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Raise Awareness: Pink, Purple, Red and Blue

Raise Awareness: Pink, Purple, Red and Blue

It seems like everywhere I look, there is something pink reminding me that this is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  Throughout CHC, staff members have been wearing Pink and our Early Detection Program has been doing a great job encouraging people to get tested early. Yet there are many more health issues we need to be aware of.  October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.  New Horizons Domestic Violence Services, a program of CHC, has been running several different events to…

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National HIV Testing Day Recap

National HIV Testing Day Recap

Monday was National HIV Testing Day and last week there was an article in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report about the results of an expanded HIV Testing Initiative last year.  Approximately 20% of the estimated 1.2 million persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the United States at the end of 2008 were not aware of their infection The report describes the results of nearly 2.8 million HIV tests from October 2007 until September 2010.  Nearly 30,000 people…

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#FF #NHTD

#FF #NHTD

The title of this blog post might not make sense to people that don’t use Twitter a lot, so let me explain.  On Twitter, it is common to use a ‘hashtag’.  This is an abbreviation preceded by a pound sign or ‘hash mark’.  #FF is the hashtag for ‘Follow Friday’.  Follow Friday is a tradition on Twitter of listing interesting other people to follow on Twitter.  There are many people on Twitter, and it can be difficult to find someone…

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Going Viral to Stop the Spread of a Virus

Going Viral to Stop the Spread of a Virus

Last night, I received an email from our Chief Medical Office, Dr. J. Nwando Olayiwola concerning the National HIV Testing Day Chat Series on Twitter.  It is a weeklong set of chats with interesting speakers and an interesting set of topics.  Various people from CHC will participate in some of the chats, and I’m disappointed that I missed a couple of the early chats.  I realize that not everyone reading this blog is used to TweetChats, so I’m going to…

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Pneumocystis Pneumonia – A Community Response

Pneumocystis Pneumonia – A Community Response

Last Saturday, I received an email from our clinical director, Margaret Flinter sharing her reflections on 30 years of HIV.  It is a long, but very meaningful message, and I am posting it here in its entirety with her permission. – Aldon Good morning, everyone,  Every once in a while, something causes us to stop and take a deep breath and reflect on momentous changes and challenges we have faced at CHC, in healthcare, and in our communities.  I had…

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