HIV

Date: 09/20/2011

Contributor: Karen Brown

Physicians and AIDS activists are wrangling over a bill that would revise how patients are tested for HIV. Karen Brown reports.

PREVENTION IS LOSING GROUND

Date: 01/13/2006

by: Francesca Rheannon

Efforts to prevent the spread of HIV among Latinos in our region seem to be failing. The rate of new infections has remained steady and those who treat HIV patients think they're only catching a minority of the actual cases. Part...

LATINA WOMEN AT INCREASING RISK

Date: 01/13/2006

by: Francesca Rheannon

In the Latino communities of Holyoke and Springfield, HIV is increasingly striking women. In those cities, women comprise up to half of those infected with HIV. Overall in Massachusetts, Latina women are seventeen times more likely...

Date: 01/13/2006

by: Francesca Rheannon

In the fight against HIV, needle exchange programs have been proposed as one means of preventing the virus from spreading. But they can be controversial. Part Three of Voices of HIV reports on Hartford's innovative needle exchange...

A MODEL TREATMENT PROGRAM

Date: 01/13/2006

by: Francesca Rheannon

Each year, some 5000 inmates pass through the gates of the Hampden County Correctional Facility, a medium security jail in Ludlow, Massachusetts. Many are at high risk for infectious diseases like HIV and of bringing them to the...

Date: 01/13/2006

by: Francesca Rheannon

HIV infection rates among Latino teens in Holyoke are almost three times higher than the average for other teens in the state. Part Five of Voices of HIV reports on how HIV is affecting Latino youth in that city and what they are...

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