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Social determinants of the health by Mohammad Rajja February 3, 2010 chers— the discussion that follows concerns the social factors (determinants) driving poor health — poverty, malnutrition, gender and more. it’s a bit of a wrestling match with english, but all the more interesting because of that. think of it as a bit of a tone poem. and rajja’s english is way better than my bangladeshi. namaste —rk There are more than a few social determinants of the health of populations in the [bangladesh] region. These encompass eight major ones discuss[ed] below. Other connected factors include stress, ...
Source: aids-write.org - February 3, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: LA city AIDS coordinator's office aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ citizen journalism criminalization of HIV/AIDS Source Type: blogs

enrique rivero, UCLA newsroom: new research model predicts emergence of drug-resistant HIV/AIDS strains (2087)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Study predicts HIV drug resistance will surge By Enrique Rivero January 22, 2010 chers— there are several useful lilnks at the end of this post. namaste —rk New research based on a novel mathematical model predicts that a wave of drug-resistant HIV strains will emerge in San Francisco within the next five years. These strains could prove disastrous by hindering control of the HIV pandemic. In a study published Jan. 14 on the website of the journal Science, researchers from the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and the University of California, San Francisco’s HIV AIDS Program at...
Source: aids-write.org - February 3, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women w Source Type: blogs

john hoeffel, latimes: LA city council votes 9-3 to pass “strict” medical cannabis ordinance (2086)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Los Angeles City Council approves medical marijuana ordinance that will shut down hundreds of dispensaries By John Hoeffel January 26, 2010 In a 9-3 vote, the Los Angeles City Council today gave its final approval to an ordinance that will shut down hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries and impose strict rules on the location and operation of the dispensaries that are allowed. The measure passed quickly, without debate. The ordinance, which the council first began discussing more than 4 1/2 years ago, will cap the number of dispensaries at 70 but make an exception to allow all those that registered with the city in 20...
Source: aids-write.org - February 3, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ citizen jou Source Type: blogs

frank stoltze, KPCC (89.3): LA city council members discuss pot experiences in past (2085)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Medical cannabis advocate and rastafarian minister Ali Rashi offering public comment at a december Los Angeles City Council meeting about safe access and distribution. a great photo by Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Image captures some of the feel of the debate —rk LA City Council members talk about their marijuana use by Frank Stoltze Jan. 26, 2010 The Los Angeles City Council Tuesday [approved] a new ordinance that would shut down most medical marijuana dispensaries in the city. It would place a cap of 70, with up to about 140 pot shops grandfathered in. KPCC surveyed councilmembers about whether they’d ever smoked pot...
Source: aids-write.org - February 3, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ citizen journalism crimin Source Type: blogs

A major breakthrough in the still-mysterious (to me) web of HIV/AIDS researchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I didn’t have the radio or television on Monday so I nearly missed this – what, to this layman anyway, has remained such a mystery since the early, crudest diagrams of the virus first appeared. I am still doing okay on protease inhibitors Prezista (and one of the originals Norvir) and a nucleoside (yes it’s a [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - February 2, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: AIDS and HIV Planet Earth has AIDS autobiography integrase Source Type: blogs

This looks to be a major breakthrough in the still-sometimes-mysterious web of HIV/AIDS researchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: My journey with AIDS - February 2, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: AIDS and HIV Planet Earth has AIDS health-care Source Type: blogs

Lecture: Survivor Health Wisdom: Strive To Thrive While Growing Older With HIVEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Nelson Vergel's HIV Blog - February 2, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Tags: lipodystrophy lipoatrophy HIV fatigue HIV aging HIV bone AIDS HIV body Source Type: blogs

XMRV infection is enhanced by prostatic protein fragmentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Fragments of an abundant protein produced by the prostate form amyloid fibrils that enhance infection of cells by human immunodeficiency virus type 1. These fibrils, called semen-derived enhancer of virus infection (SEVI), have been found to boost infection of prostate cells by the retrovirus XMRV. Is this evidence that XMRV causes prostate cancer? Because most HIV-1 infections are a consequence of genital exposure to semen of virus-infected men, seminal fluid was screened for peptides or proteins that enhance viral infectivity. Peptides (34 – 40 amino acids in length) derived from prostatic acidic phosphates, a comm...
Source: virology blog - January 28, 2010 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Information AIDS amyloid HIV prostate cancer semen sevi surfen viral virology virus xmrv Source Type: blogs

