The Bay Area Reporter front page on September 20, 1990 announced that the San Francisco chapter of the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power, or ACT UP, had split into two groups. Longtime AIDS activist Michael Wright announced the first meeting of the new group, ACT UP/Golden Gate, and stated the split was the result of huge attendances at ACT UP/San Francisco meetings (300-plus people) after publicity surrounding ACT UP actions at the July 1990 International AIDS Conference that took place in San Francisco.
ACT UP/Golden Gate took shape as an organization specifically focused on empowering individual patients to access the immediate needs of people with HIV, including housing, financial assistance, but most specifically access to medical treatments for HIV disease and opportunistic infections, and for experimental treatments for breast cancer. The Writers Pool was established at a meeting between then-B.A.R. editor Michael Salinas and activist Jeff Getty in 1994 and was conceived as a v
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TOWSON, Md., April 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Confidio, a technology-enabled pharmacy benefits consulting firm, is expanding its focus on innovation to bring refreshed solutions to optimize the financial and clinical outcomes of prescription drug benefits for plan sponsors. Following six-months of expanding the team, Confidio has hired 19 new employees, including a strategic hire focused on strategic and innovative growth. This employee growth represents a 32 percent increase in employees since October 2020. Each of Confidio s new hires, but specifically the newly developed Chief Innovation Officer role, is vital to achieving our strategic vision to bring new and enhanced solutions to market that support the evolving needs of a rapidly growing client portfolio.
Valley Metro workers receive Johnson & Johnson vaccine
4,000 frontline transit workers have continued to risk their own health to keep the Valley moving throughout the pandemic. Author: Josh Sanders (KPNX) Updated: 5:46 PM MST March 12, 2021
PHOENIX Maricopa County Public Health began vaccinating Metro Phoenix transit workers with the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine at Cesar Chavez High School on Friday.
“It means a lot to me, not only to protect myself but to protect my family and those passengers I serve, those around me. My co-workers as well,” said Dawn McGuire.
There are approximately 4,000 frontline transit workers who serve metro Phoenix communities. I have advocated for quite some time for these essential workers to move up on the priority list, and am pleased to see the county take action, said Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego. Since the pandemic began, these are the people who show up every day, and work in close contac