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456 Atlanta colonoscopy patients warned of infection risk

...warning 456 patients that their colonoscopies might have put them at risk of HIV and other diseases.Piedmont Healthcare has advised the patients that they should be tested for HIV as well as hepatitis B and hepatitis C.The concerns involve surgeries...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2013-05-01/456-atlanta-colonoscopy-pati
60 percent of youth with HIV don't know they are infected, CDC says

About 60 percent of young people with HIV don't know they are infected, leading...accounted for less than seven percent of all HIV cases in the U.S. in 2009 but made up more than a quarter - 25.7 percent - of new HIV infections in 2010. With 12,200 new infections...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2012-11-27/60-percent-youth-hiv-dont-kn
Atlanta to pay $250,000 to settle lawsuit over police candidate with HIV

ATLANTA - A man with HIV who said he was denied a position with the...they can't rely upon outdated notions of HIV and its transmission to shape their policies," said Scott Schoettes, Lambda Legal's HIV project director.Police referred questions...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2012-08-22/atlanta-pay-250000-settle-lawsuit-o
Barney's Pharmacy to advance HIV testing, outreach

An estimated one in five people with HIV do not know they have it, but a pharmacy...part of a pilot program to expand rapid HIV testing and public education through a partnership...different disease states. So why should HIV/AIDS be any different?"The test is...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2012-10-31/barneys-pharmacy-advance-hiv
Georgia eliminates waiting list for HIV/AIDS drugs

...and uninsured people in Georgia who need medication to treat HIV and AIDS will no longer need to be placed on a waiting list...their jobs and health insurance and because of more aggressive HIV testing.Created in July 2010, the waiting list for the AIDS...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2012-08-25/georgia-eliminates-waiting-l
Physician assistant student's care wins Beard Award at Georgia Regents University

...transportation.There is the psychiatric patient held in isolation with HIV and a history of drug-resistant bacteria, shunned by many...the Adult and Geriatric Inpatient Psychiatry unit. With the HIV patient in isolation, Prince-Coleman took him magazines to...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2013-05-09/physician-assistant-students
Georgia could lose federal money for not participating in survey on teen sex

...to $1.8 million in grants for programs aimed at preventing HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution...He noted Georgia reported more than 2,500 newly diagnosed HIV cases in 2011 ? the fifth highest total among U.S. states...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-05-25/refusing-teen-sex-survey-cost
HIV-infected man fights to become Atlanta police officer

...his job application solely because he has HIV, a decision he said breaks the law and...pseudonym Richard Roe. "People are living with HIV and, for the most part, they are living...police department. He discovered he had HIV in 1997 but said it didn't hinder his...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-01-24/hiv-infected-man-fights-becom
HIV/AIDS clinic getting $3 million

The HIV/AIDS clinic at Georgia Health Sciences University...300 patients and do outreach such as rapid HIV testing.The funding is even more critical...smaller providers that might have only a few HIV patients and lack the staff to do the contacts...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2012-02-20/hivaids-clinic-getting-3-mil
Director of Case Management Job in Augusta, Georgia US | Monster.com

...medical necessity, Home Health discharge coordination function, and the Disease Management Programs - CHF, Asthma/COPD and RVD/HIV. Education: Bachelors Degree in Nursing required. Masters Degree in a health care related field such as nursing, business...

http://jobview.local-jobs.monster.com/Director-of-Case-Management-Job-Augusta-GA
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