Better Oral SexEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Oral Sex and Sexually Transmitted Infections Many people in recovery from alcoholism, addiction, gambling and co-dependency may be exploring their sexuality from a new perspective. Safer and more enjoyable oral sex can be an exciting experience. Compared to sex, oral sex is considered a lower-risk sexual activity. There is zero risk of unwanted pregnancy and a lower chance of passing along a sexually transmitted disease. However, “lower risk” does not mean “no risk” – there is no such thing as 100 percent safe sex, and oral sex is no exception. Not just cold sores. People may tend to think of embarrassing cold so...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - January 28, 2010 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Emotions Fun Healthy Men Recovery Relationships Sexuality Sobriety Women AIDS condom HIV oral sex Source Type: blogs

Safely out of the foxhole – againEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Y’know that expression, however annoying it can be to hear sometimes (for me at least), about there being no atheists in foxholes? There’s something about being ill – be it AIDS-related or just a near-pneumonia cold such as I’ve experienced since December 28 – that, while not pulling me back into an old belief system completely, [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - January 26, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: AIDS and HIV medical update mental health personal journal spirituality Source Type: blogs

weclome blogging students of University of South FloridaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Today I am welcoming the students of the University of South Florida’s online HIV/AIDS course. This post is a welcome, and a little explanation of Acid Reflux. If you click on the menu, “The Cast: Me” there is a short explanation of where I’m coming from. Basically name Acid Reflux originated the vision of Dame Edna during her off-broadway show where she sits down at a table with a couple of people from an audience. She had previously ordered in some food for them, and now they were up on the stage eating their dinners. Dame Edna sits down and starts getting an attack of acid reflux and grabs the na...
Source: acidrefluxweb.com - January 26, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Finch Tags: Acid Reflux Reality Show Ramblings most recent acidrefluxweb.com aids education gay GayGuideToronto.com GGT GGT 2.0 GLBT HIV lgbt Positive Lite Positivelite.com University of South Florida Source Type: blogs

AIDS Group Bans Merck Sales Reps Over PricingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which run free AIDS clinics in various countries, including more than a dozen in the US, took the step over what it calls Merck’s “unwarranted pricing” for Isentress. At nearly $13,000 per patient a year, the AIDS med is believed to be the most expensive first line AIDS therapy on the US market today, according to AHF. Isentress was originally approved in 2007 as a salvage therapy for patients who are resistant to other AIDS drugs. Initially, Merck set the average wholesale price at $12,150 per patient, but since raised the AWP to $12,868, a 5 percent increase, according to...
Source: Pharmalot - January 26, 2010 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized AIDS Healthcare Foundation Isentress Merck Michael Weinstein Source Type: blogs

Pen PalsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I’m always hesitant to take on new volunteer activities, as sitting on a couple boards, plus the managing and writing for several websites, I’m feeling pretty busy. Today, though, I received an email from a collaborator of a previous project about blogging as an HIV positive person about an online course where the students are required to create blogs and write about HIV, as part of an HIV/AIDS education program at the University of Central Florida. Our job is to interact with the students, leave comments on the blogs, and chat with them through various structures set up. Lord please help the poor student from across t...
Source: acidrefluxweb.com - January 25, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Finch Tags: Acid Reflux Reality Show Ramblings most recent acidrefluxweb.com aids AIDS Education gay GayGuideToronto.com GGT GGT 2.0 GLBT HIV lgbt pen pals Positive Lite Positivelite.com Source Type: blogs

A lament for HaitiEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It’s about so much more than re-building, regardless of whatever building codes might be enforced or unseemly ‘Shock Doctrine’ proposed. Those poor (literally) children. Thousands now orphaned in a country where too many already were. (How well, if not fondly, I remember the days when AIDS was first seen in ‘homosexuals, intravenous drug users [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - January 24, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: AIDS and HIV PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) childhood trauma mental health Haiti earthquake relief shock doctrine Source Type: blogs

