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HIV News
TEXAS: National HIV Testing Day Highlights
Importance of Knowing HIV Status
CDC NCHSTP Daily News Update
Tammye Nash
Dallas Voice (06.15.06) - Monday, June 19,
2006
Dallas-area AIDS service organizations expect a renewed
emphasis on HIV testing will result in a record number of people
participating in this year's National HIV Testing Day on June
27. The campaign is produced each year by the National
Association of People with AIDS to encourage people to find out
their HIV status.
"We tested 166 people last year in one day,"
said Bret Camp, director of the Nelson-Tebedo Health Resource
Center. "I think we will exceed that this year. Public awareness
is higher this year, and we are promoting it more aggressively
than before."
For those who are HIV-positive, "getting the proper care
early on, before your immune system has been significantly
compromised - that's the key to surviving HIV," said Camp. "The
medical regimens these days are easier, less intimidating. The
side effects are not as bad now as they were in the early days."
People who discover they are positive can also take the
necessary precautions to prevent further transmission.
Camp said the center has plans to make testing free, quick,
and easy for those who take advantage of the event. "We already
have lots of volunteers lined up to do pre-test and post-test
counseling. We have extra nurses coming in to do the
phlebotomy," he said. "All of our volunteers have left their
schedules open that day to be available to help those who come
in."
Nelson-Tebedo will offer the standard ELISA blood test to
clients, who can opt for anonymous or confidential screening.
Positive results are confirmed via Western Blot testing. The
clinic, located at 4012 Cedar Springs Rd., will also offer free
syphilis testing that day, Camp added. A national list of
testing sites can be found at www.hivtest.org. |
ZAMBIA: One Million Zambian
Children to Be Orphaned by HIV/AIDS: Official
CDC NCHSTP Daily News Update
Xinhua News Agency (06.16.06) - Monday, June
19, 2006
HIV/AIDS has already orphaned an estimated 750,000 children
and that may climb to 1 million, or 20 percent of Zambia's
children, by 2015, according to a government official quoted
Friday in the local Post. Most of these AIDS orphans will have
no hope of obtaining a formal education, Acting Health Minister
Ronnie Shikapwasha was quoted as saying. "It has been estimated
that 6 percent of these children are in streets and less than 1
percent live in orphanages," Shikapwasha said Thursday at a
national AIDS conference in Lusaka. The minister predicted that,
without effective policies, the orphans would become the next
generation of poor. "Support to orphans and vulnerable children
through improving access to education, health care, nutrition,
food, housing, and a stable family is essential," said
Shikapwasha. Zambia lacks 50-60 percent of the staff and 50
percent of the funding necessary to tackle the disease, he said. |
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