On Wednesday, September 24th 2008 at 3:00  pm (EST), The Office of HIV/AIDS Policy’s AIDS.gov will conduct a 30-minute  webinar, “Underserved Populations and New Media  Use“.  Join and listen as experts address:  Is there a “digital divide”? How are underserved communities using new media? How can we  use new media to reach underserved communities with HIV/AIDS  messages? The webinar will also include a Q&A  session.  Speakers  will include Fard Johnmar, Founder of Envision Solutions,  LLC, and Alejandro Garcia-Barbon, Senior Technical Advisor to  IQ Solutions, Inc. and NIDA’s  “Drugs + HIV > Learn the  Link” Campaign.  https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/741956532 [posted on [CLAStalk-list]

Public Health Memory Jogger II
http://www.goalqpc.com/shop_products_detail.cfm?PID=754&PageNum_GetProducts=1
Pocket guide containing quality improvement and planning tools specific for public health organizations.

HIVnet
http://www.ahrq.gov/data/hivnet.htm
HIVnet is a tool that provides information on inpatient and outpatient utilization by persons with HIV disease. This information is valuable for service providers, program planners, policymakers, and health services researchers. HIVnet is focused on health services delivery.

[posted in PHPartners http://phpartners.org/ - New Links for the week of Aug 29, 2008]

http://tinyurl.com/5jgj3g
Apllications due September 5
As part of a continuing HHS effort to improve the health and well being of racial and ethnic minorities, the Department announces availability of FY 2008 funding for the Collaborative Technical Assistance and Capacity Development Demonstration Grant Program for the Coordination and Delivery of a Continuum of HIV/AIDS-Related Services in Minority Communities (hereafter referred to as the CTA/CD Program). The CTA/CD Program seeks to develop and improve the coordination and continuum of HIV prevention, treatment and support services provided by organizations closely interfaced with targeted minority populations impacted by HIV/AIDS. It is expected that applicants will identify community-based, minority serving organizations that are well linked with targeted minority populations affected by HIV/AIDS, and which have recognized needs and/or gaps in their capacity to provide a comprehensive continuum of HIV/AIDS-related prevention and treatment services, inclusive of mental health, substance abuse and primary healthcare. The applicant, in collaborative partnership with primary care service sites, and substance abuse and/or mental health treatment and prevention programs, will then provide technical assistance and capacity building services to those organizations based on their identified needs. Examples of technical assistance and capacity development services that may be provided to improve the continuum of HIV/AIDS services, include the development of formal partnerships and referral arrangements, and/or provision of guidance on the enhancement or expansion of existing on-site primary care, case management, and substance abuse prevention and treatment services. [OMHRC E*NEWS FLASH!]

New technology and methodology developed by CDC show that the incidence of HIV in the United States is higher than was previously known. However, the incidence has been stable at that higher level for most of this decade. HIV incidence is the number of new HIV infections occurring during a certain time period, in this case, the year 2006.

These findings, published by in a special HIV/AIDS issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that was released August 3, 2008, show that in 2006, an estimated 56,300 new HIV infections occurred – a number that is substantially higher than the previous estimate of 40,000 annual new infections. It should be noted that the new incidence estimate does not represent an actual increase in the numbers of HIV infections. Rather, a separate CDC historical trend analysis published as part of this study suggests that the annual number of new infections was never as low as 40,000 and that it has been roughly stable since the late 1990s (with estimates ranging between 55,000 and 58,500 during the three most recent time periods analyzed). http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/incidence.htm

The History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce our newest website, AIDS Ephemera, based on an exhibit of that name at the NLM from November 2002 to June 2003. AIDS was first identified in 1981 and the initial response to the disease generated ephemeral public health materials, such as buttons, posters, cards, comic books, and even lunch boxes. Since AIDS was both incurable and invariably fatal, these messages of prevention were the only effective steps public health officials could take. Produced by government health departments as well as private organizations, these ephemeral objects became an important medium for messages of awareness, prevention, compassion, and responsibility. Buttons and posters provided information on disease symptoms and safe practices, while comic books spun tales of the consequences of risky sex and needle sharing. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/aidsephemera

Kaisernetwork.org will provide daily coverage of AIDS 2008 from Mexico City, August 3-8, 2008. http://www.kaisernetwork.org/aids2008

Coverage will include:

• Live and tape-delayed webcasts and transcripts of each day’s sessions, including the opening and closing sessions, all plenary sessions, and selected other sessions and press conferences;
• English- and Spanish-language audio podcasts of select sessions;
• Slide presentations from select conference sessions;
• Daily narrated video highlights of conference developments;
• A free Daily Update email with links to the latest coverage;
• Extended news coverage in the Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, including summaries of coverage from international news sources and newly-released studies; and
• Interviews with newsmakers and journalists to summarize conference developments.

Fact Sheet No. 31 - 2008
Joint publication by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the World Health Organization (WHO)
Available online PDF [52p.] at: http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/Factsheet31.pdf
“…..This fact sheet aims to shed light on the right to health in international human rights law as it currently stands, amidst the plethora of initiatives and proposals as to what the right to health may or should be. Consequently, it does not purport to provide an exhaustive list of relevant issues or to identify specific standards in relation to them.

The fact sheet starts by explaining what the right to health is and illustrating its implications for specific individuals and groups, and then elaborates upon States’ obligations with respect to the right. It ends with an overview of national, regional and international accountability and monitoring mechanisms….” [posted on PAHO/WHO Equity List]

This week, the National Latino AIDS Action Agenda Network (NLAAN), which includes organizations from cities across the country, released the Latino/Hispanic HIV/AIDS Federal Policy Recommendations Addressing the Latino AIDS Crisis. lease take a moment to read the press release and the recommendations below. For more information, visit http://www.latinoaidsagenda.org/. Read the reports in English and Spanish:

•Latino/Hispanic HIV/AIDS Federal Policy Recommendations Addressing the Latino AIDS Crisis
http://nmac.convio.net/site/DocServer/NLAAN_Recommendations_PageType_Eng.pdf?docID=483
•Recomendaciones de Política Federal sobre la crisis del SIDA sobre como abordar la Epidemia del VIH/SIDA entre los Latinos http://nmac.convio.net/site/DocServer/NLAAN_Recommendations_PageType_Esp.pdf?docID=484
[posted on NMAC in Action]

NPR’s “News & Notes” on Monday included a discussion with comic book illustrator Robert Walker, who has written a comic book, titled “O+ Men,” that aims to increase HIV/AIDS awareness. HIV-positive characters in the book take an experimental antidote that unexpectedly gives them superpowers, according to NPR. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91554113 [posted on Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report - Wednesday, June 18, 2008]

June 27 is National HIV Testing Day. http://www.hhs.gov/aidsawarenessdays/days/testing/index.html Visit http://www.hivtest.org to find a HIV testing site near you, to get resource materials, or locate or add an NHTD event. For more resources visit AIDSinfo.gov http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov/

infoSIDA, http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov/infosida/ the Spanish-language Web site for HIV treatment and clinical trials, has updated its look to be more visually dynamic while highlighting the Spanish listserv http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov/Other/subscribe_sp.aspx [posted on OMHRC E*NEWS FLASH!]