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Increase the percentage of newly diagnosed persons linked to HIV medical care within one month of diagnosis to at least 85 percent. |
Increase the percentage of persons with diagnosed HIV infection who are retained in HIV medical care to at least 90 percent. |
Increase the percentage of persons with diagnosed HIV infection who are virally suppressed to at least 80 percent. |
Reduce the percentage of persons in HIV medical care who are homeless to no more than 5 percent. |
Reduce the death rate among persons with diagnosed HIV infection by at least 33 percent. |
Reduce disparities in the rate of new diagnoses by at least 15 percent in the following groups: gay and bisexual men, young Black gay and bisexual men, Black women, and persons living in the Southern United States. |
Increase the percentage of youth and persons who inject drugs with diagnosed HIV infection who are virally suppressed to at least 80 percent. |
To guide implementation of the updated Strategy across the U.S. government, the many Federal agencies and offices engaged in HIV activities will develop a Federal Action Plan detailing the specific steps they will take to implement the priorities set by the Update. The Federal Action Plan will be released in December. |
An action plan framework, similar to the Federal Action Plan structure, will be created to assist other stakeholders—such as state, Tribal, and local governments, community-based organizations, coalitions of persons living with HIV, the scientific and medical communities, faith communities, schools and universities, in... |
The United States will become a place where new HIV infections are rare, and when they do occur, every person, regardless of age, gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, or socio-economic circumstance will have unfettered access to high quality, life-extending care, free from stigma and discriminat... |
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In Puri, Odisha, reporters allegedly found Rs. 200 ($3.30) each in the media kit envelopes provided to them at a press conference addressed by Pinaki Mishra, the ruling Biju Janata Dal MP. The press conference was organised by UCO Bank, on behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Urban Development headed by Mi... |
The upset journalists placed the currency notes on Mishra’s table and left the venue in protest. |
Over a dozen journalists lodged a police complaint against Mishra and BJD MLA Maheswar Mohanty, accusing them of attempting to bribe the media. |
“Putting currency notes in the media kit is an insult to journalists. The sad part is it was the government officials who distributed the kits,” local journalist Jagannath Bastia told the Hindustan Times. |
Mishra responded by claiming that the whole controversy was engineered by his political rivals who envied the rise of BJD in Puri. “Of the 53 journalists who attended the press conference, 15 returned the money while the rest did not complain,” he claimed. |
Puri Superintendent of Police Ashish Singh said he has asked his officers to investigate the matter, though the police were still not sure which section of the Indian Penal Code should be used to file a case against the organisers of the press conference. |
“There is no electoral code of conduct in place now. But we are still closely scrutinising the complaint and would take appropriate steps,” Singh declared. |
But that didn’t stop the incident from being repeated. In a second press conference organised in Bhubaneswar by UCO Bank, this time Rs. 300 ($5) was allegedly given in envelopes to the 40 journalists who attended it. No one returned the money. |
Mishra, who was addressing the press conference, claimed there was no attempt to bribe the journalists. |
“The bank (UCO Bank) gives conveyance allowance to journalists in such press meets. It was just mere courtesy. There is no quid pro quo arrangement. I find it ridiculous that journalists can be bribed by Rs 200. I don’t care for such FIRs. I know how to deal with such things,” he said. |
However, the opposition parties in Odisha, Congress and BJP, alleged that the ‘bribery incident’ proved the political culture of the ruling party and was a brazen attempt to buy the media. |
“After buying votes through money power, the party (BJD) now wants to use money power in everything it does,” claimed Leader of Opposition Narasingha Mishra. |
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. – A student armed with a video camera and a Web site is trying to force a Democratic congressional candidate out of his teaching job at Central Michigan University. |
Dennis Lennox, a 23-year-old junior, has posted videos on YouTube of himself questioning assistant professor Gary Peters about campaigning for office while holding a prestigious position at the university. |
Some say Lennox is persistent. Others accuse him of pandering for attention. |
