By: Abiola Ogunbiyi, MS III—Trinity School of Medicine Activate advocacy from within As an AMSA summer intern, I was truly able to utilize my voice and activate advocacy from a place of knowledge and excitement. Over the past few months, I have learned so much about syringe service programs (SSPs), harm reduction and the…
Tag: HIV
Connecting the Dots: AIDS Advocacy at Home and Abroad
By: Mariah Gray I met the little orphan boy in his home in an Addis Ababa slum. He lived there with his older sister – or maybe she was just a kind town girl that took him in. Regardless, she was young, she was his caretaker, and she was living with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)….
When to initiate treatment in patients with HIV
Figure 1 Quiz of the Week A 60-year-old man who is HIV positive presents with fever, dyspnea, and inflammatory lesions on the skin. A biopsy reveals a diagnosis of histoplasmosis. Image credit: @BiBiRamos. #AIDS15. Answer: Any CD4 count The WHO now recommends ART should be started at any CD4 count. Early initiation of ART can…
World AIDS Day: December 1
End isolation. End stigma. End HIV transmission. World AIDS Day is approaching this Friday, December 1, and this year’s theme is #LetsEndIt. What is World AIDS Day? World AIDS Day is a global health day that takes place every year on December 1. According to the National AIDS Trust, it’s an “opportunity for people worldwide…
