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[unable to retrieve full-text content] Don't give people gonorrhea for Christmas: health officials    New York Daily News https://ift.tt/2OTjh5x

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 27, 2019-- Today, the National AIDS Memorial and Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) announced a $2.4 million donation from Gilead to support The AIDS Memorial Quilt (The Quilt), its public education programs and its relocation to San Francisco under the stewardship of the National AIDS Memorial. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191127005622/en/ The grant will provide important resources as the National AIDS Memorial works with The NAMES Project Foundation (NPF) to move more than 50,000 individual memorial panels of The Quilt from Atlanta to San Francisco, where it will permanently reside. The grant will also support The Quilt programs, which include displays, panel making and conservation, and a new educational initiative that will be launched in 2020 to help reach communities and populations adversely impacted by HIV through the symbolism of The Quilt. “Gilead has had...

Mental health is on the decline among American millennials. It's such a problem that Blue Cross Blue Shield defined mental health as millennials' "health shock" in a recent report — and compared its effects to those the Vietnam War, recreational drug use, and the AIDS epidemic had on previous generations of the same age. Health shocks, as defined by the World Health Organization , are "unpredictable illnesses that diminish health status." The government has been documenting health shocks in terms of mortality since 1960, according to the recent Blue Cross Blue Shield report . The graph below documents these health shocks when the oldest members of each generation start turning 35, according to the Pew Research Center's definition of generations . Millennials are ages 23 to 38 in 2019. Each peak — the late 1960s to early 1970s, the 1990s, and 2015 — represents a health shock. Each peak signifies a health shock at the time the generation turned ...

Inclusion is critical for HIV-cure research As prospects improve for research on cures for HIV, advocates are urging that women and transgender people be included in any future clinical trials. Women and girls make up roughly half of the 38 million people in the world living with HIV, but participation in clinical trials skews heavily toward males, said Brian Minalga, project manager for the Women’s HIV Research Collaborative , a National Institutes of Health-funded advisory group housed at Fred Hutch.   “A cure would be huge. It would change everything, and women and transgender people need to be involved in that,” Minalga said. “It is their human right.”   At a recent conference of the Association of AIDS Care Nurses in Portland, Oregon, Minalga presented results of an analysis by the New York-based Treatment Action Group of 128 HIV-cure studies. Of the only 44 studies that reported enrollment by sex, 18 (40%) were all male, one was all female, and 25 included male...

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — World AIDS Day is Sunday and the Cape Fear region will be able to commemorate it with panels of the famed AIDS Memorial Quilt. The Quilt is an enormous memorial to celebrate the lives of people who have died of AIDS-related causes. All together the quilt weighs an estimated 54 tons and as of 2016 it is the largest piece of community folk art in the world.  Each panel is 3 by 6 feet or the size of a human grave. - Advertisement - SEEDS of Healing is collaborating with the Frank Harr Foundation to bring 20 panels to various locations in Wilmington for two weeks.  The 2nd Annual Red Ribbon Event is December 1 at  the Cameron Art Museum.  It is designed to bring awareness to the continuing epidemic and help marginalized populations in the community. More information and tickets are available by clicking here . https://ift.tt/34EvK3G

[unable to retrieve full-text content] AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin adopts new name    Milwaukee Business Journal https://ift.tt/2Ou7cVM

NEWS AND VIEWS 27 November 2019 Drug resistance in malaria parasites is mediated by mutations in a transporter protein. The transporter’s structure reveals the molecular basis of how key mutations bring about resistance to different drugs. Leann Tilley & Leann Tilley is in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia. Contact Search for this author in: Philip J. Rosenthal Philip J. Rosenthal is in the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143 USA. Contact Search for this author in: About half a million people, most of them children living in Africa, are killed each year by malaria 1 . Management of malaria, particularly that caused by the highly virulent protozoan parasite Plasmodium falciparum , is challenged by the emergence of resistance to antimalarial drugs 2 . Writing in Nature , Kim et al . 3 report the str...