"What I'm doing isn't about getting media attention," said Lennox, a political science major. "I'm speaking for the hundreds of students, alumni, taxpayers and even legislators who have complained because Gary Peters won't pick between Congress and campus." |
In one video Lennox posted online, Peters is seen walking to his car while Lennox asks him several questions, including whether he is angry about his campaign not getting "positive press." Peters doesn't respond. |
Peters said in an interview this week with The Associated Press that his university position is part-time and privately funded. |
"The bottom line is that people who run for public office still need to pay the bills and still need to work," he said. He drives 130 miles from a Detroit suburb to Mount Pleasant to teach class once a week. |
Peters, 48, is seeking the Democratic nomination to face Republican U.S. Rep. Joe Knollenberg in Oakland County, one of the top congressional targets for Democrats nationally in 2008. |
"If I was running for Congress in a seat where I had no chance of winning, I probably wouldn't have any attention put on me at all," said Peters, a former state senator who lost a close race for Michigan attorney general in 2002. |
He acknowledges it would be difficult to keep his $65,000-a-year job at the university if he gets elected to Congress, but says he will worry about that if he wins. Peters holds the Griffin Endowed Chair in American Government — named for a former Republican U.S. senator and Michigan Supreme Court justice. |
Lennox helped start the group Students Against Gary Peters and created a Web site for what he calls "Petersgate." He insists that he isn't targeting Peters because he's a Democrat. |
But some see it differently. |
"Basically, he's just an extreme partisan. Anybody that's a Democrat, he's going to try to get at," said fellow political science major Eric Schulz. |
Lennox's anti-Peters campaign shows no sign of slowing down, though his tactics have generated complaints. |
Both Lennox and college Dean Pamela Gates filed police complaints against each other after Lennox requested Peters' e-mails under the Freedom of Information Act. At one point in the brief video, also posted online, Gates it seen gesturing into the camera at close range, and it then goes out of focus, as if it has ... |
Lennox is heard saying, "Don't touch my camera," suggesting that Peters either touched it or attempted to. |
Lennox said he started videotaping Gates after she refused to take the request and ordered him out of her office. |
"She accosted, assaulted and battered me," Lennox said. "Whether you're a liberal or conservative, we all have to live and play by the same rules. I seemed to learn something in first grade that you keep your hands to yourself." |
No charges have been filed and the university is investigating the incident. But spokesman Steve Smith said that "people get very uncomfortable when a camera is shoved in their face. Employees and students have a reasonable expectation to privacy." |
When the school told Lennox he couldn't record employees or students without their permission, he filed a censorship complaint with the American Civil Liberties Union, which is reviewing it. |
Peters says requiring permission before filming is reasonable when it involves students' privacy, though he stops short of saying it should apply to public figures such as himself. |
"When you run for public office, you've got to have a thick skin," he said. |
Peters says somewhat ruefully that he has fulfilled his job description of bringing practical politics to campus. |
"Students are definitely seeing what happens when somebody runs for public office in a high-profile race, the types of things they have to confront," he said. |
Public and private health spending is projected to rise more this year than last as provincial governments loosen their purse strings against the backdrop of a growing economy, according to a new report that shows drug expenditures are a particularly fast-increasing share of total spending. |
In a report on national health expenditure trends dating back to 1975, the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) forecasts that individuals, private insurance companies and governments will collectively spend $242-billion on health care in 2017 – a nearly 4-per-cent increase over 2016, which had a more modes... |
"Generally since the last decade, health expenditures have just about kept pace with the 2-per-cent inflation and aging that's gone on," said Michael Hunt, director of health spending, strategic initiatives and primary health care at CIHI, an independent agency that crunches numbers on Canada's health-care system. "You... |
André Picard on hallway medicine: Do we really need more hospital beds? |
The annual report, being released Tuesday, marks CIHI's last examination of expenditures under the financial terms of the 2004 Canada Health Accord, which increased the federal health-care transfer by 6 per cent annually. The Liberal government this year inked deals with each of the provinces and territories that mean ... |
