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03/11/2022

Health care providers: Starting the conversation about is an important step in protecting your female patients from HIV. Access CDC’s updated PrEP Guidance: https://bit.ly/34Td5Gv.

03/11/2022

What are personal Pronouns ad why do they matter?

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03/10/2022

Knowing your HIV status puts the power in your hands. Take charge of your health and get tested this National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day! https://bit.ly/3HX6PfK

03/10/2022

Today is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, a day to address the impact of HIV on women and girls. When we reduce HIV stigma and promote testing, prevention, and treatment for women, we can help . https://bit.ly/3HOEx6X

CDC's Let's Stop HIV Together campaign offers resources about HIV testing, prevention, treatment, and stigma. You can watch videos and download materials to share.

03/10/2022

PrEP is for women too! This National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, talk to your doctor about taking PrEP, a medicine that can reduce your risk of getting HIV. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3sJWmxP.

02/16/2022

Estimates suggest the initial omicron variant is up to four times more transmissible than previous COVID variants — and the newest omicron subvariant (BA.2) may be even more contagious than that. That seems to track within households as well. In early December, British health officials estimated that the risk of spreading omicron within a household was three times higher than with the delta variant.

Here's what experts know right now about the likelihood that everyone will get sick if one person is infected with the omicron variant of the coronavirus.

02/16/2022

Join us as on Feb 22nd at 7:00 pm EST we continue our virtual engagement with a conversation on Effective Engagement of Elected Officials, featuring guest speakers Matthew Rose, Victoria Kirby York and Cameron D. Anderson-Harvey!

02/15/2022

02/14/2022

"Immunity to Covid-19 could be lost in months, UK study suggests," a headline from The Guardian alerted back in July 2020. "King's College London team found steep drops in patients' antibody levels three months after infection," the story warned.

But that idea was based on preliminary data from the laboratory — and on a faulty understanding of how the immune system works. Now about a year and a half later, better data is painting a more optimistic picture about immunity after a bout of COVID-19. In fact, a symptomatic infection triggers a remarkable immune response in the general population, likely offering protection against severe disease and death for a few years.

Scientists are beginning to come up with answers to the question of how long antibodies from an infection can protect you — and what they'll protect you from.

02/11/2022

When COVID shut down normal life in March 2020, few people imagined they’d find themselves still in the throes of a pandemic in a couple of weeks, let alone after two years. But once again, the country has reached a grim milestone this month, with 900,000 COVID-related deaths as of Friday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

“This country normalizes mass deaths in this pandemic. … This country has failed to even begin to process what it means to lose 900,000 of our neighbors.”

02/10/2022

With so many questions about COVID-19 and everyone stuck at home, those services were in high demand. Kangovi had to figure out how to reorganize her entire operation so that her team could do the job safely. She also felt as if that moment could be a huge opportunity for her cause to gain wider public recognition and support.

For a Philadelphia physician, rest seemed out of the question during the early part of the pandemic—but long COVID taught her how to listen to her body and finally slow down.