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  • Making Medicaid Managed Care Work:  An Action Plan for Persons Living with HIV

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    Making Medicaid Managed Care Work: An Action Plan for Persons Living with HIV This report, by the National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA) with support from The Kaiser Family Foundation, describes nine key points for people living with HIV to keep in mind when trying to influence the development of a managed care system that will serve them effectively. Senator John Chafee (R-RI), an acknowledged ally of NAPWA, gratefully accepted the report upon its…

  • The Kaiser Survey About Public Knowledge and Attitudes About STDs Other Than AIDS

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    A summary and toplines from a national survey conducted for the Foundation by Market Facts, Inc. of public knowledge about STDs overall and their attitudes towards policy options to confront the spread of STDs. This survey was released at a briefing on Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Exposing the Epidemic. SUMMARY REPORT Download TOPLINE Download

  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases in America:  Exposing the Epidemic – Main Page

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    Sexually Transmitted Diseases in America: Exposing the Epidemic Provides some context about the STD epidemic, including taking a closer look at the prevalence of STDs in the United States, the long-term health consequences, and the public and private responses tothe epidemic, particularly, innovations in prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Fact Sheet Q&A Resource List Resource List

  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases in America: Exposing the Epidemic – Resource List

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    Sexually Transmitted Diseases In America: Exposing the Epidemic November 20, 1996 Briefing Participants: Peggy ClarkePresidentAmerican Social Health AssociationP.O. Box 13827Research Triangle Park, NC27709919/361-8400Press contact: Sharon Broom919/361-8416 Jacqueline Darroch Forrest, Ph.D.Vice President for ResearchThe Alan Guttmacher Institute120 Wall StreetNew York, NY 10005Press Contact: Susan Tew212/248-1111 ext. 208 Helene D. Gayle, M.D., M.P.H.Director, National Center forHIV, STD,and TB PreventionCenters for Disease Control and Prevention MSEO71600 Clifton RoadAtlanta, GA 30333Press contact: Melissa Shepard404/639-8890 Penelope Hitchcock, D.V.M., M.S.Chief, STD…

  • The AIDS Litigation Project III: A Look at HIV/AIDS in the Courts of the 1990’s – Report

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    The AIDS Litigation Project III: A Look at HIV/AIDS in the Courts of the 1990's This study compiles and analyzes 310 cases decided in state and federal U.S. courts since January 1991 in which AIDS or HIV was an important aspect of the facts presented. The review includes cases reported in state and federal courts as of June 1996, classified, summarized, and evaluated according to subject matter. The report was released at a joint briefing…

  • The AIDS Litigation Project III: A Look at HIV/AIDS in the Courts of the 1990’s – Main Page

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    THE AIDS LITIGATION PROJECT III: A Look at HIV/AIDS in the Courts of the 1990s Supported by a grant from the Kaiser Family Foundation FOREWORD ACKNOWLEDGMENTS METHODOLOGY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AIDS Education Protection of the Blood Supply Public Health Powers and Epidemiological Surveillance State Restrictions on Persons: Criminal Law Private Tort Actions Duty to Protect Workers Administration of Justice Family Law Privacy and Confidentiality Discrimination The Rights of Vulnerable Persons: Prisoners The Rights of Vulnerable Persons:…

  • The AIDS Litigation Project III: A Look at HIV/AIDS in the Courts of the 1990’s

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    THE AIDS LITIGATION PROJECT IIIA Look at HIV/AIDS in the Courts of the 1990s Principal Investigator: Lawrence O. Gostin, J.D., LL.D. (Hon.) Professor of Law, and Co-Director, Georgetown/Johns Hopkins University Program on Law and Public Health Co-Principal Investigator: Zita Lazzarini, J.D., M.P.H. Harvard School of Public of Public Health Research Associate: Kathleen Flaherty, J.D. Georgetown/Johns Hopkins University Program on Law and Public Health Research Assistant: Robert Scherer, (J.D. candidate, 1997) Georgetown/Johns Hopkins University Program on…

  • Covering the Epidemic: AIDS in the News Media, 1985-1996

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    Media Coverage Of AIDS: Broad-Based, Consistent Over Past Decade Focus Shifts, However, From Science/Medicine to Celebrity-Oriented Embargoed for release until: 9:00 a.m. E.T., Wednesday, June 26, 1996 Contact: Matt James or Tina Hoff Washington, D.C. -- Media coverage in the U.S. of AIDS over the past decade has generally remained broad-based and consistent, emphasizing prevention and protection and avoiding becoming overly politicized, although focusing almost entirely on the epidemic as a domestic concern. However, while…

  • Covering the Epidemic: AIDS in the News Media, 1985-1996

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    Media Coverage Of AIDS: Broad-Based, Consistent Over Past Decade Focus Shifts, However, From Science/Medicine to Celebrity-Oriented Embargoed for release until: 9:00 a.m. E.T., Wednesday, June 26, 1996 Contact: Matt James or Tina Hoff Washington, D.C. -- Media coverage in the U.S. of AIDS over the past decade has generally remained broad-based and consistent, emphasizing prevention and protection and avoiding becoming overly politicized, although focusing almost entirely on the epidemic as a domestic concern. However, while…

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    A national effort to provide the latest informationon AIDS policy, prevention and treatmentReducing the Spread ofHIV Who's At Risk? Can People Change Their Behaviors? Are HIV Prevention Programs Worthwhile? What Programs Work Best? What Challenges Remain? What Needs to Be Done? Who's At Risk?HIV is a disease of behaviors. For the most part, it is what you do that puts you at risk of AIDS.The basic routes of transmission--unprotected sex, sharing contaminated drug injectionequipment, from…