Despite awareness and advances in medicine, doctors say our success combating the HIV/AIDS has also become our weakness.
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Despite a decrease in rates overall, one in 64 African-Americans in the state is living with HIV/AIDS compared to 1 in 661 non-Hispanic whites.
While African-Americans make up 15 percent of the state’s total population, they represent 50 percent of those currently living with HIV/AIDS in the state.
Dec. 1, 1988 was the first World AIDS Day, serving as an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV. Since then ...
Perry Halkitis will become the first openly gay dean of a major college in August. At the Rutgers School of Public Health he hopes to ...
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In Tenafly, a couple hundred high school students sat in for a sobering conference focused on preventing AIDS, where doctors from Hackensack University Medical Center ...
Going cold turkey in public housing. We'll tell you the cost to health, the environment and the housing stock of kicking the smoking habit. Healing ...
While people under age 25 make up only 5 percent of Newark’s total HIV/AIDS infected population, that age group represents more than 25 percent of ...
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The Hyacinth AIDS Foundation's Syringe Access Program gives injecting drug users clean supplies to help prevent the spread of HIV.
Hackers are using ransomware to hold hostage the critical data of hospitals, colleges and municipalities. And many are paying the ransom they demand. But at ...
A policy change on who can donate blood. After three decades of advances in HIV testing and treatment gay men can once again be donors. ...
Federal policy changes now permit gay and bisexual men who haven’t had sex for a year to donate blood.
In New Jersey about 1,300 people test positive each year and about 1.2 million Americans across the country are living with HIV. At Hyacinth, an ...
Got a ticket to ride the train? You'll need one just to sit inside the station. NJ Transit says it's to ensure passengers have a ...