During the course of the negotiations, some provinces, particularly in the Maritimes, unsuccessfully tried to persuade Ottawa to adjust the transfer formula so that regions with a larger proportion of elderly residents receive extra money. The CIHI report states that while Canadians ages 65 and older constitute about 1... |
Combined public and private per capita health expenditure in 2017 is slated to vary significantly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. The report found that per-person spending is expected to range from a high of $17,150 in the Northwest Territories to a low of $6,321 in B.C. Mr. Hunt said the disparities lie largely in ... |
The report found that among the three largest spending categories – hospitals, drugs and physicians, which together account for more than 60 per cent of the overall expenditure – pharmaceutical costs continue to increase at the fastest pace. This has been true since 2015, due partly to the increased use of high-cost pa... |
Drug costs, of which nearly two-thirds are paid out-of-pocket or covered by private insurance plans, are expected to rise by 5.2 per cent in 2017. Public-sector drug plans vary from province to province, but in most places, the government picks up at least a portion of the tab for seniors, people on social assistance a... |
Raisa Deber, a professor of health policy at the University of Toronto, said the continued increase in drug spending fits into the debate around the merits of any future national pharmacare program. In September, the federal Parliamentary Budget Officer released a report predicting that universal coverage for prescript... |
Prof. Deber noted that, as indicated in the CIHI report, drug expenditures are even higher than the $1,086 a person forecast for 2017, since medications dispensed in hospitals or funded through cancer agencies are excluded from public drug tallies. Patients who are prescribed drugs in the hospital receive them free of ... |
In a separate CIHI report, also being released Tuesday, the agency dug deeper into what the provincial, territorial and federal governments are spending on prescription medicines. |
The report concluded that a growing share of public-drug spending goes to the 2.2 per cent of patients who take drugs that cost more than $10,000 per year – a finding that underscores the need to rein in the cost of cutting-edge treatments, experts said. Most of those sky-high bills were for drugs that treat rheumatoid... |
"A really expensive drug used to be thousands of dollars [a year] in the past, now it's tens of thousands of dollars," said Michael Law, a professor in the school of population and public health at the University of British Columbia. "It's probably going to get worse as more drugs like those come to market and the pric... |
Over all, the jurisdictions that shared their data with CIHI spent almost $9.2-billion on prescription drugs in 2016, a 4.5-per-cent increase over the year before. Last year's spending increase was not as steep as the 9.3-per-cent spike in 2015, when most of the country's public-drug programs began covering a new gener... |
1. Does not include Quebec and NWT. Includes the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch;2. Spending on other antivirals in Prince Edward Island is not included in NPDUIS; 3. Spending on ranibizumab and aflibercept (which accounted for 99.9% of spending on antineovascularization agents) in N.S., Man., B.C., and the major... |
Despite all the attention paid to hepatitis C drugs, another class of medications called tumour necrosis factor alpha inhibitors has accounted for the highest proportion of public drug-plan spending for the past five years. These drugs treat rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis and other chronic... |
The best-known brand names in the category are Remicade, Humira and Enbrel. |
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Word from authorities that Prince died of an overdose of fentanyl, a powerful opioid that is up to 50 times more potent than heroin, is far from the end of the investigation. In some ways, it's just the beginning. |
After Thursday's announcement about the superstar's death, investigators in the months to come will try to determine whether the singer had a prescription for the drug or whether it was supplied illegally. If it's the latter, someone could face criminal charges carrying years, or even decades, in prison. |
Prince was found dead April 21 at his Minneapolis-area estate, and at least one friend has said he suffered from intense knee and hip pain from many years of performances. |
Although the death was formally ruled an accident, that merely signified that it was not intentional and does not preclude a criminal prosecution. |
According to a one-page report released by a medical examiner, Prince administered the drug himself on an unknown date. The office said the death investigation is complete, and it had no further comment. |
Confirmation that Prince died of an opioid overdose was first reported by The Associated Press. The autopsy report was released hours later. |
