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This report presents recommendations for preventing and controlling infectious diseases and managing personnel health and safety concerns and infection control in dental care settings. The report updates and revises previous CDC recommendations and incorporates infection-control measures. The...

This serial is a newsletter that reports on the corporate philantropic response to HIV in the United States and globally. This issue discusses the World Economic Forum's Global Health Initiative (GHI), the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Viacom's 'Know HIV/AIDS' global media campaign to combat...

This report presents the case study of the Lighthouse Trust in Malawi, which was established to provide quality care and counseling and to improve the quality of life of persons with HIV/AIDS, including the terminally ill. The report describes the objective of the Lighthouse, its services...

This monograph seeks to build practical skills for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), community-based organizations (CBOs), and groups of people living with HIV that are responding to HIV/AIDS in developing countries. It is designed to help NGOs, CBOs, and PLWHA groups improve the quality of...

This monograph focuses on HIV/AIDS projects and programs that have improved quality of life for people living with or affected by HIV. These initiatives are widely spread geographically, and they include programs in Cambodia, the Ivory Coast, Ecuador, India, Kenya, South Africa, and two regions of...

This monograph is a workbook that describes ways in which religious leaders can respond to HIV/AIDS epidemic. The monograph explains why religious leaders are uniquely suited to the task of speaking out in the fight to stop HIV/AIDS. It provides information on HIV/AIDS such as HIV transmission, how...

This monograph is a toolkit for planning and implementing antiretroviral (ARV) treatment programs in resource-limited settings by providing technical guidance on planning treatment programs. It lists the goals of an ARV treatment program as reducing illnesses and death due to HIV/AIDS, providing...

This information sheet discusses physician prescription of sterile syringes to injection drug users (IDUs) who continue to inject, in order to prevent the acquisition and transmission of HIV and other blood-borne diseases. Physician prescription of sterile syringes will not only help IDUs receive...

This information sheet discusses the prevalence of HIV/AIDS among women. The sheet presents statistics on the number of women living with HIV/AIDS and notes that the majority of new AIDS cases are African American women and Latinas. Reasons for the higher proportion of women contracting HIV are...

This information sheet discusses the impact of HIV/AIDS on communities of color. It reports that people of color have been disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS and represent the highest number of new AIDS cases and the largest number of people living with AIDS in the US. The information sheet...