by admin | Nov 30, 2006 | News
Communities throughout Iowa are holding public-education events and offering health information tomorrow for “World AIDS Day”. Bryce Sitter, an educator with the Red Cross of Central Iowa, says there are still too many people unconcerned about the risk. A...
by admin | Jun 26, 2006 | Health & Medicine
Some 23-hundred Iowans are known to have H-I-V yet several hundred more likely have the virus that causes AIDS but don’t know it. Tuesday is National H-I-V Testing Day and free AIDS and hepatitis tests are being offered in several cities, including Des Moines....
by admin | Apr 24, 2006 | Politics & Government
Tennessee Senator Bill Frist, the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate, is in Iowa today and a group pushing for changes in distribution of federal AIDS treatment dollars is urging Frist to act. The Ryan White Care Act gives too much money to cities and not enough to...
by admin | Mar 20, 2006 | Human Interest
This week two more Iowa cities will join the “One” campaign that seeks an end to extreme poverty and AIDS in Africa. Reverend Russ Melby, the Iowa director for the Church World Service, is a volunteer leader for the “One” campaign in Iowa....
by admin | Feb 27, 2006 | Politics & Government
A coalition of Iowa groups is pushing federal lawmakers to modernize the “Ryan White CARE Act” — which is legislation that deals with the treatment of AIDS. Ako Abdul-Samad runs “Creative Visions,” an organization in Des Moines that helps...
