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Fenway Health Supports Passage of Bill To Ensure Young Adults Have Access to HIV Prevention and Treatment
BOSTON Fenway Health announces today that it supports “An Act Relative To HIV Prevention Access for Young Adults,” which would make it possible for minors to receive prescriptions for Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) from health care providers as well as treatment for HIV without parental consent. The bill was filed in the House by State Reps. Jack Patrick Lewis and Chynah Tyler and in the Senate by State Sen. Julian Cyr.
PrEP is an antiretroviral medication that blocks HIV from replicating in the body and when taken daily reduces the risk of getting HIV from sex by more than 90 percent. Despite its efficacy at preventing the transmission of HIV, only 20 percent of those who are good candidates for PrEP use the medication.
A Massachusetts church is reportedly challenging its parishioners to pay it forward as they distribute $30,000 among the 170 families who attend their services. Rev. Luke Veronis of Saints Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Webster made the astonishing announcement during a service last month, according to the Telegram & Gazette. He said the church would distribute $30,000 to… kidnapping Dec 4, 2019
A Massachusetts couple is facing a number of charges after a woman told police she was held against her will Tuesday night inside of her vehicle in Dudley. The victim, who has not been identified, went to the Webster Police Department at about 8 p.m. and told authorities that she had been parked outside the Dollar General Store in Dudley…
Between COVID and a New Administration, What s to Come for the “Ending the HIV Epidemic” Plan?
Dec. 15, 2020
New York City Health Department Deputy Commissioner for the Division of Disease Control Dr. Demetre C. Daskalakis, who has played a huge role in dramatically driving down HIV rates in the city over the past eight years, was just named incoming head of HIV prevention at the CDC.
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In March, right before COVID-19 hit hard, the activist-initiated but Trump administration–approved plan to End the HIV Epidemic (EHE) in the U.S. was proceeding apace. At the time, targeted jurisdictions across the country were just starting to get their initial federal funding to start drafting their plans, and there was some concern about whether and how state and county health departments would truly engage people from the most affected communities (gay Black men, Black transgender women, rural injection-drug users, etc.) in their planning.
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