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March 2007 - DCAP welcomes two new case managers this year. Sue Licht-Cliff, MSW, is DCAP’s Client
Care Coordinator. She hails from both Haskell
and KU and brings to DCAP a road range of experience
working in supportive services.
Elizabeth Nicol, part-time Case Manager, is currently
enrolled in an MSW program. Elizabeth is
originally from Poland and has worked with clients,
including those affected by AIDS, in both
Oslo, Norway and Wichita, KS.
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World AIDS Day 2006
Lawrence vigil, other events to mark World AIDS Day - Lawrence Journal-World
For the past two weeks at several Lawrence businesses, interested people have been able to write a message onto a “Ribbon of Life” to pay tribute to a loved one or share a thought about fighting AIDS worldwide.
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AIDS Day leads fight - KUJH TVNews
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AIDS Day project features visual tribute - Channel 6 News
Today is world AIDS day and the Douglas County AIDS project is commemorating with a visual tribute.
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Guitar-picker, folk artist to raise money for local families coping with AIDS
Musicians are trying to make a difference for local families affected by AIDS. Today is World AIDS Day, and in commemoration of it musicians, including The Bowdens, Andy McKee and Pastense, will perform tonight at the Classic Bean.
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Art Auction 2006
Local art was the focus of an auction tonight supporting DCAP - Channel 6 News
In the fourteenth year of the Red Ribbon Art Auction, area artists donated 40 pieces for a live auction and 60 more for a silent auction to benefit AIDS awareness.
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Art auction takes creative aim at AIDS - Lawrence Journal-World
“I think the issue nationally has gone under the radar for a few years now, but we need to remind people that it is still a pressing problem,” said Kristin Brumm, executive director of the Douglas County AIDS Project.
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Volunteers in the News
Working with patients motivate AIDS project volunteer - Katie Black
December 3, 2006
“Just the life experience in general. It makes your life richer because I can relate to many more different issues since we did that first program,” said Katie Black.
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Local Articles
The gift of time
One Lawrence woman has defied doctors' predictions by living 15 years after her HIV diagnosis. Doctors diagnosed HIV in a KU student two-and-a-half years ago. Their stories — about one deadly virus and two Lawrence women 20 years apart in age — demonstrate how medical treatment for HIV and AIDS and society’s attitude toward their victims have improved.
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CDC Recommends Routine, Voluntary HIV Screening in Health Care Settings
Associated Press 09:45 AM Sep, 21, 2006
ATLANTA -- All Americans between the ages of 13 and 64 should be routinely tested for HIV to help catch infections earlier and stop the spread of the deadly virus, federal health recommendations announced Thursday say.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said HIV testing should become about as common as a cholesterol check. Nearly half of new HIV infections are discovered when doctors are trying to diagnose a sick patient who has come for care, CDC officials said.
"We know that many HIV infected people seek health care and they don't get tested. And many people are not diagnosed until late in the course of their illness, when they're already sick with HIV-related conditions," said Dr. Timothy Mastro, acting director of the CDC's division of HIV/ AIDS prevention.
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Most HIV infections linked to people unaware they carry the virus - 07/08/06-07/10/06
Up to 70% of the 40,000 new HIV infections occurring in the United States each year are transmitted sexually by adults unaware they are infected with the virus, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials write in the journal AIDS. A mathematical model developed at the CDC shows that 54% to 70% of new U.S. HIV cases are transmitted through sexual activity by people who are infected but have not been diagnosed as HIV-positive.
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AIDS deaths decline in Kansas - June 13, 2006
The number of newly diagnosed HIV cases is holding steady in Kansas, but AIDS-related deaths are dropping in the state, health officials told the Associated Press. A total of 176 new HIV cases were diagnosed in Kansas in 2004, roughly the same number that were diagnosed a decade earlier. But AIDS deaths have dropped from a peak of 134 per year in 1994 to just 34 last year. Health officials say improvements in anti-HIV drugs and other advances in medical technology have helped lower the death rate. But they still worry that HIV infections continue at high levels. "People think that if you get the virus, it's OK because there's a pill to take," Geri Summers, director of the Douglas County AIDS Project, told the Associated Press. "There's still no cure for AIDS, and the pills that people have to take a lot of times have horrible side effects.” (The Advocate)
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