TWiV 67: Wasting deer and the Hulk rabbitEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Marc Pelletier Vincent, Alan, and Marc talk about chronic wasting disease of deer caused by prions, blocking the semen-derived enhancer of HIV infection with surfen, and making green transgenic rabbits using a lentiviral vector. This episode is sponsored by Data Robotics Inc. Use the promotion code VINCENT to receive $50 off a Drobo or $100 off a Drobo S. Download TWiV #67 (64 MB .mp3, 88 minutes) Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, or by email. Links for this episode: Chronic wasting disease in West Virginia Chronic wasting disease allia...
Source: virology blog - January 24, 2010 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology AIDS chronic wasting disease deer GFP green fluorescent protein HIV podcast prion rabbit semen sevi surfen transgenic transmissible spongiform encephalopathy TWiV viral virus Source Type: blogs

jenny pizer, lgbt pov: videocasting the prop 8 trial (2084)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Cut! Why did the Supreme Court ban videocasting of the Olson-Boies marriage trial? By Jenny Pizer, Marriage Project Director, Lambda Legal(on (left, pictured here with her wife Doreena Wong) January 14, 2010 Following the emergency appeal filed by the Prop 8 team, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled 5-4 that the federal marriage trial may not be videocast for public viewing at other federal courthouses. The earlier plan to upload trial video to the court’s website already had been nixed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ Chief Judge Kozinksi, who decided there are technical problems to be worked out before...
Source: aids-write.org - January 22, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids barak obama beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with a Source Type: blogs

Experimental Drug Update: Multiple Sclerosis, HIV, C. DifficileEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Here’s a quick roundup of some news on experimental drugs: Two pills for multiple sclerosis fared well in clinical trials published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. One, Novartis’s fingolimod, was tested against a placebo and against Avonex, a form of interferon sold by Biogen Idec. The other, Merck KGaA’s cladribine, was tested against a placebo. (The main findings of the studies had previously been reported.) Current drugs for MS are given via injection or infusion, so the convenience of oral drugs would be an improvement for patients. But, as the WSJ notes, the studies of fingolimod a...
Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog - January 21, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jacob Goldstein Tags: AIDS Biotech Drugs Infectious disease Mulitple Sclerosis Source Type: blogs

Eligibility Info: Temporary Protected Status for Haitians Living in the USEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
NOTE (1:38pm, January 19, 2010): We’re posting the following information about temporary protected status for Haitians living in the US to inform qualifying individuals of their current options for staying in or leaving the country. We will post updates, including contact information for additional resources, as they become available. Meanwhile, we encourage people to continue supporting Haiti relief, particularly through Boston-based Partners in Health, a widely respected organization with one of the strongest records fighting HIV/AIDS in Haiti. TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS—Haitian nationals who were physically p...
Source: AIDS Action Committee's Blog - January 19, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Dustin Kight Tags: Uncategorized advocacy policy global AIDS immigration Source Type: blogs

Preparing for the Fourth Decade of AIDSEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
AIDS is here to stay. At least for now…. It didn’t seem that way during the 1980s. As we learned more about HIV and its manifestations, the predominantly male and intervention-driven scientific world organized itself to find a solution within a decade or two. After all, the war against smallpox, polio and other infectious diseases had been won with medicines, vaccines and public health efforts. Well, here we are, way into the third decade, and despite the achievements, the pandemic continuous to grow. What lessons can we draw from the cumulative knowledge, organizational responses and manifestations of solidarity? ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - January 18, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Chronic Conditions Global Health AIDS Conditions and Diseases health care HIV infectious disease Kaposi's sarcoma The Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria Source Type: blogs

TWiV 66: Reverse transcriptionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Vincent and Dickson continue virology 101 with a discussion of information flow from RNA to DNA, a process known as reverse transcription, which occurs in cells infected with retroviruses, hepatitis B virus, cauliflower mosaic virus, foamy viruses, and even in uninfected cells. This episode is sponsored by Data Robotics Inc. To receive $50 off a Drobo or $100 off a Drobo S, visit drobostore.com and use the promotion code VINCENT. Download TWiV #66 (50 MB .mp3, 68 minutes) Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, or by email. Links for th...
Source: virology blog - January 18, 2010 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology AIDS caulimovirus foamy virus HBV hepatitis b virus HIV retroelement retrovirus reverse transcriptase reverse transcription rna tumor virus TWiV viral Source Type: blogs

The YMCAEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Getting the YMCA is always a struggle for me. Once I’m out the door and committed to it, I find it not so bad. Then the little surprises happen that make me even happier that I’ve gone. First off the bat, I see the one guy who’ve I’ve ever successfully cruised and met at the Y. He is so my type (and I have many) – short, shaved head, very tight muscular body, and an ass of a dancer.” I see him and walk over, he’s completely naked slapping on his moisturizer. Good thing I was dressed, cause he’s one of the few people I feel like this animal instinct taking over of just wanting to start going at it in the mid...
Source: acidrefluxweb.com - January 12, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Finch Tags: Acid Reflux Reality Show Ramblings Recovery most recent acidrefluxweb.com aids Coffee dates GayGuideToronto.com GGT GGT 2.0 GLBT HIV lgbt Positive Lite Positivelite.com Source Type: blogs

AIDS Group Plans To Protest Merck PresentationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation plans to create a little distraction at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco this morning, where Merck execs will discuss their recent moves and strategy. The conference, of course, is the premier industry showcase where pharma and biotech companies get a chance to tout their pipelines and plans to analysts, fund managers and other investors. The reason for the protest is the “steep” price of Merck’s Isentress HIV/AIDS med, which last summer was approved as a first-line treatment for the disease. AHF says there is no justification for charging $12,868 retail ...
Source: Pharmalot - January 12, 2010 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized AIDS AIDS Healthcare Foundation HIV Isentress JP Morgan Healthcare Conference Merck Source Type: blogs

video post: kearns to LA city council announcing elder HIV/AIDS summit & new media training feb 12 (2083)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
chers— if this works, share my joy of this unhistoric moment of major insignificance, la la la namaste —rk after the jump [december 15, 2009] good morning president garcetti, distinguished council members. i have given the clerk copies of my prepared remarks. my name is richard kearns. i am a 58-year-old gay man living with AIDS in los angeles for more than 20 years, an angelino poet advocate. i am delighted to announce to you this morning that on friday, february 12th, 2010, upstairs in the tom bradley conference center, on the 27th floor, we will hold, the LA city grassroots elder HIV/AIDS advocacy summit &a...
Source: aids-write.org - January 11, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: 2010 hiv/aids summit & training 2-2010 HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS ahf aids.org americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids awo call to action b Source Type: blogs

terry le grande, LA talkradio today (1-10-10): don duncan, richard eastman & scott imler (2082)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
chers— terry has just migrated to LA TalkRadio (channel 1), and his premiere show tonight features medical cannabis adevocates don duncan, scott imler and richard eastman. i’m not quite sure what next week’s topic will be. but i’ll be there on January 31st, talking about HIV/AIDS & aging and the upcoming summit/training february 12. Listen live @ http://www.latalkradio.com/Terry.php. namasté —rk Jan 10- This week’s topic is Medical Marijuana in Los Angeles. Guests include Don Duncan, from ASA (Americans for Safe Access), Rev. Scott Imler, the first person to open a collective in the LA area, an...
Source: aids-write.org - January 10, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ citizen jou Source Type: blogs

TWiV 64: Ten virology stories of 2009Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan, and Rich discuss ten compelling virology stories of 2009. Download TWiV #64 (68 MB .mp3, 94 minutes) Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, or by email. Ten virology stories of 2009: Pandemic influenza: Swine-origin H1N1 virus (TWiV 36) XMRV, prostate cancer, and chronic fatigue syndrome (TWiV 50, 55) AIDS vaccine ’success’ (TWiV 51) Colony collapse disorder (TWiV 46, 49) AIDS-like disease in wild chimps (TWiV 45) Diverse viral community in Antarctic lake (TWiV 58) Polyomavirus seroepidemiology in hum...
Source: virology blog - January 3, 2010 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology AIDS antarctic virus CFS colony collapse Dengue H1N1 HIV honeybee influenza mosquito polio poliomyelitis polyomavirus poxvirus prostate cancer squirrel swine flu TWiV viral xmrv Source Type: blogs

