Related events: Starting this week Lifelong Thrift Store sales event and donations of a portion of proceeds from Chef Ricky Flickenger’s Burgeoisie Brunches — and on Sept. 8 a “Happy Hour for Hope” at Bad Monkey Bistro
[ September 25, 2010; 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. ] The Seattle AIDS Walk & 5K Run is Lifelong’s largest annual event to raise funds and awareness to battle HIV and AIDS in our community.
Join the Lifelong AIDS Alliance and thousands of supporters on Saturday, September 25, 2010 in Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill to honor 24 years of offering hope for a future free [...]
Two-hour forum on reforming U.S. global health practices was held in Seattle Thursday will be available online.
AIDS programs now exist as a fractured web of resources ranging from community-based clinics that offer free condoms to subsidized health services to federal agencies that provide massive funding programs for treatment and prevention.
UW study shows drug treatment cuts HIV transmission 92%. Some experts say the spread of AIDS in Africa could be contained in as little as five years if everyone infected received treatment now.
Tom Paulson went to Thailand believing the recent AIDS vaccine trial had been a success; when he got there he learned about some serious, unresolved problems.
One out of five people in the U.S. infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, doesn’t know it, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports.
CDC recommends that everyone between the ages of 13 and 64 be tested for HIV at least once as part of their routine health care.
People who are [...]
A survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation has found that Americans’ concern about the threat of HIV/AIDS has dropped sharply in recent years with just 6 percent of adults surveyed now naming HIV/AIDS as the most urgent health problem facing the country, down for 44 percent in 1995.
The drop comes at the same time the [...]
Healthcare providers should make it clear to patients and parents that male circumcision substantially reduces a man’s risk of contracting AIDS, genital herpes and the virus that causes genital warts and cervical cancer, two University of Washington researchers write in today’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
In recent years, the value of circumcision [...]
In support of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, the Snohomish Health District will offer free HIV testing to Black Americans who might be at risk of HIV infection.
These would include individuals who might have had unprotected sex or have injected drugs and shared their injection equipment.
Testing will include a private counseling session. Testing and counseling [...]
Invisible Families: The homeless you don't see
They squeeze in with relatives, couch surf with friends or camp out in cars. More families are quietly becoming homeless, driven to the edge by a lack of jobs and affordable housing. The Seattle Times and its local news partners tackle the topic together. Project home
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