Images show how changes in a specific protein of the malaria parasite are causing a frontline treatment to lose effectiveness Results show how antimalarial resistance could spread out of Southeast Asia Study suggests way to restore antimalarial potency Malaria parasites are rapidly developing resistance to front-line drugs across the world, threatening to undo years of progress in reducing deaths from the disease. New pictures of a key mediator of drug resistance for the parasite—captured with single-particle cryo-electron microscopy by a team of scientists at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeon—are now giving researchers clues about how to combat resistance. The study , published Nov. 27 in the journal Nature, shows that drug resistance in the malaria parasite is linked to a specific protein and illustrates how mutations in the protein allow the parasite to expel the drug. The new discovery may help scientists find ways to restore the drugs’ p...

Clap back is one of those new social media phrases about defending your stance, but when health officials warn the clap is back, that’s an entirely different thing. The New Brunswick Department of Health is doing just that, urging everyone to practice safe sex as we approach the festive season’s parties and over-indulgence, CBC reports. The province hasn’t been able to shake a 2018 outbreak of gonorrhea, according to Dr. Jennifer Russell, chief medical officer of health. “This holiday season spread holiday cheer, not #gonorrhea,” says a provincial ad posted on Twitter this week. The province recorded 96 cases of the sexually-transmitted disease during 2018 while there were only 54 cases for all of the previous five years. The trend might be declining a bit as there were 20 cases in the first three months of this year. “We’re seeing an increase in testing across the province, and that’s very encouraging,” Russell said. The province has hired an outside consultant and posted informati...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Incidence and predictors of chlamydia, gonorrhea and trichomonas among a prospective cohort of cisgender female sex workers in Baltimore, Maryland    MD Linx https://ift.tt/2rw4VjP

SAN FRANCISCO--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Today, the National AIDS Memorial and Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) announced a $2.4 million donation from Gilead to support The AIDS Memorial Quilt (The Quilt), its public education programs and its relocation to San Francisco under the stewardship of the National AIDS Memorial. The grant will provide important resources as the National AIDS Memorial works with The NAMES Project Foundation (NPF) to move more than 50,000 individual memorial panels of The Quilt from Atlanta to San Francisco, where it will permanently reside. The grant will also support The Quilt programs, which include displays, panel making and conservation, and a new educational initiative that will be launched in 2020 to help reach communities and populations adversely impacted by HIV through the symbolism of The Quilt. “Gilead has had a tremendous impact as a scientific leader in the development of therapeutic treatments for HIV/AIDS and, through its philanthropic efforts, ...

The Boys & Girls of Southwest Washington received a $179,425 gift from the Ed and Dollie Lynch Fund to hire someone to oversee human resource management for the nonprofit. With eight fully staffed club sites in Clark County serving nearly 4,000 youth annually, Executive Director Francisco Bueno said the 20-year-old nonprofit is “at a critical point in our history and growth.” The multiyear grant from the Lynch Fund held at the Community Foundation for Southwest Washington will cover a new position called the director of people. “The new director of people is an important addition to our leadership team with a focus on engaging, developing and supporting staff and volunteers to provide high quality after-school hours programs we have become known for in the local community,” Bueno said in a news release. “We are most grateful that the advisers of the Ed and Dollie Lynch Fund understand our immediate need and the potential of our long-term vision. This gift is a critical pa...

ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands — More than two years after back-to-back hurricanes ravaged this tropical island, medical workers are still treating gunshot wounds in hallways and kidney failure in a trailer. They ignore their own inflamed rashes that they say are caused by the mold that has shut down an entire hospital floor below a still-porous roof. At least they have a hospital. The lone medical center on Vieques, an idyllic island that is part of Puerto Rico, was severely damaged by Hurricanes Maria and Irma , then abandoned to wandering roosters and grazing horses. Ailing people wait at the ferry dock to catch a boat to the mainland. Two years on, “we are in the same situation as we were in the days after the hurricane,” said Rafael Surillo Ruiz, the mayor of Yabucoa, on Puerto Rico’s hard-hit eastern edge . An examination of Federal Emergency Management Agency data and records demonstrates the degree to which the recovery from Hurricanes Maria and Irma on America’s Caribbe...