Howard University Hospital is hosting the International Conference on Stigma on World AIDS Day December 1, 2010.
An article in today’s BusinessWeek (Health Care: Rx for MBA Job Blues) gushes over the opportunities for MBAs in the healthcare industry; “I feel like a kid in a candy shop” is the quote they selected from an aspiring MBA student. My advice to new MBAs as someone who works in healthcare and has one: [...]
Continue reading about Professionals Entering the Healthcare “System”
Between a Jan. 31, 2010 New York Times Op-ed (Sex Ed in Washington) and follow-up responses on Feb. 6 (Sex Ed, With No Federal Strings?) debating the merits and disconnects of sexual education, the Times reported on the findings of a recent study of an abstinence-only intervention (Quick Response to Study of Abstinence Education). From the [...]
Continue reading about New Study on Abstinence-Only Education
The Senate voted (60-39) today to extend coverage to United States citizens. It will be very interesting to watch the details come out of this next year. Will prevention become a focus? Washington Post: Senate approves landmark health-care bill.
The Times ran an editorial (End to the Abstinence-Only Fantasy) on the policy/funding changes for abstinence-only education: From the piece: Gone is all spending for highly restrictive abstinence-only sex education programs that deny young people accurate information about contraceptives, sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy. The measure redirects sex-education resources to medically sound programs aimed at [...]
The Washington Post (HIV funds bypassing areas in need) reports on HIV funding in Washington, DC, citing programs that have had (1) “little lasting impact,” (2) “financial and operational problems,” and even (3) outright fraud. Focusing on the “disparity in AIDS dollars in the District” is one major part of the fiscal equation, but the [...]
Continue reading about A Case for HIV Program Evaluation in DC
Looking for early HIV and AIDS imagery for my dissertation, I came across the following article and website recently: Trebay, G. (2009, December 11). Lost to AIDS, but Still Friended. The New York Times. Retrieved December 12, 2009, from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/fashion/13memorial.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hpw http://www.avert.org/history-science.htm
I was reading the following article in the Post (Federal oversight of subways proposed), which discusses a proposal by the Obama administration to have the federal Dept. of Transportation (DOT) oversee the nation’s subways rather than leave them to state and regional oversight boards. I came across the passage about having oversight bodies pass “certification [...]
I’m finally here in DC…
The Washington Post (HIV vaccine trial’s success more modest than thought) reports on the different ways the HIV vaccine trial data can be manipulated. The primary issue is whether to include all available partial injection data or only full cases where all injections were completed. Since the degree of change in the study was small [...]
Continue reading about Further Analysis of HIV Vaccine Data Tempers Exhortations