What do You know about HOPWA?

 

In response to the unique and varied housing needs of people living with HIV/AIDS the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) program was created in 1992. The program, housed in the Office of Community Planning and Development in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), directly addresses the housing and service needs of people living with HIV/AIDS. Research has shown that housing is the greatest unmet service need for people living with the disease.

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HIV As You Get Older

By R. Morgan Griffin
WebMD Feature  http://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/features/hiv-and-aging

Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD

 

 

Many people think of HIV as a young person’s disease, but it’s not. “By 2015, half of all people with HIV will be 50 or older,” says Brad Hare, MD, director of the HIV/AIDS clinic at San Francisco General Hospital. This greying of the HIV population shows how well today’s HIV treatments can work.

HIV makes aging itself more complicated. But plenty of people have had HIV for years, even decades, and are doing well.

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Dining Out for LIfe fundraiser

New Haven

www.apnh.org 

Dining Out For Life Event Date:

April 24, 2014

DINING OUT FOR LIFE CONNECTICUT

SAVE THE DATE!

April 24, 2014 for  Dining Out for Life 2014!

 Please check our list of participating restaurants and make a reservation at your favorite one today! If you know of a restaurant that you think would like to participate, send us an email!

How It Works
Dining Out for Life is an international event that has raised over $5.5 million since 1990 to help AIDS service organizations. Participating restaurants donate at least 25% of your purchases on this one special day to AIDS Project New Haven, for HIV/AIDS care and prevention to people throughout the state of Connecticut.

GET INVOLVED!

Become an Ambassador. Help us fill a restaurant! Recruit 25-30 of your friends, family, and colleagues to dine at a participating restaurant. You’ll be in the restaurant throughout the evening thanking people and encouraging them to make personal donations. Sound like FUN?! Contact Fran to today to join in.

Captain a Table. Plan to bring a party of 10 or more to one of the participating restaurants. Encourage everyone to make individual donations.

Spread the Word. “Like” us on FACEBOOK, and then share the details with your social networks!

Be Part of the Street Team. Get out in your neighborhood and get the word out about Dining Out for Life! Members of our street team go to businesses and other public places, hanging posters and handing out dining guides. The more people who learn about us, the more people who dine out and join our community!

Dine Out. Make plans to eat at a participating restaurant on Thursday, April 24th! Bring friends!

Sign Up To Volunteer Now!

If you are not able to join us but would like to contribute, go to Donate Now

Obama Reveals $100 Million HIV Research Initiative

By LAURAN NEERGAARD 12/02/13 05:54 PM ET EST

 

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama announced a new initiative at the National Institutes of Health in pursuit of a cure for HIV, saying his administration is redirecting $100 million into the project to find a new generation of therapies.

“The United States should be at the forefront of new discoveries into how to put HIV into long-term remission without requiring lifelong therapies, or better yet, eliminate it completely,” Obama said.

Obama made the announcement Monday at a White House event marking World AIDS Day, which was Sunday — and as health leaders and philanthropists gathered in Washington to determine how to replenish the major global health fund that combats AIDS and two of the world’s other leading killers in low-income countries.

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The Man Who Had HIV and Now Does Not

Four years ago, Timothy Brown underwent an innovative procedure. Since then, test after test has found absolutely no trace of the virus in his body. The bigger miracle, though, is how his case has experts again believing they just might find a cure for AIDS.

By Tina Rosenberg

Published May 29, 2011

AIDS is a disease of staggering numbers, of tragically recursive devastation. Since the first diagnosis, 30 years ago this June 5, HIV has infected more than 60 million people, around 30 million of whom have died. For another 5 million, anti-retroviral therapy has made their infection a manageable though still chronic condition. Until four years ago, Timothy Brown was one of those people.
Brown is a 45-year-old translator of German who lives in San Francisco. He is of medium height and very skinny, with thinning brown hair. He found out he had HIV in 1995. He had not been tested for the virus in half a decade, but that year a former partner turned up positive. “You’ve probably got only two years to live,” the former partner told him when Brown got his results.

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AIDS Awareness Day is April 22, 2014