Joanne Silberner

Call For Innovative Tools And Spending Plan To Combat HIV/AIDS

AIDS in 2012: The chief of strategic information on HIV/AIDS for the D.C. Department of Health tells Joanne Silberner that innovative tools and strategic spending can cut into DC’s epidemic. A transcript follows.   JOANNE SILBERNER: Tiffany West, Washington D.C., has the highest prevalence of HIV in the country at 2.7 percent. What kind of […]

Joanne Silberner
By Joanne Silberner
In this Thursday, May 10, 2012 photo, Dr. Lisa Sterman holds up a Truvada pill at her office in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

AIDS in 2012: The chief of strategic information on HIV/AIDS for the D.C. Department of Health tells Joanne Silberner that innovative tools and strategic spending can cut into DC's epidemic. A transcript follows.   JOANNE SILBERNER: Tiffany West, Washington D.C., has the highest prevalence of HIV in the country at 2.7 percent. What kind

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HIV/AIDS Advances ‘Have Not Benefitted All Populations Equally’

AIDS in 2012: The founder and executive director of the Black AIDS Institute tells Joanne Silberner that the AIDS epidemic can be combated by making policy choices based on science and by ensuring that the health law’s essential benefits package provides for both HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention. A transcript follows.   JOANNE SILBERNER: Your group, the […]

Joanne Silberner
By Joanne Silberner
In this Thursday, July 12, 2012 photo, a health worker counts antiretroviral drug tablets for a patient. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)

AIDS in 2012: The founder and executive director of the Black AIDS Institute tells Joanne Silberner that the AIDS epidemic can be combated by making policy choices based on science and by ensuring that the health law's essential benefits package provides for both HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention. A transcript follows.   JOANNE

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