Weekly News Round-Up, 1/3Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A fairly short edition for the last day of my vacation…sigh. At Your Cervix asks why some women giving birth “are complacent and let ‘us’ do whatever we feel is best” in Apathy vs Making Waves. If you have a New Year’s resolution to quit smoking, the American Cancer Society has some tips to help you. Montana just became the 3rd state to allow physician-assisted suicide. Pam’s House Blend has a list of Top 10 LGBT Stories of 2009. Penny Red has a new installment of the Carnival of Feminists. The FDA announced the Medication Exposure in Pregnancy Risk Evaluation Program to study...
Source: Women's Health News - January 3, 2010 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Birth Boobs Drugs HIV/AIDS Libraryland Pregnancy LGBT Source Type: blogs

kearns: save the date (feb 12, 2010) for LA city grassroots elder HIV/AIDS advocacy summit & new media training (2081)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
text of flyer after jump SAVE THE DATE! LA City Grassroots Elder HIV/AIDS Advocacy SUMMIT & new media TRAINING February 12, 2010 Tom Bradley Center (26th & 27th floors) LA City Hall 200 N. Spring Street Los Angeles, CA 90012 hosted by - LA 11th district City Councilmember Bill Rosendahl - the City of LA AIDS Coordinator’s Office - richard kearns publisher of http://AIDS-write.org & http://havvacc.wordpress.com [seal of city of los angeles ) FOR MORE INFORMATION: contact rk@aids-write.org or call 310-488-1328 “new tricks for old dogs & their allies” (Source: aids-write.org)
Source: aids-write.org - January 2, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS ahf aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu aids.org americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids awo call to action b Source Type: blogs

maeve maddox, dailywritingtips: global language monitor’s ten most often used words of 2009 (2080)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Step into the GLM Time Machine by Maeve Maddox january 1, 2010 The Global Language Monitor (GLM) is an Austin, Texas-based entity that documents, analyzes and tracks trends in language and publishes a list of the year’s most used English words, names, and phrases. According to GLM’s algorithm, 2009’s most used word, both online and in print, is Twitter. GLM’s top ten for 2009: Twitter Obama H1N1 stimulus vampire 2.0 (as a suffix attached to the next generation of everything. Ex. Web2.0) deficit Hadron healthcare transparency A look at the Words of the Year for 2000-2008 recalls the prominent events and personali...
Source: aids-write.org - January 1, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women w Source Type: blogs

black AIDS institute’s LA CitySheet pdf: links for fighting HIV/AIDS in the community (2079)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
2009 AIDS IN BLACK AMERICA City Sheet Los Angeles, California chers— this is a comprehensive resource list. print out all four pages and stick it on the frig. add phone numbers and email addresses on your contact lists, both phone and internet. use them. local & state stuff. links to officials after the jump. namasté —rk The CitySheet Series This CitySheet is a resource intended to provide Black community stakeholders that want to get involved in stopping the disease with AIDS information and potential partners. These numbers represent real people in your community who are impacted by HIV and AIDS. These...
Source: aids-write.org - January 1, 2010 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office aging and HIV/AIDS ahf aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids black AIDS institute black msm gay hiv/aids Source Type: blogs

AIDS Testing from the DentistEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Want to go above and beyond in the new year? You already screen for gum disease, oral cancer, and TMJ disorder. You might even discuss nutrition, smoking cessation, and sleep apnea with your patients. Now you can add AIDS testing to your comprehensive exam. For $15 per patient, OraQuick Advance kits show results in 20 minutes. Simply swab the upper and lower gums, and wait for results. OraQuick’s saliva test was approved in 2004, and in fact, DentalBlogs has posted about the system in the past. It seems there’s a recent reemergence of popularity, possibly because of all the news about dental health’s relation to over...
Source: dental blog for dentists about dentistry - December 29, 2009 Category: Dentists Authors: Administrator Tags: Clinical AIDS and dentist AIDS screening AIDS test checkup denitstry news dental dentistry health care healthcare HIV test oraquick orasure preventive dentistry saliva test Source Type: blogs

