Blog AIDS Gov, 2 September 2014

If your grandmother were to ask you for your Twitter handle or your grandfather wanted to become your Facebook friend, how would you respond? If you posted or tweeted messages related to HIV or AIDS awareness, education or testing among older adults, would you be willing to share that information with your grandparents?

Beyond individual experiences with using social media across generations, it's useful to learn about technology and social media use among older Americans. 63% of all American adults, and 27% of all Americans ages 65 and older Exit Disclaimer, are social networking site users. Use of social networking sites by older Americans has been steadily increasing in recent years Exit Disclaimer. Did you know that AARP, the organization that helps people 50 and older, provides guidance Exit Disclaimer [PDF 68KB] on how to get started with social media? Technology and social media have an increasing place in health communication among and for older adults.

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Eureka Street, 1 September 2014

Over the past few years, the rhetorical response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic has become progressively stronger. At the AIDS 2014 conference held in Melbourne in July, UNAIDS director Michel Sidibé announced the strategic goal of 'Ending HIV by 2030'. The overflowing plenary session heard bold new targets for testing and treatment, as well as stigma reduction. Global targets can be used to benchmark countries – but measuring a reduction in stigma is harder than it sounds.

At a subsequent session, the cavernous chamber was almost empty as a sparse crowd listened to an expert panel on 'evidence based stigma reduction'. As one of my colleagues asked, 'what's the international standard unit for one stigma?'

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Edge on the Net, 2 September 2014

A new report from amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research and AVAC outlines the need for a new approach to tracking data to guide the key decisions that shape the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Critical and expensive decisions made with incomplete data are undermining the response-even as the systems for collecting this data continue to improve, the report found.

The report, Data Watch: Closing a Persistent Gap in the AIDS Response, outlines corrective steps to sustain and expand the progress made in the past few years in the AIDS response and lays out key areas where better, more complete data is needed, including what proportion of people with HIV globally who are taking antiretroviral drugs remain connected to a clinical provider and have their virus fully suppressed, enabling them to remain healthy and avoid transmitting HIV to others; what proportions of those communities most impacted by HIV (e.g., young women in Africa, gay men and other men who have sex with men, transgender individuals, sex workers, people who inject drugs) do not have access to effective HIV prevention tools due to pervasive stigma or discrimination; and the question of whether global AIDS funding is focused on those programs that will have the greatest impact in reducing transmission and disease burden worldwide?

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Surya Online, 2 September 2014

SURYA Online, SURABAYA – Penutupan lokalisasi Dolly belum lama ini tak hanya berimbas pada melubernya pekerja seks sosial (PSK) di wilayah sekitarnya. Kabupaten Sidoarjo yang hanya berjarak beberapa kilometer dari Dolly juga terkena imbasnya.

Sejumlah PSK jebolan Dolly banyak mangkal di wilayah Sidoarjo, terutama di sekitar Pasar Sapi. Hal ini diakui Bupati Sidoarjo Saiful Illah saat mengikuti sidang doktoral terbuka Kepala Dinas Koperasi, UKM, Perindustrian, Perdagangan dan ESDM Sidoarjo Fenny Apridawati di Fakultas Kedokteran, Unair, Selasa (2/8/2014).

"Saya melihatnya sendiri di sekitar sapi ternyata banyak pedagang kaki lima. Paginya mereka jualan kacang seret, tapi malamnya mereka diseret,"seloroh Saiful Illah yang hadir bersama istrinya.

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