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Losing a parent is undoubtedly a traumatic experience for any child. It is an experience that will follow that child, likely playing a larg...

Friday, April 24, 2015

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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

FOADAC NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT

You may never have been hopeless or hungry but at some point we have all had a need met by someone who came along when we needed them. 

That’s why I volunteer and that's why I hope you will join me help the helpless.
You can do that by attending our fundraiser event which will achieve  that.
We are holding our annual fundraising event this summer to help send much needed supplies to children in the orphanages in West Africa.
Many thanks for your anticipated participation
Please visit our website www.foadac.org for more information.
You can also click on the link below to purchase your ticket or support the cause in any small way.
https://eventbrite.com/event/16269044149/

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

The news today !!

In today’s news from the Bloomberg School of Public Health in celebration of Global Health Day and Women’s History Month

In observance of Women's History Month, there is much progress to mark for women and HIV/AIDS in America since the emergence of the epidemic three decades ago. Recently the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that HIV diagnoses among females in the United States declined by 49 percent from 2002 to 2011. Additionally, as a result of effective treatment of HIV-positive pregnant women, mother-to-child transmission of HIV has been virtually eliminated in the U.S.
This progress is no small accomplishment, considering the fact that in the early days of the AIDS epidemic, the scientific and medical community failed to recognize women as a target population for research, and they were excluded from clinical trials of HIV/AIDS medications and preventive interventions. This omission proved to be a major public health oversight, and led to a rapid rise in the number of HIV cases among women, who contracted the disease primarily through heterosexual sex. Today, women account for one in four of the 1.2 million people living with HIV in America.
In the U.S., there are striking racial and geographic disparities in new HIV infections and outcomes. While African American women represent just 13 percent of the female population, they constitute 64 percent of new HIV infections and are 14 times more likely to die from AIDS-related causes than white women.
HIV infections are also concentrated in urban areas, such as Washington, D.C., where 1.6 percent of women are HIV positive, a prevalence that is higher than for females living in Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, and Liberia.
In addition to being more biologically susceptible to HIV infection than heterosexual men, women's vulnerability to HIV is also driven by social and economic factors. Poverty, sexism, stigma, discrimination, and violence increase risk for infection and are among the many structural barriers that prevent women from getting the information and services they need to prevent HIV or to seek proper care if they are HIV positive.

By Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., and Jennifer A. Sherwood, M.S.P.H     

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