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World AIDS Day: Getting to Zero
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Antiretroviral drugs reducing the spread of HIV in heterosexuals
According to HealthDay News, two recent studies in Africa have shown antiretroviral drugs are effective in preventing the spread of HIV in heterosexuals.
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Networking Nurses
Facebook, Twitter, blogs, online forums, podcasts, smartphones, wikis...social networking is all around us, impacting our lives and careers in new ways daily. Telenursing is gaining momentum, and it will continue to do so as health care enters the digital age
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Why Volunteer?
HIV nursing in Nigeria and Kenya through the eyes of a nurse practitioner from the Bronx
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Preventing HIV/AIDS in Older African American Women
HIV infections are rising at an alarming rate among postmenopausal black women, and clinicians who provide health services need to be educated on their risk behaviors.
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Want to Help Fight AIDS in the Black Community? Play Bid Whist!
The Black AIDS Institute unveils the latest weapon in its war against HIV/AIDS disparities: the 2010 Trump AIDS National Bid Whist Tournament.
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White House, CDC Launch National AIDS Awareness Campaign
Act Against AIDS is a five-year national communication campaign targeted specifically to the minority populations most severely affected by AIDS disparities.
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Yes Nurses Can
Minority Nurse's open letter on healthcare to newly elected President Barack Obama.
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Resources Roundup 2008
One of the biggest benefits of attending minority nursing association conferences—in addition to all the networking opportunities, educational programming, CEUs and camaraderie, of course—is getting to visit exhibits filled with booth after booth offering free or low-cost minority health resources that you can take home and start using in your practice right away.
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FDA Approves First “Bloodless” Rapid HIV Test
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UIC Nursing School Brings AIDS Education to Malawi
The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing has been awarded a $1.25 million grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research to launch an unusual AIDS prevention community outreach project—unusual because the communities are located in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in Africa.
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Groundbreaking HIV Prevention Campaign Targets Latino Gay Community
The colorful, bilingual advertisements first began to appear on San Francisco mass-transit buses in June. The messages and images they contain are simple but bold.
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America’s Cities Promote AIDS Prevention in Minority Communities
In 1998, then-President Clinton challenged the nation to do something about the severe health crisis of HIV/AIDS in racial and ethnic minority communities—and America’s cities and their mayors have risen to that challenge.
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The Feminization of AIDS: Why Our Sisters are Suffering
A nursing student reflects on the crisis of rising HIV and AIDS rates among African American women.
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Nurses vs. HIV/AIDS Disparities: Interventions that Work
In part one of an exclusive two-part series, we showcase the innovative work of minority nurses who are creating successful solutions for improving HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention in communities of color.
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The Greatest Gift
How an HIV-positive nurse came to realize that his disease is a blessing in disguise--for both himself and his patients
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Nurses vs. HIV/AIDS Disparities: Creating Culturally Competent Interventions
In the conclusion of an exclusive two-part series, we examine the wide variety of resources available to help nurses develop their own culturally targeted solutions for addressing HIV/AIDS disparities in specific minority populations
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