I Am But One LightEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU ALL! Last night I went to a Candlelight Service at church (I will talk about my new church in a bit) and had one of the most beautiful and touching experiences of my life. The Chicago Children's Choir was singing Stille Nacht (Silent Night), when they got through the first verse ushers moved through the aisles and lit congregants candles. As this process was going on lights in the church went out until the only light was that of our candles. It was during this time that I completely stopped and let myself be taken by the stillness and was at absolute peace. For me symbolically all ...
Source: Still arriving. - December 26, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Tags: Facebook HIV/AIDS Foundation for AIDS Research Source Type: blogs

sunnie rose: next POZ life weekend seminar jan 23rd and 24th (2078)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Sunnie Rose says: January POZ Weekend Seminar - Jan 23rd and 24th! Reservation Page is now open! The Next POZ Life Seminar is Jan. 23 and 24 in the West Hollywood area. Download the PDF Flyer Registering for the POZ Life Weekend Seminar can be easy! You can either drop us a note at registration@thelifegroupla.org or call us TOLL FREE at (888) 208-8081 and we will contact you, or you can simply follow this link to the registration form. (Source: aids-write.org)
Source: aids-write.org - December 22, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids Source Type: blogs

happy raven’s night & winter solstice 2009 (2077)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
commemorating the first long night that ended when raven stole the sun & moon & stars & put them in the sky (Source: aids-write.org)
Source: aids-write.org - December 22, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids ces (coalition for Source Type: blogs

Weekly News Round-Up, 12/20Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Assorted things I’ve been reading this week: Via NPR, Ban Lifted On Federal Funding For Needle Exchange. Applications are open to be a Spring semester site for the Great American Condom Campaign. Applications close January 3rd. I would love it if somebody near me got a site and wanted to talk about it! At the New York Times on health reform, Negotiating to 60 Votes, Compromise by Compromise. Planned Parenthood issued a statement opposing the Nelson amendment and says, “it is a sad day when women’s health is traded away for one vote.” A presentation last year on Vanderbilt’s PEPFAR work in A...
Source: Women's Health News - December 20, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abortion Access, Rights, & Choice Birth Global Issues Government HIV/AIDS Health Midwifery News Round-Ups Sex & Sex Education condoms health care reform needle exchange prenatal care vbac Source Type: blogs

Viruses and journalism: Poliovirus, HIV, and spermEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In the summer of 1989, two papers about viruses were published in high-profile journals. One described the engineering of a recombinant poliovirus bearing on its surface an antigen from HIV-1. The second paper claimed that transgenic mice could be made by adding DNA to sperm before using them to fertilize eggs. Both reports played a role in a television interview I did with Earl Ubell of CBS News. I was reading the Cell paper describing a new way to make transgenic mice when I received a call from CBS News. They wanted me to comment on a report that had just been released by the journal Nature, describing the production of...
Source: virology blog - December 18, 2009 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Commentary Information AIDS HIV journalism poliovirus sperm transgenic mice viral virology Source Type: blogs

Franchising Child and Family WellnessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The following guest post by Dr. Gunther L. Faber, CEO of The HealthStore Foundation®, is part of Disruptive Women’s “The Value of Health: Creating Economic Security in the Developing World” series. Context: Lack of Access to Quality Basic Healthcare: The market for drugs and basic healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa is large and fragmented, with millions lacking adequate access to basic healthcare and low quality standards prevailing in many existing private and public facilities. This leads to unacceptable statistics, including 2007 under-5 mortality rates of 12.1% in Kenya[1] and of 18.1% in Rwanda...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 17, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Global Health AFrica AIDS Economic Development health care Kenya Rwanda Sub-Saharan Africa UNICEF Source Type: blogs

