HIV TESTING POLICIES
Kim Nichols, African Services Committee
Prevention Justice Seminar
November 8, 2004
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Kim Nichols is Co-Executive Director at African Services Committee. Kim Nichols’ professional training is in infectious disease epidemiology, and in nutritional biochemistry. She has a wealth of experience in community health programs design, development, implementation, and evaluation. Her policy interests include development of NGO (non-governmental organization) capacity for HIV/AIDS programming, and debt cancellation in impoverished nations as a source of funding for HIV/AIDS control efforts.
She has been involved in both New York City and global AIDS advocacy for the past 18 years, and has served in that capacity on many panels and committees to advance information about the HIV-related needs of African communities. She is currently an NGO board member of UNAIDS and of Aidspan. She is an NGO delegate to the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria. She serves on the Steering Committee of the AIDS Drug Assistance Program of the New York State Department of Health
Recommended Readings
HIV Testing Policies
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I. HIV Testing: Fact Sheet, The Body.
www.thebody.com/nmai/pdfs/testing.pdf
II. Common Questions about HIV Testing and Counseling: Fact Sheet, The Body.
www.thebody.com/aawh/force99/questionsHIV.html
III. Advancing HIV Prevention: New Strategies for a Changing Epidemic
www.cdc.gov/hiv/partners/QuickFacts.htm
IV. Quick Facts: Advancing HIV Prevention. CDC.
www.cdc.gov/hiv/partners/QuickFacts.htm
V. FDA Approves First Oral Fluid Based Rapid HIV Test Kit, March 26, 2004, U.S. Food and Drug Administration:
www.thebody.com/fda/oral_test.html
VI. Back to Basics: Making HIV Testing Routine by Mark Wagner. In IAPAC Monthly
August 2003, Volume 9, Number 8
www.thebody.com/iapac/aug03/testing.html
VII. A Community Perspective on HIV Testing and Counseling by Kim Nichols.
VIII. UNAIDS/WHO Policy Statement on HIV Testing, June 2004.
IX. Ensuring a Public Health Impact of Programs to Reduce HIV Transmission from Mothers to Infants: The Place of Voluntary Counseling and Testing. Bassett, M.T. In American Journal of Public Health, March 2002, Vol. 92, No. 3.
X. Anonymous and Confidential HIV Testing Policies, 2004. Kaiser Family Foundation
www.statehealthfacts.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi?action=compare&category=HIV%2fAIDS&subcategory=HIV+Testing&topic=Anonymous%2fConfidential+Testing
XI. HIV Testing for Mothers and New Borns 2002, Kaiser Family Foundation.
www.statehealthfacts.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi?action=compare&category=HIV%2fAIDS&subcategory=HIV+Testing&topic=HIV+Testing+for+Mothers+and+Newborns
XII. Percentage of persons aged 18-64 who reported having received an HIV Test in the preceeding 12 months, 2001.
www.statehealthfacts.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi?action=compare&category=HIV%2fAIDS&subcategory=HIV+Testing&topic=HIV+Testing+Rate+%2d+Past+12+Months
