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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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Infecções por HIV , Estigma Social , Humanos , Infecções por HIV/psicologia , Infecções por HIV/epidemiologia , Estados Unidos , Congressos como Assunto , ReligiãoRESUMO
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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Infecções por HIV , Minorias Sexuais e de Gênero , Humanos , Infecções por HIV/epidemiologia , Infecções por HIV/prevenção & controle , Infecções por HIV/psicologia , Minorias Sexuais e de Gênero/psicologia , Estados Unidos/epidemiologia , Estigma Social , Masculino , Feminino , Meios de Comunicação de MassaRESUMO
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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Infecções por HIV , Humanos , Infecções por HIV/prevenção & controle , Infecções por HIV/etnologia , Aprendizagem , Fortalecimento Institucional/organização & administração , Liderança , Feminino , Masculino , Grupo AssociadoRESUMO
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 ou Afro-Americano , Infecções por HIV , Estigma Social , Humanos , North Carolina , Infecções por HIV/etnologia , Negro ou Afro-Americano/psicologia , Feminino , Masculino , Desenvolvimento de Programas , Adulto , Pessoa de Meia-IdadeAssuntos
Negro ou Afro-Americano , Infecções por HIV , Hispânico ou Latino , Humanos , Infecções por HIV/etnologia , Infecções por HIV/prevenção & controle , Infecções por HIV/epidemiologia , Hispânico ou Latino/estatística & dados numéricos , Avaliação de Programas e Projetos de Saúde , Epidemias/prevenção & controle , Fortalecimento Institucional/organização & administraçãoRESUMO
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.
