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DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:=0D=0AMEDIA ADVISORY						=0D=0AFor T=
uesday, April 28 2009					=0D=0A=0D=0ACONTACTS:=0D=0ARakesh Singh, Kaiser, =
(650) 234-9232, rsingh@kff.org=0D=0ARSVP to Tiffany Ford Fields, tford@kff.=
org (202) 347-5270=0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0AThe 2009 Survey of Americans on HIV/AID=
S:  Implications for the Domestic HIV/AIDS Crisis=0D=0ADC Briefing to Relea=
se Poll About Americans=92 Attitudes, Knowledge, and Experiences=0D=0A=0D=
=0AOn Tuesday, April 28, the Kaiser Family Foundation is hosting a briefing=
 to release the 2009 Survey of Americans on HIV/AIDS.  The new survey of th=
e American public is the seventh major survey conducted by the Foundation o=
n the issue since 1995.  As Foundation President Drew Altman noted in his r=
ecent Pulling It Together column on the Foundation=92s website, the survey =
finds that the public=92s attention to and sense of urgency about the HIV/A=
IDS epidemic in the U.S. has fallen considerably, with the share naming HIV=
/AIDS as the nation=92s most urgent health problem down precipitously since=
 1995, and the share saying they have heard a lot about HIV/AIDS in the U.S=
. now less than half of what it was five years ago.  =0D=0A=0D=0AWhat is th=
e public=92s appetite for federal spending on HIV/AIDS?  Do they think prog=
ress has been made on the disease?  What are people=92s personal experience=
s with HIV/AIDS?  What do the survey findings tell us about HIV-related sti=
gma?  How do experiences with and attitudes towards HIV/AIDS differ among g=
roups that have been harder-hit by the epidemic, such as African Americans,=
 Latinos, and young adults?  What is the public=92s sense of personal risk?=
  What are the trend data on HIV testing?  These questions and many others =
will be addressed in the presentation and discussion of the survey findings=
.  Kaiser researchers who conducted the survey will be joined by two distin=
guished panelists:  Jeff Crowley, Director of the Office of National AIDS P=
olicy, from The White House and Brenda Wilson, Science and Health Correspon=
dent and Editor, from National Public Radio.=0D=0A=0D=0ATuesday, April 28, =
Barbara Jordan Conference Center, 1330 G Street, NW, Washington, D.C.=0D=0A=
=0D=0A12:15 pm 	Registration and Lunch =0D=0A=0D=0A12:30 pm 	Introduction a=
nd Presentations=0D=0A=0D=0ADrew Altman, Ph.D., President and Chief Executi=
ve Officer, Kaiser Family Foundation =0D=0A=0D=0A		Mollyann Brodie, Ph.D., =
Vice President and Director, Public Opinion and Survey Research, =0D=0A		Ka=
iser Family Foundation=0D=0A=0D=0A		Elizabeth Hamel, Associate Director, Pu=
blic Opinion and Survey Research, =0D=0A		Kaiser Family Foundation=0D=0A=0D=
=0A12:50 pm 	Perspectives=0D=0A=0D=0A	Jeff Crowley, Director, Office of Nat=
ional AIDS Policy and Senior Advisor on Disability Policy,=0D=0A The White =
House=0D=0A=0D=0A	Brenda Wilson, Correspondent/Editor, Science and Health, =
National Public Radio=0D=0A=0D=0A1:45 pm 	Adjourn=0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0A
SUMMARY;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Kaiser Family Foundation Briefing to Rele=
ase 2009 Survey of Americans on HIV/AIDS
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