HHSWatch is a watchdog newsletter that monitors and reports on
activities related to HIV prevention at Health and Human Services
agencies, including CDC, NIH, HRSA and SAMHSA.
JANUARY 2009
Demanding a National AIDS Strategy
• Taking Action
• Creating a National AIDS Strategy with Impact
• Traveler's Notes: AIDS Advocacy in the Age of Obama
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SEPTEMBER 2008
• Where's Our National Campaign Against Homophobia?
• Spit and Other "Deadly Weapons"
• The United States' HIV Immigration Travel Ban Eliminated? Not So Fast!
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MAY 2008
• Preparing for the New U.S. HIV Incidence Estimate: Talking Points for Community Organizers
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JANUARY 2008
• It's Getting To Be A Bad Habit
• THe Vaccine We Have Already: More Trials and Tribulations
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SEPTEMBER 2007
• Herpes Suppression: It All Seemed So Simple
• Diaphragms: A Strangely Permeable Wall
• Cellulose Sulfate: Two Times More HIV, or Not
• Abstinence: Saying No Over and Over Again
• Congress: Despite the Bad Reviews, Abstinence Continues its Run
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JULY 2007
• The CDC Tests the Waters
• New Dissent on HIV Testing Policy
• Congress Abandons HIV Prevention
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APRIL 2007
• New African American Initiative Gropes for a New Direction
• Abstinence-Only Educators Scramble to Prove their Worth
• Teen Pregnancy Declines: Birth Control or Just Say No?
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March 2007
A Microbicide Conundrum
Minority AIDS Initiative Crisis
Prevention Takes to the Red Carpet at CROI
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January 2007
Plan? Did Somebody Say We Had a Plan?
Needle Exchange: The Ban Plays On
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December 2006
An Alternative PATHWAY for Global HIV Prevention
PEPFAR Prevention Faces Growing Opposition
Circumcision: Another Option Long Ignored
Reauthorization at the Last Minute
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November 2006
SPECIAL FOCUS ON CONGRESS:
Hoping for a tidal wave, settling for the tidal drift
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October 2006
HEADING FOR THE FALL:
Ryan White Reauthorization: Losing the Sense of Community
New CDC Testing Guidelines: Leaving the Future to Take Care of Itself
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September 2006
SPECIAL EDITION ON HIV TESTING:
Commentary on upcoming CDC testing guidelines by David Gilden, Walt Senterfitt
Update on House bills on prison-based testing
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June 2006
PEMS Takes a Break
A Vaccine for Girls Only – What about Boys, Women?
The Ever Strengthening Case for Condom Protection
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MAY 2006
Preparing for PREP
Managing Microbicides
Fewer trials, more tribulations
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MARCH 2006
The Ingredients of a Potent HIV Prevention Recipe
Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council Meeting
Report from the 2006 Retrovirus Conference
PEMS Breakthrough
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DECEMBER 2005: SPECIAL EDITION:
New CDC Evaluation Program:
Rube Goldberg Meets Big Brother
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November 2005
In this issue:
Condom Label Changes Raise Controversy
Maine Rejects Abstinence Funding
Quality of Abstinence Programs Challenged
PEPFAR and Condom Shortage in Uganda
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September 2005
In this issue:
meeting the needs of people with HIV impacted by Hurricane Katrina
issues of prevention in Ryan White CARE Act reauthorization
cost-effectiveness data that contradicts the priorities of CDC’s Advancing HIV Prevention initiative
interpretation of recent data on circumcision as a potential HIV prevention intervention
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JULY 2005: SPECIAL EDITION:
Condom Effectiveness Reviewed, Revised & Reduxed
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JUNE 2005
In this issue:
• HPV Vaccine on the Way – but for Whom?
• Congressional “Witch-hunt” Targets Harm Reduction Proponents
• ACLU suit aims to stop Silver Ring Thing
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April 2005
In this issue:
• 4parents.gov spreads misinformation to parents and kids
• Bush nominates Whitewater team member as Deputy Secretary of HHS
• AIDS Foundation of Chicago crafts state plan for progressive prison policies
• CDC post-exposure prophylaxis recommendations questioned
• Condom-burning minister testifies in favor of PEPFAR abstinence-only funding
• Do Prevention With Positives programs risk criminalization of people with HIV?
and more!
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March 2005
In this issue:
• ONGOING CONCERNS ABOUT DEBI PROGRAMS AND IMPLEMENTATION
• TELL CDC WHAT YOU THINK OF PEMS
• VERMONT ORGANIZATION JUST SAYS NO TO CDC RESTRICTIONS
• CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS TARGET HARM REDUCTION
• CDC/HRSA ADVISORY COMMITTEE NAMES NEW MEMBERS
• SAMHSA BOWS TO PRESSURE, REINSTATES 'LGBT' TO WORKSHOP TITLE
and more!
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