Project Inform

#HIVnews: According to the #CDC 60 percent of newly diagnosed cases of #HIV in the US among women in 2017 were African-American. Yet, African-American women's voices are notoriously absent from the national discourse on HIV. ow.ly/Gcg430nM6b2 #AIDS #NBHAAD #blackwomen

#HARMREDnews: Some candidates for Chicago mayor say they're open to the idea of overdose prevention sites, where people could consume drugs without fear of arrest or death. ow.ly/FHps30nGQI3 #YES2SCS

#HARMREDnews: The CDC reported more than 70 000 deaths from drug overdoses in 2017, including prescription and illicit opioids, representing a 6-fold increase since 1999. Innovative harm-reduction solutions are imperative" ow.ly/36jt30nDv3a #YES2SCS #endthestigma

#HIVnews: "If we don't adequately promote #HIV prevention in black women, we risk seeing HIV infection boomerang in this population... We have got to stop the epidemic in men... But we cannot forget about... women." ow.ly/Og1J30nDmJo #PrEP #NBHAAD #HIVawareness

#HIVnews (more patient-centered care!): Sexual health is not only the absence of disease, but a holistic state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being in relation to sexuality. That includes #PrEP, w or w/o condoms. ow.ly/o77L30nCBuP #PreventionIsBetterThanCure

#HCVnews (ridiculous): Hepatitis C cannot be transmitted via spitting, and these felony charges must be dropped immediately. Criminalizing #hepC serves no public health purpose, and only serves to further stigmatize people living with it. ow.ly/krpE30nCnK3 #endthestigma

Project Inform supports the work of Safehouse in their efforts to open an overdose prevention site, and we urge the federal government to allow local municipalities and states to come up with evidence-based, harm reduction solutions to local drug problems. ow.ly/4AfR30nBJMS

#HARMREDnews: Overdose prevention programs are essential for both... preventing overdose deaths and #HIV or #hepC transmission, while also protecting the public from discarded syringes and other social order problems. ow.ly/4iuT30nBGxz #YES2SCS

#HCVnews: "At lower prices, more medication would be available for persons in prison, who are at highest risk for transmitting (#HepC) to the broader community once released. Nominal pricing is a win-win situation..." #hepatitis #prisonhealth ow.ly/L7A230nAIe8

#HCVnews: “A huge concentration of people who have it are [incarcerated], and if we don’t cure people in prison, then they’ll be released and it will make it more prevalent on the outside of prison...” ow.ly/KCMK30nA2h7 #HepC #hepatitis #prisonhealth #correctionalhealth

Our old friend, Arnie Doyle, wrote a nice piece on drug pricing. "... shouldn’t the price of an older drug go down? Especially if a new drug that treats the same condition is approved?" ow.ly/Kht730ny5Om #medpricing #pharma #prescriptiondrugs ow.ly/FVy630ny61z

A very worthy bill! Everyone deserves to be free from the fear of having to live without #healthcare. ow.ly/D8NQ30ny5t3 #health4all

Just as Project Inform fought to speed up the development of #HIV medications in the face of the #AIDS Epidemic, so too are advocates today calling for innovative responses to the #opioid crisis. ow.ly/PDTB30nsfx3

#HARMREDnews: More of this please! And maybe some training in syringe safety, overdose prevention and harm reduction @Starbucks Starbucks ? #harmreduction #opioidepidemic #kudos ow.ly/GaRe30nlLRn

#HARMREDnews: Would #NIMBY be more likely to support Safe Consumption Sites if they were called Overdose Prevention Sites? Saving lives is worth further discussion. #SCS #harmreduction #yestoscs #safeinjection ow.ly/PvIA30nkb1k

#HIVnews: Ambitious but achievable goal for zero new #HIV diagnoses in New Jersey by 2025 #gettingtozero ow.ly/35kw30nkaR7

#HIVnews: New new research may show why cancer grows faster and more aggressively in patients with #HIV. ow.ly/dvP030njv65

#HIVnews: "regardless (of) experiencing and living with a chronic disease, you still can experience healthy ageing.” #HIV #HIVandaging ow.ly/PaGo30njdVx

#HIVnews: (new statement fr NIAID/NIH today) Officials discuss the scientific evidence, principles underlying U=U, or Undetectable #HIV = Untransmittable. #UequalsU ow.ly/7J4f30nhycr

#HIVnews: (new statement fr NIAID/NIH today) Officials discuss the scientific evidence, principles underlying U=U, or Undetectable #HIV = Untransmittable ow.ly/lMd230ngIHb #UequalsU