Our 14th Annual New Hope & Lambertville AIDS WALK is happening this weekend on Sunday, October 6th. This is always an amazing fund raiser with equally amazing people! My heartfelt thanks go to our sponsors, walkers, volunteers, the river towns of New Hope & Lambertville and their police & staff, the High School, all those who have donated to our walkers, those businesses that have donated food and prizes, and especially to our AIDS WALK Committee, headed by our board member, Herb Andrus. Our hard working all-volunteer board also gets a huge thank you, for not only the AIDS WALK, …
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FACT Grants Funds to HiTOPS
HiTOPS was established in 1987 as a youth-focused healthcare and education center to address concerns for the HIV epidemic and requests for reproductive healthcare. Over HiTOPS 25 year history, programs and services have expanded to address the changing health needs of young people, ages 11 to 26, and to serve the increasing number of requests for services throughout the state. HiTOPS is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the intended impact of healthy, empowered youth who make health-enhancing choices and avoid long-term negative health outcomes. To accomplish this, HiTOPS implements a 3-pronged model of health education (prevention and risk reduction), healthcare …
FACT Gives Grant to LifeTies
Located in Mercer County and expanding to other areas, for 30 years LifeTies has advanced its mission of providing quality care and services to youth in crisis due to sexual orientation, gender, abuse, neglect, homelessness and various health issues. Through their four programs: RAINBOW HOUSE, group home for medically fragile female youth with HIV/AIDS, Lupus and/or Diabetes; TRIAD HOUSE, group home for abused and homeless LGBT youth; T.I.L.T. (Teen Independent Living Training), life skills program for adolescents; and MARY’S PLACE, permanent supportive housing program for aging out youth, many lives have been changed for the better. FACT is honored to …
World AIDS Day is Sunday, December 1
World AIDS Day on 1 December brings together people from around the world to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and demonstrate international solidarity in the face of the pandemic. The day is an opportunity for public and private partners to spread awareness about the status of the pandemic and encourage progress in HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care in high prevalence countries and around the world. Between 2011-2015, World AIDS Days will have the theme of “Getting to zero: zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS related deaths”. The World AIDS Campaign focus on “Zero AIDS related deaths” signifies a push …
A Big FACT Thank You to all of our AIDS Walk sponsors 2013
Volunteer Time Off at Health Strategies Group assists FACT
Health Strategies Group (HSG) has been providing research-based sales and marketing intelligence to the pharmaceutical and biotech industry since 1992. With an unmatched depth and body of knowledge, they offer the expertise to assemble information and, more importantly, the unique talent to translate it into business implications and actionable recommendations. From syndicated research to consulting services and client-private projects, the insight they provide in managed markets, brand management, and sales force effectiveness improves their clients’ sales and marketing effectiveness. Ultimately, HSG helps clients increase sales and profitability—which is why 95% of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies work with Health …
Quarterly Letter from the President of FACT, Louis Licitra
I can’t believe that we are now in August and I am writing to you about the September and December BINGO Events and the October 6th Annual AIDS Walk…this year is moving right along for sure! The John Lennon Art Show and Sale sponsored by Yoko Ono and FACT gave us a door donation of $2,600.00. I want to give a big FACT thank you to Yoko Ono and Legacy Productions for including FACT as part of this event. Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA) granted FACT another $5,000.00 this year. The Bucks County Playhouse will be hosting the BC/EFA and …
Jingle Bell BINGO, Wednesday, December 11
FACT gets you in the Holiday Spirit with our traditional Jingle Bell Bingo! Join us for all of the fun and this time you get a “holiday dinner” with entry fee of $20. Not only will FACT be serving some riotous fun, but THE RAVEN will be offering Turkey Dinner with all the trimmings. Cash ticketed bar is available. Pumpkin calls the numbers with help from her elf, Big Sue and FACT’s 50/50 “girls”. Got an ugly holiday sweater? Wear it to BINGO and you may be the winner of our UGLY HOLIDAY SWEATER CONTEST! Wednesday, December 11 at the New Hope Eagle Fire …
Lifesaving HIV Treatment Could Reach Millions More People Following Landmark Study
Millions more people could get access to life-saving HIV drug therapy, following a landmark study led by Australian researchers based at the Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). The researchers have found a lower daily dose of an important HIV drug therapy is safe and as effective in suppressing the virus as the standard recommended dose. The findings have been presented at the International AIDS Society Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. “This has the potential to affect the treatment of millions of HIV positive people,” says UNSW Professor Sean Emery, the protocol chairperson of the …
HIV/AIDS Vaccines: Defining What Works
Designing an effective HIV/AIDS vaccine is something of a paradox: a good vaccine would be safe and look enough like HIV to kick-start the immune system into neutralizing the virus — but the problem is that this is exactly what the human immune system has trouble doing even when it’s exposed to the real thing. Now a team of researchers led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA has developed a strategy for inducing a key part of an effective immune response to HIV. By tracing the evolution of HIV-recognizing molecules called antibodies taken from …