Tuesday 16 February 2010 at 9:36 pm
Over the past decade, limited attention has been paid to the human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV) epidemic in the United States. The global epidemic - particularly the epidemic in sub-SaharaAfrica, where approximately two thirds of the world's population living with AIDS resides - has rightfully received most of the focus. Meanwhile, however, the prevalence of HIV infection with - in some U.S. populations now rivals that in some sub-Saharan African countries.
Read the entire article from the New England Journal of Medicine here
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Sunday 07 February 2010 at 5:54 pm
Margarita's Mexican Restaurant and Watering Hole, Main Street, Keene, NH will kick-off a new monthly fundraising event benefiting AIDS Services for the Monadnock Region. Hi-Tini will be held the third Thursday of each month between 5:30-8pm. The second floor of the restaurant will be dedicated to the event, featuring appetizers provided by Margarita's and raffle prizes. A $10 donation provides patrons entry and a raffle ticket for the evening's drawings.
The first Hi-Tini will be held on Thursday, February 18. Each month will feature a theme and patrons are encouraged to dress accordingly. February will fete Valentine's Day and red as the color of love and the AIDS pandemic. Sign up to become a Hi-Tini High Roller and earn a free meal from
Margarita's after 5 Hi-Tini visits.
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Tuesday 19 January 2010 at 11:30 am
Over 30 items will be raffled at the fundraising event, "Night To Remember" held on Friday, January 22 and Saturday, January 23 at The Element Lounge, (www.elementlounge.net) New Hampshire's hottest alternative night club, 1055 Elm Street, Manchester. Female impersonators Laisha and Britney will serve as hostesses and perform each night. Gift certificates include items such as hotel stays, restaurants, limo service, salon/spa amenities and many more from business locations throughout New England.
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Wednesday 13 January 2010 at 11:30 am
Mortality Rate Still Higher Than for Children without HIV
By Kathy Stover, HIV/AIDS Communications Team Leader, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), NIH
There is some
encouraging news about survival rates of children and HIV/AIDS.
The death rates of children with HIV have decreased ninefold
since doctors started prescribing cocktails of antiretroviral drugs
in the mid-1990s, concludes a large-scale study of the long-term
outcomes of children and adolescents with HIV in the United States.
In spite of this improvement, however, young people with HIV continue
to die at 30 times the rate of youth of similar age who do not
have HIV, found researchers from the National Institutes of Health
and other institutions.
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Friday 08 January 2010 at 10:01 am
If you are looking for something to do tonight, Friday (January 8th), head out to Yankee Lanes for a comedy show featuring Sweet Baby Ray, Wade the Great Garrett, Cheshire TV's own Rick Blood and Josh May! Doors open 6p, show 7-9. Admission only $2 at the door.
Although this is not a fundraiser for AIDS Services, three of the four performers regularly donate their time and energy to the agency. Sweet Baby Ray was Keene Komic grand prize winner in 2009 and 2006; Wade the Great Garrett was a finalist in 2009 IDOL and second-runner-up in Keene Komic 2009; and Rick Blood shows up in his role at Cheshire TV to make sure that our events reach the Channel 8 audience.
Support our home-grown comedians. Who knows... one day we might see them on Comedy Central!
Wednesday 06 January 2010 at 1:35 pm
As we begin the new year, we wish to thank those members of the
business community who cared enough about the work of AIDS Services for
the Monadnock Region in 2009 to consistently show up in ways that made
a difference. Heartfelt appreciation to: Walmart, Target, Sears, C&S Wholesale Grocers, the Monadnock Radio Group, Murphy's Auto Body, the Best Western Sovereign Hotel, Super 8 Motel (now Days Inn), E.F. Lane Hotel and the Keene Sentinel.
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Tuesday 05 January 2010 at 1:39 pm
From POZ Magazine on December 31st: A television advertisement by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation was found to be "inoffensive" by the country's Advertising Standards Authority, stuff.co.nz reports. The authority chairman said the ad carries an important health message.
According to the article, the officials were responding to complaints from viewers, who said the ad was "offensive, unacceptable and breached decency." Others said airing "sexual content" at 8:25 p.m. was inappropriate.
The ad depicts four condom-covered fingers dancing together to a song with the lyrics, "You want me to be wanting you, to be wanting me." A naked finger joins the others, but they stop dancing until the fifth finger also wears a condom.
Watch the Ad on Youtube.com.
Tuesday 29 December 2009 at 2:13 pm
Having studied hope for many years, in 2006 I contacted Susan McNeil, director of AIDS Services for the Monadnock Region (ASMR) in New Hampshire to see if she and her agency were interesting in a collaborative study. I had spent almost ten years developing a new theory of hope as well as a new questionnaire to measure this complex but vital emotion. I proposed that we investigate whether hope, as assessed with this new tool, might be associated with self-report measures of health, and even more importantly, to immune functioning.
Fortunately, Susan was more than willing to help. In fact, she was thrilled at the prospect of tracking the hope levels of her clients, and exploring the potential impact on their emotional and physical wellbeing.
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Tuesday 22 December 2009 at 3:47 pm
On December 20th, the Keene Sentinel ran an article about Uganda's proposed legislation, which will punish gay men and hamper AIDS efforts in that country. In its current form the legislation would mandate a death sentence for active homosexuals living with HIV.
The full article can be read here ( ) or on SentinelSource.com.
An open response to the Keene Sentinel article by ASMR's MacNeil is below:
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Thursday 10 December 2009 at 12:27 pm
A friend of the agency, Bob E. Kelly, has done a video for World AIDS Day. He wrote this after he heard someone refer to intentional transmission of HIV as "the gift". Play safe. Wear your rubbers.
You can view the video by following this link to YouTube.
