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Posted on April 11, 2012 at 9:37 am
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April Showers at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: Vonnegut, Magic, Philip Levine, Guy Delisle and More
April showers of poetry and magic and more: Tonight we’re celebrating the life and work of Kurt Vonnegut. Next week join us for the second installment of the Better Book Club with Lev Grossman, Haley Tanner, magic, and comedy. April is, of course, National Poetry Month; stop by our Poetry Sale to stock up and impress your friends and more-than-friends, and on Monday 4/23 join Knopf, Tumblr, Poet Laureate Philip Levine, Tracy K. Smith for a Celebrate Poetry celebration. I tried to make this intro a poem but it turns out poetry is pretty hard.
Note: The Behind the Longreads with Kill Screen event previously scheduled for 4/17 has been postponed. The American Poet launch on Thursday 4/26 has moved to the powerHouse Arena …
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 1:00 pm
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Brooklyn and Bronx Rank Last in NYS Healthy Counties
Look at the map above. You’ll see it shows most of the people diagnosed with HIV in NYC last year were in South Bronx and Central Brooklyn. It should come as no surprise that a new study released last week measured the overall health of each county, found that of the 62 counties in New York State, Brooklyn ranks 54 and the Bronx ranks dead last at 62.
Metro NY interviewed the lead author of the study, Kate Konkle of the University of Wisconsin, who reported “many different factors affect health, from individual decisions to smoke to not having access to high-quality health care and healthy food.
‘Where we live matters to our health — and when you look at these …
Posted on April 9, 2012 at 1:50 pm
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ADAP Watch: AIDS Drug Wait List Hits 3,240
As of April 5th, the wait list to receive lifesaving AIDS medication through the nation’s AIDS Drug Assistance Programs had hit 3,240 people across 10 states.
The number of people waiting to receive medication through state-run AIDS drug programs has increased more than 5,000 percent since August 2009, according to the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors. The federal government has reacted with little urgency, however, allotting just $25 million in additional dollars to the program for FY 2012.
To help readers keep tabs on the growing ADAP crisis, we are now posting the ADAP Watch—the document that tracks increasing cuts to the program—each week, and including it in our …
Posted on April 9, 2012 at 10:57 am
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East New York Community Health Center Celebrates Expansion with Ribbon Cutting
Housing Works celebrated the newly renovated East New York Community Health Center with a hot-pink ribbon cutting and tour of the new facility.
About one-hundred Housing Works clients, staff, and community allies gathered outside the health center on Pitkin Avenue in East New York to celebrate the center’s re-opening, which will now serve all people regardless of HIV status, a first for Housing Works’ health service programs. The $500,000 renovation will more than double clients to reach 2,600 new users (about 10,552 medical visits annually), 80% who will be homeless, .
“In order to accomplish our mission of ending the dual crises of HIV and homelessness, we need to be able to offer health care to people before they become HIV-positive,” …
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 2:30 pm
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NYC Data Shows Drop in 2010 HIV Rates But Disparities Remain
This week, NYC released a series of slide sets detailing the HIV infections in 2010. While the overall rates of HIV have dropped in the city, many of the same disparities still persist. Here’s 10 things to remember about AIDS in New York:
- 1 – NYC has much higher numbers of new HIV diagnoses than other cities, but the rate of people with HIV is much lower than cities like Washington, DC, Miami, Atlanta, and Baltimore.
- 2 – About 90% of transgender women (male-to-female) and transgender men (female-to-male) diagnosed with HIV were Black or Hispanic.
- 3 – 20% of people with HIV had progressed to AIDS at the time …
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 11:14 am
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White House Announces Working Group On Women, HIV and Violence Issues
One month after the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) featured women activists calling for more focus on women and girls in the National AIDS Strategy, the Obama Administration has announced working group to begin exploring ways to better respond to the needs of women in the HIV epidemic.
“The Working Group shall coordinate agency efforts to address issues involving the intersection of HIV/AIDS, violence against women and girls, and gender related health disparities,” said President Obama, in a memo posted on the White House website.
Whether this “coordination” will lead to increased funding for HIV treatment, services and care delivery for women remains to be seen. But something has to shift. Last month, a study released …
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 5:35 pm
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ADAP Watch: AIDS Drug Wait List Hits 3,666
As of March 29, the wait list to receive lifesaving AIDS medication through the nation’s AIDS Drug Assistance Programs had hit 3,666 people across 11 states.
The number of people waiting to receive medication through state-run AIDS drug programs has increased more than 5,000 percent since August 2009, according to the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors. The federal government has reacted with little urgency, however, allotting just $25 million in additional dollars to the program for FY 2012.
To help readers keep tabs on the growing ADAP crisis, we are now posting the ADAP Watch—the document that tracks increasing cuts to the program—each week, and including it in our Friday morning newsletter.
Kenyon Farrow--> on April 3, 2012 at 10:24 am
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