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NEWS RELEASEApril 9, 2012 NEW YORK, N.Y. — The fourth annual GYT: Get Yourself Tested campaign kicks off National STD Awareness Month (April) with new initiatives on-air, online, and on the ground at college campuses and in more than 5,000 health centers across the nation.
This issue brief provides a broad-based grounding in adolescent health and related policy by examining access to health services for adolescents, their insurance coverage, and the role of state and federal policies in shaping access to care. The brief also discusses how implementation of the the health reform law may affect health coverage, access, and incentives to use preventive care for adolescents.
After much heated debate on the U.S. debt limit, the Budget Control Act of 2011 was passed on August 2, 2011, containing more than $900 billion in federal spending reductions over 10 years. The law also established the 12-person “super committee” charged with finding more than $1 trillion in additional savings.
This video explores the powerful force that media can be in the lives of teens and tweens. The three young people who are profiled explain what types of media they use—such as smart phones, computers, TV, video games—how much time they spend with media and what impact it has on their lives.
Black Americans account for more HIV and AIDS cases, people estimated to be living with AIDS, and HIV-related deaths than any other racial/ethnic group in the U.S. Today, Black Americans make up about 12 percent of the U.S. population, but account for half of all new AIDS cases.
WEBCASTING In collaboration with the International AIDS Society, the Toronto Local Host and co-organizers of the conference, Kaiser provides free, online access to the archived conference proceedings to NGOs, news organizations, policymakers, researchers and others on kaisernetwork.org.
This chart pack is a supplemental report based on a subset of the Survey of Americans on HIV/AIDS and provides additional analysis on public opinion on HIV testing. A full survey report, including full question wording for results presented in this report is available here. Chartpack (.
This chartpack is a supplemental report based on a subset of the Survey of Americans on HIV/AIDS and provides additional analysis on the opinions and experiences of 18- to 25-year-olds on HIV/AIDS. A full survey report, including full question wording for results presented in this report is available here. Chartpack (.
This new chartpack provides an overview of major trends in the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States. Chartpack (.
June 5, 2006, marks twenty-five years since the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued its first warning about an emerging illness that soon became known as AIDS.
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