Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Caribbean To Launch Regional HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy

Caribbean To Launch Regional HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy

Caribbean nations will establish national HIV/AIDS workplace policies as soon as a regional policy modeled after International Labour Organization guidelines is ready, the Jamaica Observer reports. According to Carl Browne, director of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS who spoke at the XVII International AIDS Conference earlier this month, the organization will work with individual countries to implement national workplace policies tailored to specific needs with the goal of benefitting employees and their families.

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Washington Prime Example Of Ineffective Youth HIV/AIDS Education

A recent Washington Times opinion piece "highlights important statistics about the AIDS epidemic" in Washington, D.C., as well as the "need for more prevention education," Richard Urban of Urban Life Training and Reality Assessment Teen Choice writes in a Times letter to the editor. However, although the authors of the opinion piece "offer no prevention plan, it is clear where they are coming from: Abstinence programs are 'ineffective'; prevention programs must be 'evidence-based,' which is code language for 'programs that ...

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Can Eggplant Cure Skin Cancer?

There is new hope for skin cancer treatment, says internationally known scientist in his book The Eggplant Cancer Cure.

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HIV/AIDS Advocates In Georgia To Improve Outreach Efforts

HIV/AIDS advocates in Georgia have become concerned that "[o]ld messages geared to urban, white, gay men simply don't resonate with many" black, rural, women and young people, who now are the "new face" of HIV/AIDS in the state, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. According to the Journal-Constitution, it is becoming more difficult to reach such high-risk groups with prevention, testing and treatment services.

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