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Recognizing the Progress Made on World AIDS Day

On December 1, the world acknowledged World AIDS Day, which was first held in 1988 and is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, support people living with HIV, and commemorate those who have died.

A lot has changed since the first cases of what would become known as AIDS were reported in 1981. Today, there are treatments available that work as both treatment and prevention, and being diagnosed with the disease.

But there is still a long way to go to completely eradicate the disease in the US. There are 50,000 individuals newly infected with HIV each year in the US, and approximately 1 in 8 of the 1.2 million currently infected do not know their status, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

However, ending the HIV/AIDS pandemic is possible through the use of antiretroviral therapy (ART), an array of prevention tools including pre-exposure prophylaxis, and the elimination of mother-to-child HIV transmission.

“On this World AIDS Day, there is considerable optimism that an end to the HIV/AIDS pandemic is achievable,” Anthony S. Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID); Carl Dieffenbach, PhD, director of the Division of AIDS at NIAID; and Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, director of the NIH, released in a statement. “However, to do this, we must have the will to apply established scientific findings and continue to follow the science. We must build on the promising achievements made through the dedication of researchers, health care professionals and clinical trial participants, and continue to work together to fill the gaps that remain.”

Dr Fauci and Hilary D. Marston, MD, MPH, policy advisor for global health at NIAID, recently co-wrote an article in New England Journal of Medicine and made the case for using ART not just in the treatment of AIDS, but also in prevention. The results from 3 key trials from 2006 to 2015 found that using ART as a prevention “could dramatically reduce the incidence of HIV infection.”

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  • National Centenarian Day – Living to 100
  • New York Company To Offer World’s First Kosher Medical Marijuana
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  • Acknowledging the Tireless Work of Physicians on National Doctor’s Day
  • American Cancer Society Reveals New Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations
  • De Blasio Releases Details of Turnaround Plan For NYC Health & Hospitals
  • De Blasio Unveils $850 Million Mental Health Roadmap
  • Dietary Supplements Send 23,000 People To EDs Each Year
  • EHR and ICD-10 Explained
  • Family Medicine Residency Program At New York – Presbyterian To Remain Open
  • Family Medicine Residency Program At New York – Presbyterian To Remain Open
  • Filipino Nurses and Related Articles
  • Financial Burden of Dementia
  • Growing Role of Nurses and Progress on Future of Nursing Recommendations
  • Health Effects of Hurricane Katrina – Five Years Later
  • Health Republic Closing Today (November 30, 2015)
  • Health Republic Insurance of New York Co-Op to Close
  • HHS Projects 10 Million People Will Have ACA Coverage By End Of 2016
  • ICD-9 to ICD-10 Translator
  • Implantable Device Can Be Remotely Controlled to Deliver Drugs
  • Increasing Trend In Graduating Nurses
  • Legionnaires’ Outbreak in South Bronx Claims 8 Lives
  • National Centenarian Day – Living to 100
  • New York Company To Offer World’s First Kosher Medical Marijuana
  • NPs Joining Primary Care Increases
  • Nurse Practitioners Gain More Autonomy in New York in 2015
  • Nurse Practitioners Provide Quality Care to Diabetes Patients
  • Nurses Improving Outcomes, Saving Money
  • Nursing Home Rating to Be Overhauled
  • Nursing Organizations Push for Legislation to Reauthorize Workforce Programs
  • NYPD Study Shows Increased Cancer Rates In 9/11 Ground Zero First Responder Police
  • Personalized Breast Cancer Screening
  • Pharma Payments to Nurse Practitioners Absent from Open Payments Database
  • Planet Fitness To Stop Offering “Unlimited” Indoor Tanning As Part Of Settlement With New York AG
  • Recognizing the Progress Made on World AIDS Day
  • Resource
  • Sodium Warnings Will Appear On Menus In New York City
  • Study: Women Who Use Contraceptive Implant 10 Times More Likely To Need Additional Surgery
  • Teen Births In US Are Declining
  • The Eden Prescription
  • Use Of Antipsychotic Medications Increasing Among Seniors
  • Veterans Health Care
  • Zika Virus Precautions in Long Island
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