Comments on: How To Approach the AIDS Pandemic http://blog.oup.com/2007/10/aids/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Tue, 21 May 2013 22:08:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: On AIDS Psychiatry : OUPblog http://blog.oup.com/2007/10/aids/#comment-50547 On AIDS Psychiatry : OUPblog Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:01:31 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/10/aids/#comment-50547 [...] Earlier today Mary Ann Cohen, co-editor of the Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry helped us better understand the AIDS epidemic in young American men. Cohen’s book (with Jack M. Gorman), navigates the ample evidence supporting the fact that psychiatric treatment can decrease transmission, diminish suffering, improve adherence, and decrease morbidity and mortality. In the excerpt below, Jimmie Holland, MD the Wayne E. Chapman Chair in Psychiatric Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and a Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University provides a forward which puts the Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry into historical perspective. [...] [...] Earlier today Mary Ann Cohen, co-editor of the Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry helped us better understand the AIDS epidemic in young American men. Cohen’s book (with Jack M. Gorman), navigates the ample evidence supporting the fact that psychiatric treatment can decrease transmission, diminish suffering, improve adherence, and decrease morbidity and mortality. In the excerpt below, Jimmie Holland, MD the Wayne E. Chapman Chair in Psychiatric Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and a Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University provides a forward which puts the Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry into historical perspective. [...]

]]> By: Liz http://blog.oup.com/2007/10/aids/#comment-50538 Liz Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:52:05 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/10/aids/#comment-50538 recently I saw an quick ad on mtv about gay men and getting tested (disco music and colored dancing kind of like the old ipod commercials) - another ad on a different network shows people holding red roses, and meeting people in a square, exchanging the roses...then they all throw them on the ground and run from each other (the ad stated at the end "love is fleeting, knowledge is forever: get tested") - it's interesting how the media is going about getting the message across and doing it so it as seen as empowering to take charge of one's sexual health, and not scary as some old ads have been. recently I saw an quick ad on mtv about gay men and getting tested (disco music and colored dancing kind of like the old ipod commercials) – another ad on a different network shows people holding red roses, and meeting people in a square, exchanging the roses…then they all throw them on the ground and run from each other (the ad stated at the end “love is fleeting, knowledge is forever: get tested”) – it’s interesting how the media is going about getting the message across and doing it so it as seen as empowering to take charge of one’s sexual health, and not scary as some old ads have been.

]]> By: Mindy http://blog.oup.com/2007/10/aids/#comment-50537 Mindy Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:50:59 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/10/aids/#comment-50537 Thanks for bringing this pressing (and very relevant) issue to your readers' attention. Thanks for bringing this pressing (and very relevant) issue to your readers’ attention.

]]> By: Jon http://blog.oup.com/2007/10/aids/#comment-50523 Jon Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:48:05 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/10/aids/#comment-50523 On the subject of avoiding a culture of fear: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/01/archibishop-of-mozam.html On the subject of avoiding a culture of fear:

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/01/archibishop-of-mozam.html

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