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November 18, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Some of the most interesting conversations overheard at the recent American Public Health Association annual meeting were among public health students discussing their plans to work in the developing world after graduation. Those plans often include ...
July 23, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The XIX International AIDS Conference is taking place in Washington, D.C., this week at a pivotal point in the prevention and treatment of the disease. The World Health Organization on Friday recommended using antiretroviral medicines to try to prev ...
June 6, 2011 | New Public Health Post
The National Institutes of Health has been the world’s lead agency for developing and funding tests and treatments for HIV/AIDS. Thirty years after publication of the first report about a rare type of pneumonia that became a frequent hallmark of the ...
December 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
A faith-based organization in Charlotte, N.C. recruited and trained members of congregations to help HIV/AIDS patients living in African-American and rural white communities in a 13-county area of the Carolinas.
December 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The Seattle Public School District 1, Seattle, conducted an evaluation of an HIV/AIDS prevention and condom-availability program at public high schools in Seattle.
August 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The present article focused on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected veterans and the prevalence of homelessness and alcohol use among this population. Additionally, the study explored how homelessness and alcohol use were related to health ca ...
March 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
The Yale University School of Organization and Management and the City of New Haven, Department of Health, worked to expand and evaluate a model needle exchange program in New Haven.
July 1, 2009 | Program Result Report
The Health Research and Educational Trust collected and integrated information on patients' race/ethnicity, primary language and socioeconomic status into an electronic health record system, and linked that information with clinical performance measures.
July 1, 2008 | Journal Article
Participation in a primary care buprenorphine/naloxone treatment program was associated with decreased HIV-risk behaviors. Although general counseling was provided in the program, counseling aimed specifically at HIV risk behaviors would probably be of benefit in further reducing such behaviors.
January 1, 1997 | Program Result Report
From 1993 to 1996, the National Youth Sports Coaches Association, West Palm Beach, Fla., the only national nonprofit organization that certifies volunteer youth coaches, carried out two related but separate initiatives.