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Dealing with opioid addiction requires pulling all the stops - and that includes holding drug companies accountable.
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Op-ed
We must now direct the kind of bold action we took against AIDS toward the opioid overdose epidemic, the deadliest public health threat in the U.S. today.
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Op-ed
The Trump administration has rejected efforts to equalize health care access and embraced discriminatory policies toward those most impacted by America’s HIV epidemic. Yet it has also launched one of the most ambitious and inspiring health initiatives of our time - assuming Congress funds it.
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Crime
Police say a Maryland man knowingly spread HIV to four women after meeting them on dating sites and apps.
Health
National, state and local health leaders met in Baltimore Wednesday to discuss strategies for ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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Health
Surgeons in Baltimore have performed what's thought to be the world's first kidney transplant from a living donor with HIV, a milestone for patients with the AIDS virus who need a new organ. If other donors with HIV come forward, it could free up space on the transplant waiting list for everyone.
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Health
Baltimore is among dozens of cities and states that the federal government will target to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS. President Donald Trump mentioned the initiative in his State of the Union speech.
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Op-ed
If current HIV diagnoses persist, approximately 1 in 2 black men who have sex with men will be diagnosed with HIV. The rate is 1 in 4 for Latino men who have sex with men and 1 in 11 for white men who have sex with men. Why the discrepancy? Structural inequalities.
The question is: W
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Obituaries
Dr. Frederick W. Schaerf, a psychiatrist and former associate professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, died July 14 from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease, at his home in Fort Myers, Fla.
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Op-ed
While HIV transmission has been significantly reduced over the past decades — especially among people who inject drugs— the recent national surge in opioid misuse threatens to reverse some of these gains. It is critical that that we utilize lessons learned from HIV to address this epidemic.
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Towson
Gilchrist and the Nkoaranga Lutheran Hospital — which provide hospice and palliative care in the United States and Tanzania, respectively — first partnered in 2009.
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Editorial
It's fitting that Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Elijah Cummings are taking the Ryan White Act as inspiration for their legislation to fight opioid addiction and overdoses.
Health
The Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine will lead a $100 million project to survey the impact of HIV programs in Nigeria.
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Politics
Rep. Elijah Cummings of Baltimore and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts are planning to introduce legislation Wednesday that would require $10 billion a year in federal funding to combat the opioid crisis.
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Op-ed
March 24th was also “World TB Day.” You might be asking yourself, “Why should we care about Tuberculosis? This is the United States, TB is a thing of the past, isn’t it?” Unfortunately, no.
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Health
Dr. Robert Redfield, an AIDS expert with the University of Maryland School of Medicine has been appointed the new director of the Centers for Disease Control.
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Carroll County Times Opinion
We have to adopt a pluralistic approach to curtail the mortality and ramifications emanating from this unrelenting opioid crisis. This fatal disease calls for various segments of our society form partnerships, with the goal of meeting drug users “where they’re at."
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Harford County
The six women who were nursing students at Harford Community College last semester and went to Narva, Estonia, to teach HIV prevention, had an opportunity this week to share their experiences with Bel Air town officials.
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Harford County
HCC nursing students traveled to Narva, Estonia, to teach high school students about the importance of safe sex, HIV prevention.
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Op-ed
The Trump administration has reportedly commanded the CDC not to use seven words in next year’s budget documents: diversity, entitlement, evidence-based, fetus, science-based, transgender, vulnerable. When I first read this mandate, I used a word that really shouldn't be used in such documents.
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Health
The new report is the latest measure of how well public health authorities are doing at boosting rates of early diagnosis and care for HIV — goals that will extend life expectancies for patients and reduce the virus’ spread.
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Op-ed
Advertisements for the latest “Saw” movie — “Jigsaw,” set to hit theaters Oct. 27 — take aim at rules imposed by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) that ban most gay and bisexual men from donating blood. They've got a point: The current policy is stigmatizing discriminatory, and unnecessary.
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Baltimore Insider
A Waverly couple combined their shared love of art, the LGBTQ community and "The Golden Girls" into a wedding celebration and art exhibit titled "Miami Is Nice."
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In 1988, dancer Carolyn Kelemen founded a cabaret benefit called "A Labor of Love," to raise money for people with AIDS during a period when the disease was devastating the arts community.
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Arts
The exhibit "Man, Image, Idea: Photographs of Men from the Mark Rice Collection" at University of Maryland Baltimore County focuses on male photography of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Crime
WALDORF, Md. (AP) — An HIV-positive former teachers' aide and track coach described as a "predator" by a Maryland prosecutor is facing more than 100 felony
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Baltimore City
Douglas Memorial and about 120 black churches across the country held a “Day of Unity” Sunday, using the pulpit to urge people to get tested and connecting those who are HIV-positive with services.
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Health
NIH has lined up about 100 hospitals, academic centers and health facilities around the globe to hand out a pill called pitavastatin to HIV patients without signs of cardiovascular disease to see if it prevents heart troubles
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Health
With a sustained emphasis on prevention, detection and treatment, the nation's HIV epidemic could reach the beginning of the end in 2025, according to new projections from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston
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Best academic: Michael Summers, UMBC
Baltimore City Paper
Gay guy here. Met a guy online. He came over. We had incredible sex and then a great conversation lasting several hours. But—and you knew th
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Op-ed
Historically, states of emergency have been used to order government agencies to implement emergency plans and alert citizens to change their normal behavior because of some imminent danger. In order to address Maryland's opioid emergency, unconventional but viable options such as safe consumption spaces must be considered — particularly when we have impressive data from 10 countries that currently operate nearly 100 safe consumptions spaces.
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Three new announcements at the yellow check marks 1. Tobacco free kids, 2. Heart health and 3. Visions and hearing screenings Tobacco-free kids week<
Obituaries
Clare Jean Siegel, 61, an early childhood educator active in Head Start for 32 years, died of cancer Dec. 14 at her Dickeyville home.
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Op-ed
Vision and hearing screenings
The Department of Health's vision and hearing screenings will be held at the following schools and programs for c
Op-ed
Vision and hearing screenings
The Department of Health's vision and hearing screenings will be held at the following schools and programs for c
Health
The years-long effort to build programs in developing parts of the world to combat HIV/AIDS got double boost this week at the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Institute of Human Virology, where officials announced $138 million in new funding and creation of a new Center for International Health, Education and Biosecurity.
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Health
Many of the people most at risk for contracting HIV in Baltimore know nothing about a drug that is 92 percent effective in preventing the virus, research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has found.
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Baltimore City
The Baltimore City Hall dome will be lit up in blue Sunday night in honor of Mother Teresa, who was declared a saint Sunday.
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Health
Prisons and jails can contribute to global epidemics of HIV, viral hepatitis and tuberculosis, and prison inmates and jail detainees have higher rates of those diseases, according to research released Sunday by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Health
Members of Congress will call on federal regulators today to lift a requirement that gay and bisexual men be celibate for a year before donating blood.
Health
The Baltimore City Health Department has started "Baltimore in Conversation," an initiative by the city's health department to better understand the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people and how obstacles they face affect health outcomes. The hope is that shared experiences will help foster better sexual health. Health officials also want to erase the stereotypes and stigma that others may have about the community.
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