Some teenagers and young adults might overestimate how often they use condoms during sex, according to a study published recently in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Reuters Health reports ( http://tinyurl.com/a38sh6 ). Eve Rose of Emory University and colleagues conducted the study among 715 black women and girls ages 15 to 21 who were enrolled in an HIV prevention program. An abstract of the study is available online. http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/163/1/61 [posted on Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report  - Thursday, January 15, 2009]

http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/PS09-007.htm
Application Submission Receipt Date(s): March 3, 2009
A conference call with all potential applicants will be held on January 13, 2009 at 1:00pm, E.T., phone number 866-620-0420 pass code 8943360.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced the publication of a new research funding opportunity announcement (FOA)  –RFA-PS-09-007 entitled “Evaluating Locally-Developed (Homegrown) HIV Prevention Interventions for African-American and Hispanic/Latino Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) (U01).
This funding opportunity will support applicants in the United States that partner with a local community-based organization (CBO), including but not limited to AIDS service organizations or faith-based organizations, to implement and rigorously evaluate potentially effective but insufficiently evaluated HIV prevention interventions for
(A) high risk African-American men who have sex with men (MSM) or
(B) high-risk Hispanic/Latino MSM.

The intervention must have been developed by the CBO with substantial input from the served community, and may be referred to as a locally-developed or homegrown intervention.
[posted on CBPR listserv]

North American Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit Mobilizing Knowledge: Housing is HIV Prevention and Care
June 3-5, 2009 in Washington DC
Call for Abstracts Due Jan 15
http://www.nationalaidshousing.org/PDF/CFA.pdf
The US National AIDS Housing Coalition (NAHC), working in collaboration with the Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN) and the Department of Health, Behavior and Society of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is pleased to announce the fourth Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit, a meeting of leading health, housing and social service researchers and policy makers. The Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit series is an interdisciplinary, interactive forum for the presentation of  research findings on the relationship of housing status and HIV prevention and care, coupled with dialogue on public policy implications and strategies among researchers, policy makers, and providers and consumers of HIV housing and services. [ posted on Cbpr listserv]

Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 11:30:00 AM ET
http://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?live=7320
Dr. Varmus chairs the Scientific Board of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges in Global Health program and leads the Advisory Committee for the Global Health Division. He was a member of the World Health Organization Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, and is a co-founder of the Public Library of Science, a leading publisher of open access journals. In addition, Dr. Varmus serves as co-chair of the IOM’s committee on The U.S. Commitment to Global Health. The committee will issue its interim report on the day preceding the lecture. You will be able to view the event at http://videocast.nih.gov when the event is live. Read the complete NIH News Release is available online at
http://www.nih.gov/news/health/dec2008/fic-10.htm

http://www.kaiseredu.org/tutorials/hivsurveillance/player.html
In this narrated slide tutorial, Jen Kates, M.A., M.P.A., vice president and director of HIV policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation, defines basic surveillance terms and explains the federal and states’ role in surveillance of the U.S. epidemic. The tutorial also features a guide to reading a surveillance report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and explains the various data contained in the report. [from the Kaiser Family Foundation ]

AIDS.gov http://www.aids.gov/index.html

AIDSinfo http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/

December 1 is World AIDS Day
Resources on HIV/AIDS:
AIDS.gov http://www.aids.gov/
Information from the Federal government about HIV/AIDS prevention, testing, treatment, research, and using new media in response to HIV/AIDS.

AIDSinfo http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov/
The AIDSinfo Web site provides a wide range of resources on HIV/AIDS research, clinical trials, prevention, and treatment information. The site is designed for full accessibility and easy searching. All of the resources can be viewed online. Many can be downloaded in HTML, PDF, or personal digital assistant (PDA) formats. There is even a section for students.

infoSIDA http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/infoSIDA/
infoSIDA es el sitio web en español de AIDSinfo. AIDSinfo es un Proyecto del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos (conocido como Department of Health and Human Services o HHS en inglés) que ofrece la información más reciente aprobada por el gobierno federal de los Estados Unidos sobre investigaciones clínicas, tratamiento y prevención del VIH/SIDA y pautas sobre las prácticas médicas destinadas a las personas con infección por el VIH/SIDA, sus familias y amigos, proveedores de atención de salud, científicos e investigadores.