Fentanyl is a synthetic painkiller. Patients who have built up a tolerance to other prescription painkillers sometimes seek it out, and it is partly responsible for a recent surge in overdose deaths in some parts of the country. Because of its risks, it is tightly controlled by the Food and Drug Administration, but muc... |
Kent Bailey, head of the DEA in Minneapolis, said the agency will continue investigating along with Carver County authorities and the U.S. Attorney's Office. He declined to offer details, but said "rest assured, we will be thorough." |
Legal experts say the focus of the investigation will now probably turn to whether the source or sources of the fentanyl were legal or not. Often, such investigations include grand jury subpoenas for records or for testimony from individuals. |
Authorities may also look to the singer's associates. |
"The investigation may expand to people who surround him," said Gal Pissetzky, a Chicago-based attorney who has represented multiple clients facing drug charges who has no link to Prince. "If fentanyl was obtained illegally, I don't think Prince would have gone out to meet someone in a dark alley to get the substance." |
If a street dealer was the source, identifying that person won't be easy. |
"It'll be very, very difficult," he said. "These guys don't write receipts, and they change phones all the time." |
Illegally distributing fentanyl to someone who then dies from it is punishable by a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years under federal law. Under Minnesota law, the same actions can result in third-degree murder charges and up to 25 years in prison. |
Prince, 57, died less than a week after his plane made an emergency stop in Moline, Illinois, for medical treatment as he was returning from an Atlanta concert. The Associated Press and other media reported, based on anonymous sources, that he was found unconscious on the plane, and first responders gave him a shot of ... |
The names of at least two doctors have come up in the death investigation. |
Dr. Michael Todd Schulenberg, a family practitioner, treated Prince twice in the weeks before his death and told investigators he prescribed medications for the singer, according to a search warrant that did not specify which medications. |
Schulenberg saw Prince April 7 and April 20 — the day before his death — according to the warrant. Schulenberg's attorney, Amy Conners, said the doctor was interviewed by investigators April 21, right after Prince's death, but has had "no further requests from investigators" since. She declined to comment further. |
Dr. Howard Kornfeld, a California addiction specialist, was asked by Prince's representatives on April 20 to help the singer. |
Kornfeld sent his son Andrew on a flight that night, and Andrew Kornfeld was among the people who found Prince's body the next morning, according to Kornfeld's attorney, William Mauzy. |
The younger Kornfeld, who is not a doctor, was carrying a medication that can be used to treat opioid addiction, Mauzy said, explaining that Andrew Kornfeld intended to give the medication to a Minnesota doctor who had cleared his schedule to see Prince on April 21. |
Mauzy has refused to identify that doctor. Schulenberg is not authorized to prescribe buprenorphine. |
On Thursday, Mauzy said his clients never delivered, dispensed or administered any medication to Prince. The Kornfelds "were simply trying to help," he said. |
Prince's death came two weeks after he canceled concerts in Atlanta, saying he wasn't feeling well. He played a pair of makeup shows, and then came the emergency landing in Moline. He canceled two shows in St. Louis shortly before his death. |
The superstar had a reputation for clean living, and some friends said they never saw any sign of drug use. |
Longtime friend and collaborator Sheila E. has told the AP that Prince had physical issues from performing, citing hip and knee problems that she said came from years of jumping off risers and stage speakers in heels. |
You know that saying "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas"? Yeah, well, that should really apply to the kinda stuff people wear on the golf course. Here's some of the most outrageous examples—whether you're inspired or horrified, just make sure you join us on the links for SAGI 2013! |
Clearly Quentin Tarantino needs to do ALL his costume designs. |
Those pants seriously look like what a jungle would look like if you ran over it with a truck. |
C'mon. Pretty sure there's pants in Sweden. |
We all remember the '90s, but it hasn't been the '80s for a really long time, Kim. |
Being patriotic is fine and all... just keep it in your hearts and minds. Not your pants. |
6. ... and don't wear it on your sleeves, either. |
Sure, they were just trying to fit in, but one thing the golf course NEEDS is some better fashion sense. |
8. Did you think we were done with John Daly? |
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