Comedy gold in parliament and tragedy from Prince of Wales: editorial in British Medical JournalEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article was meant to celebrate their collective efforts and to celebrate the fact that those efforts are beginning to percolate upwards to influence the powers that be. It seems invidious to pick on one example, but if you want an example of beautiful and trenchant writing on one of the topics dealt with here, you’d be better off reading Andrew Lewis’s piece "Meddling Princes, Medical Regulation and Licenses to Kill” than anything in a print journal. I was a bit disappointed by removal of the comment about the Prince of Wales. In fact I’m not particularly republican compared with ma...
Source: DC's goodscience - December 17, 2009 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: AIDS Anti-science Ben Goldacre Department of Health NHS NICE Pittilo Prince Charles Prince of Wales Prince's Foundation Robert Gordon's university acupuncture antiscience badscience blogosphere herbal medicine herbalism h Source Type: blogs

kearns to LA city council: HIV/AIDS elder summit & new media training in bradley conference center set for valentine’s weekend (2076)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
[december 15, 2009] good morning president garcetti, distinguished council members. i have given the clerk copies of my prepared remarks. my name is richard kearns. i am a 58-year-old gay man living with AIDS in los angeles for more than 20 years, an angelino poet advocate. i am delighted to announce to you this morning that on friday, february 12th, 2010, upstairs in the tom bradley conference center, on the 27th floor, we will hold, the LA city grassroots elder HIV/AIDS advocacy summit & new media training “new tricks for old dogs & their allies” sponsored by councilmember rosendahl & the city AIDS coord...
Source: aids-write.org - December 17, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: 2009 hiv/aids summit & training 2-2010 HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office aging and HIV/AIDS ahf americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black w Source Type: blogs

kearns to LA city council: HIV/AIDS elder summit & new media training in bradley conference center set for valentine’s weekend (2076)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
[december 15, 2009] good morning president garcetti, distinguished council members. i have given the clerk copies of my prepared remarks. my name is richard kearns. i am a 58-year-old gay man living with AIDS in los angeles for more than 20 years, an angelino poet advocate. i am delighted to announce to you this morning that on friday, february 12th, 2010, upstairs in the tom bradley conference center, on the 27th floor, we will hold, the LA city grassroots elder HIV/AIDS advocacy summit & new media training “new tricks for old dogs & their allies” sponsored by councilmember rosendahl & the city AIDS coord...
Source: aids-write.org - December 16, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: 2009 hiv/aids summit & training 2-2010 HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids Source Type: blogs

Pfizer in China, AIDS Drugs in Africa, Vaccine Recall in U.S.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Here’s a quick tour of drug and vaccine news from around the globe: Sanofi-Aventis is recalling 800,000 doses of swine flu vaccine sold in the U.S. for use in infants and toddlers. The vaccine is safe, but it appears to have to have fallen “slightly below” the specified potency, the CDC said. The recalled lots are still strong enough to reduce the risk of catching the disease, according to the agency. Officials have recommended all along that children under 10 receive two shots, at least a month apart. For more information, see this recall Q&A from the CDC. Pfizer will sell the diabetes drug Actos in...
Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog - December 15, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jacob Goldstein Tags: AIDS China Drugs Vaccines swine flu Source Type: blogs

UNITAID Approves A Patent Pool For AIDS MedsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Amid ongoing controversy, UNITAID has signed off on a patent pool that will start operating in mid-2010 with $4 million. Drugmakers will be asked to place patents for 19 HIV meds into a pool that could be licensed to select generic makers, which would pay inventors a small royalty and sell copycats only in certain developing countries. Presumably, prices would fall sharply, but inventors would still get some revenue. “This is an historic day,” Philippe Douste-Blazy, who chairs UNITAID’s executive board, in a statement. “UNITAID has now put in place a mechanism that will make medical advances work for the poor, ...
Source: Pharmalot - December 15, 2009 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized AIDS HIV Patent Pools Patents Unitaid Source Type: blogs

jim sanders, sacbee: CA house dems pick openly gay john a. perez as speaker (2075)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Perez chosen Assembly speaker By Jim Sanders jsanders@sacbee.com Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009 Assembly Democrats this afternoon choseAssemblyman John A. Perez as their new speaker, making the first-term Democrat the first openly gay man to hold the post. Members emerged from a closed-door caucus at the historic Stanford Mansion to announce that Democrats had chosen Perez, of Los Angeles, on an unanimous vote. A public vote on the Assembly floor is expected in January. Perez walked arm-in-arm from the caucus meeting with current Assmbly Speaker Karen Bass and Kevin de Leon, a Los Angeles Democrat who had fought fiercely ...
Source: aids-write.org - December 14, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids citizen journalism criminalization of HIV/AIDS c Source Type: blogs