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Eric Paulk, deputy director of Georgia Equality A bill reforming Georgia’s outdated HIV laws gained bipartisan support in a hyper-partisan atmosphere and came close to final passage during the legislative session this year. But the legislation – Senate Bill 164 – stalled when an unrelated amendment was tacked on during the final day of the legislative session last month.  Even though the bill didn’t pass, it moved further along the process than any other HIV reform effort in recent years. That leaves reform advocates encouraged that the bill will pass in 2022.  “Sometimes in the ...

State Sen. Chuck Hufstetler, a Republican from Rome. (Photo courtesy Georgia Senate) A Republican state lawmaker leads a bipartisan effort to modernize the state’s HIV laws, which critics say aren’t rooted in science and stigmatize people living with HIV. Sen. Chuck Hufstetler, a Republican from Rome, introduced Senate Bill 164 on Feb. 11. The measure would require prosecutors to show a person charged with exposing someone to HIV through sex had an “intent to transmit HIV” and posed a “significant risk of transmission” based on current science.  Current Georgi...

Wolters Kluwer Health: Tift Regional Medical Center Accelerates Sepsis Detection with POC Advisor from Wolters Kluwer six hours earlier than EHR alerts, helping reduce cost of care and improve CMS compliance Wolters Kluwer Health today announced that Tift Regional Medical Center, the flagship hospital of Southwell, a not-for-profit health system in South Central Georgia, has selected POC Advisor for more accurate, earlier detection and treatment of sepsis. POC Advisor's real-time artificial intelligence (AI) analysis of patient data will further empower Tift's sepsis care capabilities fo...

Fran Hutchins, who helped lead the fight for marriage equality in Maine as the regional field director for Mainers United for Marriage, took on a new role as the executive director of the Equality Federation at the beginning of the year. Hutchins, a 44-year-old queer woman, has been with the Equality Federation since 2012 and is its third executive director. She is the first mixed-race Asian American to lead the organization. When she spoke to the Bay Area Reporter January 6, Hutchins was settling into her new role. She spoke with the paper just a few moments before the insurrection in the U....