UCLA-led team awarded more than $5 million for HIV prevention projects ucla.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ucla.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
UCLA-led team awarded more than $5 million for HIV prevention projects miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
UCLA In the News July 9, 2021 ucla.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ucla.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
March 10, 2021 UCLA In the News lists selected mentions of UCLA in the world’s news media. Some articles may require registration or a subscription to view. See more UCLA In the News. The U.S. and California economies will experience near-record growth this year thanks to widespread vaccinations for COVID-19 and massive federal relief for struggling workers and businesses, UCLA forecasters predict. … “This is a very ‘good news’ forecast,” said Leo Feler, senior economist of the forecasting group based at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. “We have finally turned the corner.” (UCLA’s Jerry Nickelsburg was also quoted; UCLA’s Leila Bengali was cited. Also: Pasadena Now, KPCC-FM and KCRW-FM.)
Fenway Health and Other Experts Say That to End HIV Epidemic, Address Health Disparities Share Article Despite coordinated national efforts to implement HIV services, the epidemic persists, especially in the South. It also disproportionately impacts marginalized groups, such as Black/African-American, and Latinx communities, women, people who use drugs, men who have sex with men (MSM), and other sexual and gender minorities. Recommendations to overcoming barriers to implementing HIV services include counseling, testing, treatment, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and syringe services programs. These services are critical to preventing new HIV transmissions and helping people living with HIV. “We have an increasing array of biological interventions to improve people’s lives and to limit HIV spread, but the failure to attend to the social and structural factors that potentiate risk have limited the impact of new prevention modalities.” said Kenneth Mayer, MD of The Fenway Institute
UCLA Opens Center Focused on LGBTQ Health, Research wehoville.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wehoville.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
San Francisco officials are seeking proposals for $1.6 million to be awarded over the next two years aimed at boosting the lives of Black transgender residents and other LGBTQ people of color. Monday the city s Human Rights Commission opened up the process for nonprofits and social service agencies to submit proposals for $1,375,000 to be divided among three organizations over the next two years specifically for programs aimed at Black trans individuals, especially Black trans women. The city department is particularly interested in proposals that will provide economic security, stabilization, and arts and cultural enrichment programmatic services to transgender and gender-nonconforming communities of color.
A new center has been launched to promote the health of LGBTQ community members, the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health announced early December 17. The UCLA Center for LGBTQ Advocacy, Research and Health, or C-LARAH, will seek to promote the health of sexual and gender minorities through research and partnerships with the LGBTQ community, community-based organizations, public health officials and policymakers in Los Angeles and beyond, according to a UCLA news release that was provided to the Bay Area Reporter on an embargo. The center will be headed by Matthew Mimiaga, a gay man who s an epidemiology professor and has worked on research projects spanning four continents. He has been studying the intersection of LGBTQ health and HIV since 1998. Mimiaga had heretofore been at Harvard University in Massachusetts and Brown University in Rhode Island, moving his work from the Ocean State to UCLA a few months back.