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Palm Beach County HIV cases jump 50 percent this year
Palm Beach Post, Wednesday, November 26, 2008 — The number of new HIV infections reported in Palm Beach County leaped 50 percent this year, ending years of drops. Since January 2008, the Palm Beach County Health Department reports 393 new HIV infections have been reported, up from 224 cases in 2007. The trend reversal began last year, when cases increased over 2006, but this 50 percent jump is more dramatic and reflects a change statewide, according to health department records. …
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Many Americans With HIV Don't Know They Have It
NPR Morning Edition, Monday, November 24, 2008 — AIDS experts and federal health officials are frustrated by the failure to reach what they consider an achievable goal: identifying the hundreds of thousands of Americans who are infected with HIV but don't know it. "More than 20 percent of people with HIV — more than 200,000 people — are unaware they're infected," says Kenneth Mayer of Brown University. …
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Higher Risk Of Certain Non-AIDS Cancers Being Recorded In HIV-Positive People
Medical News Today, Thursday, November 20, 2008 — Physicians in the U.S. are reporting a higher risk for certain types of cancers — such as liver, head, neck and lung — in people living with HIV/AIDS, raising concerns that a cancer epidemic is imminent in the population, the Baltimore Sun reports. According to the Sun, Meredith Shiels, a doctoral candidate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, presented a paper on Tuesday at the seventh annual American Association for Cancer Research International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research that said people living with HIV are twice as likely as the general population to develop cancers not previously linked with the virus. Other studies have found that people living with HIV have as much as a 10 times greater chance of developing certain cancers compared with the general population.
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AIDS Woes in Black America
HIVPlusMag.com, Thursday, Novemebr 20, 2008 — If African-Americans were collected together as a new nation, "Black America" would have an AIDS problem on a par with many African nations, according to a report released by the Black AIDS Institute. Titled "Left Behind: Black America — A Neglected Priority in the Global AIDS Epidemic," the report shows "Black America" would have the 16th-highest number of HIV-positive people in the world — 600,000 — more than even such hard-hit sub-Saharan African countries as Botswana, Namibia, and Rwanda. …
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HIV infection estimated at 1.1 million in U.S.
Charlotte Observer, Friday, October 3, 2008 — New estimates of the prevalence of HIV infection among adolescents and adults in the United States put the total number of cases in 2006 — diagnosed and undiagnosed — at about 1.1 million. The figure means the infection rate is nearly 550 people for every 100,000 in the population. The total is similar to 2003 estimates, but officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say improved surveillance and new methods for calculating the estimates mean the two can't be directly compared. …
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World AIDS Day 2008 is December 1. Please join Big Bend Cares in this annual, worldwide day of observance. Please visit the World AIDS Day site for information about Big Bend Cares' World AIDS Day events.
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CHILDREN DO NOT HAVE TO BE INFECTED with HIV or have AIDS to be affected by the disease. Every year, children of parents living with HIV and AIDS do not have a happy holiday season due to the financial burden that often goes with a family member's struggle to survive. This year, please be a Holiday Angel.
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BIG BEND CARES LOVES ITS VOLUNTEERS! We have tons of opportunities this fall for volunteers to roll up their sleeves and help out in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
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