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FACT Bucks County BINGO, The New Hope Eagle Fire House and Cornerstone Clubs, a great team…. UPCOMING 2014 BINGO DATES:  Wednesday, September 17 (Hooray for the Red White and Blue BINGO) and Wednesday, December 10 (Jingle Bell BINGO) Cornerstone Clubs is proud to announce a partnership with The New Hope Eagle Fire Company in their newest venture of continually creating Community. The New Hope Eagle banquet hall, with its long history of Community events, will now be managed by the Cornerstone Clubs with the mission of becoming a hub for Community gatherings. “It is a testament to everyone living in …

Information from National Regional Resource Network Program These new 30 and 60 second video PSAs feature an overprotective father doing everything he can to make sure his son and family are protected. A narrator encourages parents like this father to also take care of themselves and get tested for Hepatitis B to protect their families. 1 in 12 Asian Americans has Hepatitis B, but most people infected don’t know it. These videos are part of CDC’s multi-lingual Know Hepatitis B campaign, conducted in partnership with Hep B United. Each PSA features English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese and Korean native speakers. Click …

Information from National Regional Resource Network Program  and AIDS.gov Last week, the White House Office of Public Engagement and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services hosted a briefing for LGBT, HIV/AIDS, and health advocates to discuss best practices, innovative strategies, and new resources to help LGBT communities get covered. Click here to continue reading.    

Information from National Regional Resource Network Program In July the CDC featured an HIV-infected smoker as part of its highly successful anti-smoking campaign “Tips from Former Smokers,” which tells the stories of real people harmed by smoking. Click here to continue reading.

Recently, the LGBTQA youth, who are part of the Rainbow Room-The Curve-The Spectrum Program for Planned Parenthood Keystone, created an inspirational video, which is posted on their FACEBOOK Page.  It is a video on why they need the programs that Planned Parenthood Keystone offers them.  Planned Parenthood Keystone is proud to be a source of non-judgmental Health Care & Information.  To view the video, go to….https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152070906317665&set=vb.121722247664&type=2&theater   

Article as MSNBC web published 07/06/2014 by Kelsey Louie May 14 should have been PrEP’s big coming out moment. That’s when the federal government issued new guidelines urging doctors to adopt the use of PrEP – a powerful tool that when used daily is over 90% effective in preventing new HIV infections. But for most gay Americans, the news hardly registered. As a longtime HIV/AIDS advocate, I was puzzled. After all, these guidelines represent a huge victory for HIV prevention advocates who have championed PrEP’s wider use since its initial FDA approval in 2012. The U.S. Public Health Service and the Centers for …

As taken from MSNBC on-line news… Just hours before more than 1 million people gathered in the streets of New York City to celebrate gay rights in the 45th annual pride parade 2014 , New York Governor Andrew Cuomo released a plan to end the AIDS epidemic and reduce HIV infections in the state. Laid out in three parts, the Democrat’s plan, “Bending the Curve” focuses on improving testing of the disease, treating those who are infected, and preventing the spread of the infection: 1. Identifying persons with HIV who remain undiagnosed and linking them to health care. 2. Linking and retaining persons …

Article as it appeared in March 2014 AIDSMEDS… Two years into the second major study examining the chances of transmitting HIV with an undetectable viral load, there have been no transmissions between either gay or heterosexual serodiscordant partners, aidsmap reports. The previous major study investigating this matter, HPTN 052, which looked primarily at heterosexual couples of mixed HIV status, found that antiretroviral (ARV) treatment reduced the likelihood of transmission by 96 percent. Results from the new PARTNER study were presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston. The study included 1,110 heterosexual and gay serodiscordant couples, …

Federal Website (Information supplied by Regional Resource Network Program/US Dept of Health and Human Services) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention’s “Prevention Through Health Care” focus area develops, implements, and evaluates policies and practices that leverage the health care system to help prevent HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, STD, and TB infections.    Click here to view the website.

Non-Government Resource (Information supplied by Regional Resource Network Program/US Dept of Health and Human Services) Through a combination of a new recommendation in support of HCV testing and changes to the health insurance landscape under the Affordable Care Act, there will be greater access to insurance coverage and to reimbursable HCV screening across various healthcare payers. This paper offers guidance on each major payer’s role.  Click here to read the guide.