The AIDS InfoNet http://www.aidsinfonet.org/
The AIDS InfoNet is a project of the New Mexico AIDS Education and Training Center in the Infectious Diseases Division of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. The InfoNet was originally designed to make information on HIV/AIDS services and treatments easily accessible in both English and Spanish for residents of New Mexico. Its mission has expanded to that of providing HIV/AIDS treatment information in non-technical language in various languages. The primary audience for InfoNet materials includes people living with HIV and their caregivers, especially nurses and other first-line treatment providers. Through collaborative agreements with AIDS service organizations in various countries, the InfoNet is expanding the range of languages in which its materials are offered. It has increased the global reach of the InfoNet,by providing informaction in six languages: English, Spanish, Русский язык (Russian), Български (Bulgarian), Bahasa Indonesia and Nepali.

La Infored Sida http://www.aidsinfonet.org/?lang=spa
La InfoRed SIDA es un proyecto del Centro para la Educación y Entrenamiento sobre SIDA de Nuevo México de la División de Enfermedades Infecciosas del Centro de Ciencias para la Salud de la Universidad de Nuevo México. La InfoRed fue diseñada originalmente para facilitar el acceso a información, en inglés y en español, sobre servicios y tratamientos para el VIH/SIDA a los residentes de Nuevo México. Su misión se ha incrementado hasta la provisión de información sobre el tratamiento de VIH/Sida, en varios idiomas, en lenguaje no técnico. La audiencia primaria para los materiales de la InfoRed SIDA incluye las personas viviendo con el VIH y sus proveedores de cuidado, en especial las enfermeras y otros proveedores de primera línea. Gracias a acuerdos de colaboración con Organizaciones de servicios relacionados con el SIDA y con individuos de varios países, las hojas informativas de InfoRed están disponibles un una variedad en aumento de diferentes idiomas.

8th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference:
Building Safe, Healthy and Livable Communities
http://www.newpartners.org/about.html
January 22-24, 2009, Albuquerque, NM

North American Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit
http://nationalaidshousing.org/2008/08/save-the-date/
June 3-5, 2009, Washington DC

Third National Leadership Summit
A Bluepring for Change
http://www.omhrc.gov/npasummit2009/
February 25-27 National Harbor, MD

Stonyfield Teams with KaBOOM! to Fund Play Spaces for Two Communities
Deadline: December 31, 2008
Organic yogurt maker Stonyfield Farm ( http://stonyfield.com/ )  is teaming with KaBOOM! ( http://kaboom.org/ ), the national nonprofit dedicated to bringing play back to the lives of children,  to provide much-needed places to play for two deserving schools or youth organizations.  http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/15015326/stoneyfield

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Invites Ideas on National Health Reform
Deadline: December 2, 2008 (Brief Proposals)
The Coverage Team at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation  ( http://www.rwjf.org/ ) is accepting proposals on a broad  range of applicant-initiated projects related to national  health reform. This call for proposals will fund projects that will increase  the likelihood that the nation’s health care debate will lead  to solutions and build momentum to drive federal policy makers  to act. In order for the debate to be successful, there are  critical issues that need to be addressed, including a better  understanding of how to design, implement, administer, and  sustain policies to expand healthcare coverage. http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/15015332/rwjfapplications

Syringe Access Fund to Support Programs to Prevent Spread of HIV
Deadline: November 20, 2008
The Syringe Access Fund is a grantmaking initiative that sup-  ports service providers and policy projects to reduce the risk  of HIV infection and other blood-borne pathogens among injection  drug users, their sexual partners, and children through expanded  access to sterile syringes. The fund is a grantmaking collabor-  ation between the Elton John AIDS Foundation ( http://ejaf.org/ ),  the Irene Diamond Fund, the Levi Strauss Foundation  ( http://levistrauss.com/citizenship/levistraussfoundation.aspx ),  the Public Welfare Foundation ( http://www.publicwelfare.org/ ),  and the Tides Foundation ( http://www.tidesfoundation.org/ ).  http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/15015336/tidesfdn

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October 15
http://www.nlaad.org/
HIV/AIDS is the third leading cause of death among Hispanic men ages 35 to 44 and the fourth leading cause of death among Hispanic women in the same age group. [From Hispanics and HIV Testing - English http://www.nlaad.org/promotehivtesting.php]

Additional Resources:
AIDSinfo http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/other/specialityPage.aspx?pageID=4
infoSIDA http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/infoSIDA/
US Dept. of Health and Human Services: http://www.hhs.gov/aidsawarenessdays/days/latino/index.html