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Today is World AIDS Day and health advocates are asking Kentuckians to get tested and get treatment.
- Hiv And Aids Cases Are On The Rise In Kentucky; Officials Blame Lack Of Education And Increase Of Heroin Use
Despite readily available information and awareness about practicing safe sex, and avoiding sharing needles, HIV and AIDS cases are on the rise in Kentucky. And the reason, say officials, is ignorance and an increase in heroin use, Mary Meehan reports...
- More Americans Dying From Hepatitis C Than From Aids
More people are dying in the U.S. from hepatitis C than from AIDS, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. More than 3.2 million Americans have the hepatitis virus, which can cause chronic infection of the liver and eventually...
- Dec. 1 Is World Aids Day; 1.2 Million Americans Are Thought To Be Infected, But Only 1 In 5 Know It
Friday is World AIDS Day, an opportunity to learn the facts about the virus and show support for people living with it. In the United States, there are 1.2 million people living with the HIV infection, which leads to AIDS. Of those who are infected with...
- Monday, June 27 Is National Hiv Testing Day
Kentuckians are being encouraged to find out their HIV status on Monday, June 27, National HIV Testing Day. About 1,700 Kentuckians were diagnosed with HIV between Jan. 1, 2005 and Dec. 31, 2009. About 1 in 3 Kentucky adults under the age of 65...
- Sinai Hospital Offers Hiv Services
While today is World AIDS Day, every day is a chance for staff at LifeBridge Health to provide education and awareness about HIV and AIDS. One example: the Women, Children and Youth HIV Program at Sinai Hospital reached 300 people in 2007 through presentations...
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Get tested, get treatment, Bluegrass HIV Coalition encourages
Today is World AIDS Day and health advocates are asking Kentuckians to get tested and get treatment.Hundreds of Kentuckians are diagnosed with AIDS each year, reports Mary Meehan of the Lexington Herald-Leader. Minority populations are hit particularly hard, with black men nearly 10 times more likely to die of AIDS than non-Hispanic white men. Black women are almost 23 more times more likely to die from the infections, compared to non-Hispanic white women.
Though people are still dying, AIDS is not a widely-discussed disease, in part because of its past association with homosexual activity. Mark Johnson, member of the Bluegrass HIV Coalition, said AIDS can be hard for people to talk about.
In addition, the infection is often seen as treatable, in part because of people like Magic Johnson, who has had the infection more than 20 years but is still in good health. What people don't see "is the often expensive regimen of drugs that is needed to keep the worst of the disease at bay, the side effects of those medicines or the ultimate end of what is still an incurable disease," Meehan reports. (Read more)
- Hiv And Aids Cases Are On The Rise In Kentucky; Officials Blame Lack Of Education And Increase Of Heroin Use
Despite readily available information and awareness about practicing safe sex, and avoiding sharing needles, HIV and AIDS cases are on the rise in Kentucky. And the reason, say officials, is ignorance and an increase in heroin use, Mary Meehan reports...
- More Americans Dying From Hepatitis C Than From Aids
More people are dying in the U.S. from hepatitis C than from AIDS, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. More than 3.2 million Americans have the hepatitis virus, which can cause chronic infection of the liver and eventually...
- Dec. 1 Is World Aids Day; 1.2 Million Americans Are Thought To Be Infected, But Only 1 In 5 Know It
Friday is World AIDS Day, an opportunity to learn the facts about the virus and show support for people living with it. In the United States, there are 1.2 million people living with the HIV infection, which leads to AIDS. Of those who are infected with...
- Monday, June 27 Is National Hiv Testing Day
Kentuckians are being encouraged to find out their HIV status on Monday, June 27, National HIV Testing Day. About 1,700 Kentuckians were diagnosed with HIV between Jan. 1, 2005 and Dec. 31, 2009. About 1 in 3 Kentucky adults under the age of 65...
- Sinai Hospital Offers Hiv Services
While today is World AIDS Day, every day is a chance for staff at LifeBridge Health to provide education and awareness about HIV and AIDS. One example: the Women, Children and Youth HIV Program at Sinai Hospital reached 300 people in 2007 through presentations...