ACR Health trying to expand nutritional education program
ACR Health in Syracuse is hoping a successful nutrition program can be expanded to serve others in the community, but right now its nutritional education program currently only has funding to serve...
View ArticleThis week: reducing complications in diabetes
The sharp reduction in diabetic complications is encouraging news for more than 21 million Americans who have been diagnosed with the disease. Federal researchers recently showed about 2/3 fewer heart...
View ArticleCuomo vows to reduce number of AIDS cases in New York
Gov . Andrew Cuomo recently announced a plan he hopes will end the AIDS epidemic in New York state by the year 2020, but much of what’s involved in the three-point program is already being done. The...
View ArticleACR Health taking HIV, hepatitis C education to prison populations
ACR Health Prevention Services in Syracuse is looking for ways to reduce HIV and hepatitis C infection rates in New York state prisons. According to federal statistics, inmates have the highest rate of...
View ArticleNeedle exchange program to be expanded into Utica
ACR Health has expanded its needle exchange program in Utica. In the Syracuse area, the organization’s three-year-old needle exchange program has reached almost 1,000 injection drug users. ACR health...
View ArticleHIV prevention focus moves to medication
Today is World AIDS Day. The director of the Designated AIDS Center at Upstate is optimistic that the state will reach its goal of dramatically reducing the number of new HIV infections across the...
View ArticleCould HIV/AIDS drugs lead to heart disease and stroke for the chronically ill?
In the early days of the AIDS epidemic, a positive diagnosis was virtually a death sentence. Today, a person taking antiretroviral medications can live long term with the disease as a chronic...
View ArticleTrial could lead to an oral vaccine against HIV
University of Rochester Medical Center researchers in Rochester are looking for healthy adults for a trial that could lead to an oral vaccine against HIV infection. The vaccine under investigation...
View ArticleThis week: miscarriage, HIV prevention and healthy weight
Though miscarriages can often go unnoticed, they are tremendous losses to the mothers who experience them. Certified nurse midwife Kathleen Dermady explains the symptoms of miscarriage, and Dr. Shawky...
View ArticlePush to increase HIV testing working
Finding out who tests positive for the H-I-V virus and getting them treated are cornerstones of a central New York strategy to meet the state’s goal of ending AIDS by 2020. HIV testing by ACR Health is...
View ArticleAIDS center wins state grant to expand treatment programs
The Designated AIDS Center at Upstate University Hospital has won a state grant that will expand treatment programs. The idea is to make sure people infected with the HIV virus continue treatment that...
View ArticleRegional groups work to implement plan to end AIDS by 2020
New York has set a goal to eliminate AIDS in the state by the year 2020. Communities throughout the state are coming together to work on ways to implement the plan. Public health organizations met in...
View ArticleNew York to spend additional $200 million to combat AIDS epidemic
New York state will add another $200 million toward the effort to end the AIDS epidemic. These new funds are on top of $2.5 billion the state has already committed to the fight against AIDS by Gov....
View ArticleThis week: pediatric screenings, healthy pets and holiday eating
New guidelines suggesting that all children be screened for high cholesterol, depression and HIV are based on research showing rising numbers of kids with those problems, explains Beth Nelsen, a...
View ArticleAIDS advocates pushing for access for teens to medication without parental...
ACR Health in Syracuse is lobbying hard for proposed state legislation that would allow children under the age of 18 to get access to HIV prevention medication without parental consent. Marissa Rice...
View ArticleGoal of ending AIDS epidemic in New York in sight
It’s been a little over two years since Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a goal of ending the AIDS epidemic in New York state by 2020. The man who runs the state AIDS Institute says that goal is in reach,...
View ArticleThis week: HIV testing, physician burnout and suicide prevention
A medication that prevents the transmission of HIV can help quell the AIDS epidemic if the people at risk for contracting the virus reliably take the medication every day. Nicky Jennings, an education...
View ArticleThis week: HIV, heart disease, and head and neck cancers
New York state has several efforts underway to curtail the HIV epidemic. Upstate infectious disease expert Elizabeth Asiago-Reddy talks this week about the increased availability of HIV testing,...
View ArticleACR Health ramps up HIV testing as state pursues 2020 goal
It’s been two years since the state announced a goal of ending the AIDS epidemic by 2020. Achieving that goal is on the horizon, according to one local health agency.
View ArticleNumber of HIV/AIDS cases down significantly in NY state
The latest numbers of new HIV/AIDS infections in New York State show a dramatic reduction in one particular population. AIDS activists say it’s proof the Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s blueprint to end AIDS in...
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