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Vacuna

Las vacunas son una de las herramientas más poderosas y costo-efectivas que tenemos para evitar las enfermedades. Una vacuna que impidiera la infección por VIH o que detuviera la progresión de la enfermedad ayudaría considerablemente en la lucha contra la pandemia del SIDA. Una pregunta crucial es si una vacuna basada en una determinada cepa del VIH sería eficaz para poblaciones en las cuales predomina otra cepa. También existen dudas sobre cómo una vacuna contra el VIH protegería a los individuos: aunque no evitara la transmisión de la infección, tal vez la vacuna pudiera evitar o retrasar el desarrollo de la enfermedad, o simplemente reducir la infecciosidad de las personas que contraigan el VIH. La educación y consejería de prevención del VIH son componentes importantes de los programas de vacunación. Incluso después de la comercialización de una vacuna, todavía continuará la necesidad de programas eficaces de prevención conductual. La vacuna contra el VIH no será una panacea universal, pero podría jugar un papel poderoso como parte de un conjunto de intervenciones preventivas.

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Crime and Punishment: Is There a Role for Criminal Law in HIV Prevention Policy?

The Until There's A Cure Foundation has provided financial support for the UCSF AIDS Policy Research Center since 1998. One of the primary goals of this funding is to research and publish a monograph analyzing an area of current HIV/AIDS public policy.  Previous monographs have focused on the development an AIDS vaccine and the validity of abstinence-only education.  This year’s project, funded by Until There's A Cure Foundation, explores what role, if any, criminal law should have in addressing HIV transmission and what the scope of that role should be.  This monograph reviews the criminal law approach to HIV transmission, including the history and policy background to criminalization of intentional HIV exposure and the reasons that states may use such laws.  It then analyzes in detail the statutes that states have adopted to criminalize intentional HIV exposure, focusing on the specific statutory and its implications to highlight how criminal HIV exposure laws can support or undermine public health prevention efforts.
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Collaborative Research to Prevent HIV among Prisoners and their Families

There are more than two million adults incarcerated in the US and four million more on probation or parole. Rates of HIV are 8 to 10 times higher for incarcerated persons than for the general US population, hepatitis C rates are 9 to 10 times higher, and sexually transmitted disease (STD) rates among men entering jails are as high as 35%. Because many prisoners are serving short sentences for parole violation, and return to prison is common, at-risk individuals move frequently between prisons and their home communities. (National Commission on Correctional Health Care, 2002) There is an urgent need to develop effective, accessible HIV prevention programs and population-specific HIV education materials for prisoners and their partners. Despite this, institutional barriers have impeded development and evaluation of such programs. Prisoners in the US have virtually no access to condoms, bleach, clean syringes, comprehensive HIV prevention education or support for transitioning out of prison. Rules protecting the security of the institution also limit access by community-based organizations (CBOs) and researchers. Staff at Centerforce, a CBO, have provided comprehensive HIV prevention education at San Quentin State Prison since 1986. Since 1992 they have been evaluating many of these programs in collaboration with the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS), UCSF.
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National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day —February 7, 2011

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Healthy Living Project

Healthy Living is a 3-module/15-session intervention that is delivered one-on-one to people living with HIV. Each of the 3 modules consists of 5 sessions, and each is designed to improve quality of life in a different broad area of health: physical, mental, and sexual. HLP is one of the CDC’s Best-Evidence Interventions. (posted 1/09