Project Inform's PI Perspective eNews: September 2008

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Jack Mackenroth to host runway at Evening of Hope

Project Inform to lead national PrEP group

Help get Medicaid funds to states

Report back from Int'l AIDS Conference

Urge Obama/McCain to address HCV care

FDA approves indication for HPV vaccine

PI welcomes new hotline manager

Interferon may help treat TB

PI position on Swiss Gov't statement

grim situation and last-minute care

After starting to have problems with her gait, speech and thinking, a Florida woman's step-mother called Project Inform's Hotline to get more information on the serious condition called PML.

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Project Runway’s Jack Mackenroth to host the runway for Project Inform’s 2008 Evening of Hope

Please join us for Project Inform’s newly revamped Evening of Hope on Wednesday, October 15 — a Condom Couture Fashion show with designs crafted from condoms! So get ready as our annual fundraiser debuts its newest look — taking to the runway at the fabulous new InterContinental Hotel in San Francisco. (Image design by Catherine Jane.) Read more.

Project Inform helps lead new national PrEP working group.

Project Inform has moved into the biomedical prevention arena by helping to lead a national working group addressing a potentially exciting new HIV intervention strategy. Read more.

HCAU ACTION ALERT:
Urge Obama/McCain to include hepatitis C care in messages.

Advocates around the country are urging both major Presidential candidates to address the hepatitis C epidemic during the final months of their campaigns. You can make a difference by writing two important letters! Read more.

Project Inform welcomes new hotline manager.

Project Inform is pleased to announce the hiring of Alejandra Cano into the newly created position, Bilingual Hotline Services and Community Outreach Manager. Read more.

Project Inform’s position on the Swiss Government’s statement on HIV treatment as prevention.

Project Inform further clarifies its position to the February 2008 report commissioned by the Swiss Government. Read more.

HIV HEALTH CARE ACCESS WORK GROUP ALERT:
Help get badly needed extra
Medicaid funding to states.

The second economic stimulus bill is being readied in Congress. Encourage your leaders to include a temporary relief to states that may be forced to cut back on their Medicaid programs — the largest public payer of services for people living with HIV. Read more.

PI Perspective #46 now available.

Project Inform attended the 2008 International AIDS Conference in Mexico City and now reports back with the latest information on approved and experimental drugs and opportunistic infections as well as immune and cure based research. Read more.

FDA approves new indication for HPV vaccine.

Gardasil, the only approved vaccine for preventing HPV infection and cervical cancer, receives extended indications for preventing vaginal and vulva cancers. Read more.

Interferon gamma may lead to new option for treating tuberculosis.

New treatments are desparately needed for treating TB, globally the leading cause of death in people living with HIV. A new study has used interferon gamma as a way to treat those who haven't started HIV therapy. Read more.