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GLAAD in partnership with the Gilead COMPASS Initiative® Coordinating Centers conducted a three-day summit to address the HIV epidemic in the Southern region of the United States. The summit featured virtual panel discussions with HIV experts, faith leaders, community advocates, and entertainers to bring about conversation and change around HIV stigma.
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Infecciones por VIH , Estigma Social , Humanos , Infecciones por VIH/psicología , Infecciones por VIH/epidemiología , Estados Unidos , Congresos como Asunto , ReligiónRESUMEN
The Gilead COMPASS Initiative® used celebrity partnerships to highlight HIV prevalence in the Southern U.S. and support Southern HIV and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) organizations. Using various media platforms, HIV organizations engaged with popular culture in collaboration with national media advocacy and public relations organizations to campaign against stigmatization and raise awareness about HIV.
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Infecciones por VIH , Minorías Sexuales y de Género , Humanos , Infecciones por VIH/epidemiología , Infecciones por VIH/prevención & control , Infecciones por VIH/psicología , Minorías Sexuales y de Género/psicología , Estados Unidos/epidemiología , Estigma Social , Masculino , Femenino , Medios de Comunicación de MasasRESUMEN
Southern community-based organizations often lack adequate resources to implement high-quality, culturally appropriate HIV programs and services. Shared learning communities (SLCs) combine in-depth training, tailored coaching, and peer-to-peer learning to strengthen HIV programs and services. This paper describes five SLCs, participant characteristics, and their capacity-building components.
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Infecciones por VIH , Humanos , Infecciones por VIH/prevención & control , Infecciones por VIH/etnología , Aprendizaje , Creación de Capacidad/organización & administración , Liderazgo , Femenino , Masculino , Grupo ParitarioRESUMEN
This report from the field describes the development of the HIV & Faith Ambassadors Program to cultivate a cohort of Black faith leaders/communities and Black medical providers to address HIV-related stigma in African American faith communities in North Carolina.
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Negro o Afroamericano , Infecciones por VIH , Estigma Social , Humanos , North Carolina , Infecciones por VIH/etnología , Negro o Afroamericano/psicología , Femenino , Masculino , Desarrollo de Programa , Adulto , Persona de Mediana EdadAsunto(s)
Negro o Afroamericano , Infecciones por VIH , Hispánicos o Latinos , Humanos , Infecciones por VIH/etnología , Infecciones por VIH/prevención & control , Infecciones por VIH/epidemiología , Hispánicos o Latinos/estadística & datos numéricos , Evaluación de Programas y Proyectos de Salud , Epidemias/prevención & control , Creación de Capacidad/organización & administraciónRESUMEN
Antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections are a vexing global health problem and have rendered ineffective many previously-used antibiotics. Here we demonstrate that antibiotic-linkage to surface-functionalized silica nanoparticles (sNP) significantly enhances their effectiveness against Escherichia coli, and Staphylococcus aureus, and even methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains that are resistant to most antibiotics. The commonly-used antibiotic penicillin-G (PenG) was complexed to dye-labeled sNPs (15 nm diameter) containing carboxyl groups located as either surface-functional groups, or on polymer-chains extending from surfaces. Both sNPs configurations efficiently killed bacteria, including MRSA strains. This suggests that activities of currently-ineffective antibiotics can be restored by nanoparticle-complexation and used to avert certain forms of antibiotic-resistance.