What is HFI
Doing With
Your
Dollars?
Promoting
Prevention
and Wellness
The
Hepatitis
Foundation
International
presents
motivational
messages
that inspire
and initiate
individual,
organizational,
and societal
changes that
empower
young and
old alike to
participate
in their own
health care
and make
healthful
lifestyle
choices.
Head Start
Teachers
Praise
Messages to
Help
Children
Stay Healthy
Head start
teachers in
Washington,
DC applauded
HFI's
training to help children avoid liver damaging activities and
to
know how to take better care of their liver. Teachers
recommended that parents also need similar support to help
their
children
avoid drugs
and alcohol.
Minority
University
Peer
Educators in
Illinois,
Virginia and
Alabama Give
High Marks
to HFI's
Foundation
For Decision
Making
Training
HFI's CEO
engaged
college
students in
learning new
information and quick-and-easy techniques to encourage their
peers to avoid liver damaging behaviors such as binge
drinking
and activities that expose them to hepatitis, HIV, and STI's.
Student's
comments
included:
"All the
information
presented
to me today will help me in training others on hepatitis
awareness. Not many people know about hepatitis.
Being
able to actually tell them what cirrhosis and hepatitis are
and even what they do will put things in perspective for
people who don't know how bad hepatitis is and how very
important your liver is."
400
Attendees at
HIV OASIS
Conference
Learned New
Prevention
Messages at
Plenary
Session
"As the
executive
Director of
Okaloosa
AIDS Support
and
Information Services I have witnessed a huge increase in
the number of HIV and Hepatitis C confections in our clients.
We look forward to collaborating with the Hepatitis
Foundation International to add this important "missing link"
in accomplishing our mutual goal of bringing HIV and
hepatitis
under control." -Butch McKay, Executive Director
HIV Outreach
Workers Hear
HFIs Liver
Wellness
Messages -
Center for
Substance
Abuse
Treatment
Conference
"The most
useful info
at this
conference.-
This will be
helpful
to my clients; videos are great.- We will contact you for
more training for our staff." - Comments made by attendees
Office of
Minority
Health
Invites HFI
to Address
Attendees at
National
Conference
Asians,
African
Americans
and other
outreach
workers
learned
new and effective way to encourage their constituents to
avoid liver damaging behaviors.
"The major
thing I
learned from
this
presentation
is how
important my liver is, how important it is to take care of
it,
and how to prevent putting myself and others at risk."
-Comments
made by
students in
post
training
survey
Attendees at
SAMHSA's and
CADCA's
Prevention
Conference
Learn New
Approach To
Prevention
of Drug
Abuse,
Hepatitis,
HIV, and
Binge
Drinking
Frances
Harding,
Director of
The Center
For
Substance
Abuse
Prevention at SAMHSA invited HFI to conduct its Foundation
For Decision Making Training at their Annual Prevention
Conference in DC.
Comments by
attendees
included: "I
am a second
year
trainee working doing a project with teenage girls on HIV &
AIDS. This will help me BIG TIME. Your approach
is amazing
and totally committed to promoting liver education and
prevention of hepatitis and HIV."
News Notes
Sharing
Insulin Pens
a NO NO
Individuals
may be
exposed to
blood-borne
pathogens
that
could cause diseases like hepatitis and HIV as a result of
sharing insulin pens and insulin cartridges, which are only
meant for single-patient use. Although insulin pens may
contain enough insulin for several rounds of injection by
self
administration, the FDA has issued a health alert warning
against the sharing of devices, as they are only approved for
use with one patient per device. Even if the needles
are
changed between patients, it is not safe to share the insulin
pens or insulin cartridges. Blood-borne pathogens, such
as
HIV and the hepatitis viruses may contaminate the reservoir
after the injection, before the needle is changed.
Hep A
Vaccine
Recommended
for Parents
Adopting
Children
U.S.
citizens who
expect to
have close
contact with
an an an an an an an an
adopted child from countries with high rates of hepatitis A
should be immunized if they have not been already, U.S.
immunization advisers said on Wednesday.
Click here
for more
information.
New
Treatment
Option for
Unresectable
Liver Cancer
Nexavar is
an oral
multiple
kinase
inhibitor
for the
treatment of
patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC),
the most common form of liver cancer, and patients with
advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC), the most common type
of kidney cancer. Until now, patients with unresectable HCC
have had limited treatment options. Now, Nexavar offers
a
new treatment option with proven clinical benefits for
unresectable HCC. Nexavar provides the latest
information
for the treatment of patients with unresectable HCC and
patients with advanced RCC. It also provides links to
comprehensive support programs to help patients with
unresectable HCC or advanced RCC manage their therapy.
Changing
Ailing
Healthcare
System
Changing our ailing healthcare system includes promoting
healthy lifestyle behaviors. A Huge task at best. The
Hepatitis Foundation International (HFI) has a "leg up" on
promoting healthy lifestyles in collaboration with many
private and government agencies. All Americans want to
be healthy.
Click here
for more
information.
Attention:
Men and
Pregnant
Women Taking
Ribavirin
Registry
Established
for
Potential
Birth
Defects
The Registry
enrolls
pregnant
women who
have been
inadvertently
exposed to
Ribavirin
either
directly (6
months
before or
during
pregnancy)
or
indirectly
(through her
male
sexual
partner 6
months
before or
during
pregnancy.
Click here
for more
information
HFI’s
Wellness
Approach
Included In
CDC’s 2008
Top Five
Evidence-Based
Prevention
Interventions.
"Study to
Reduce
Intravenous
Exposure"
(STRIVE) was
among the
top five
Evidence-
Based HIV
Prevention
Interventions
identified
by the
Centers for
Disease
Control
and
Prevention
in 2008.
Click here for lease.
CDC Study: Failures to Follow Infection Practices Placed More
Than 60,000 Patients at Risk for Hepatitis B and C_
In the last decade, more than 60,000 patients in the
United
States were asked to get tested for hepatitis B virus (HBV)
and hepatitis C virus (HCV) because health care personnel in
settings outside hospitals failed to follow basic infection
control practices, according to a new study done by the CDC.
Click
here for the full press release.