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The purpose of this page is to provide you with a variety of information relevant to the issue of HIV/AIDS. It will include lists of HIV/AIDS related California legislation, press releases and articles relating to HIV/AIDS, the score cards of California legislators and the Governor of California on HIV/AIDS related California legislation and other related material.

This web site is designed to be of use to those interested in these issue and to community activists interested in these issues. People are encouraged to make suggestions as to what material should be added to these pages. Anyone may do that by sending a message to  b.hinman@calcomui.org with a suggestion.


                                         HIV/AIDS Policy Demands

On November 20, 2008 an  HIV/AIDS march was held in Washington, DC. The marchers were demonstrating in support of a list of demands on the federal government, which they hope will be enacted by the new administration of President Obama. You may see the list of demands  by clicking here.

To see a list of the California HIV/AIDS bills addressed by CalComUI click on the following link.

                        AIDS Bills Addressed By CalComUI

                                International AIDS Issues

We in the United States often think of HIV/AIDs as an American Issue and as one that affects mainly gay men. However, the truth is that the United States ranks 7th among nations, worldwide, in the number of HIV/AIDS cases. HIV and AIDS are occurring at very high numbers in Southern Africa and South Asia. And most of the cases in those nations are among heterosexual persons.

You can see a list of the number of cases per nation by clicking here.

To see a document detailing the 2010 federal AIDS strategic plan click the following link:

Federal AIDS Strategy 2010.

                                        Newsflashes

10-13-11 Governor Signs Six HIV/AIDS Bills

09-30-11 British Allow Some Gay Men To Donate Blood - US May Do So Too

07-30-10 Dramatic AIDS Declaration Issued

07-13-10 New National AIDS Strategy Announced 

07-10-10 An Exciting AIDS Development
                                                                      NewsFlashes
02-18-10 Reports Show Medical Marijuana Works

01-22-10 Court Ends Limits On Medical Marijuana

Disturbing News About HIV

Good News Bad News In Health Care Bill

President Signs Ryan White Re-authorization Bill

President To Lift Travel Ban On HIV Positive People
                                    

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2011 Scorecards For California Legislature On AIDS/HIV Issues

California 2011 Legislative Score Card

We acknowledge, with gratitude, that the following score cards are made possible by Capitol Track. (http://www.capitoltrack.com)

The purpose of the score cards below is to tell you the scores that California Communities United Institute (CalComUI) has given to the voting records of California's state legislators on HIV/AIDS related legislation. To see the scores we have assigned to each legislator, click the links below.

The legislator's tables below will tell you how each legislator voted on each bill. In all cases, CalComUI supported the bill. So, a score of "1" for a bill means the legislator voted for the bill, a score of "0" means the legislator voted against the bill, and a score of "0.5" means the legislator was absent or abstained from voting on that bill.

The legislator's scores for each bill in the following tables is assigned on the basis of a legislator's vote on the floor of the Senate or Assembly. We did not score legislator's votes in committees.

You can look at the tables to see how your Senator and Assembly Member voted on the bills. If you don't remember who they are, links near the top of each table will enable you to find out who they are.

If you have Excel on your computer, you can download any of the following tables and sort them in any way you like. For example, you might want to sort them by Party and then do an average score for the legislators in either or both parties. By contrast, you can sort them by score to see which legislators had the highest scores and which the lowest.

Legislators are fund raising for their next election. If a legislator comes to you for a donation, you may want to check his or her scores on the tables below to see if you want to support that legislator. The score cards may also help you to decide whom you want to vote for.

To see the score cards, click on the links below. (Note: Please be patient. Some of the Score Cards open slowly.)

2011 California Assembly HIV/AIDS Legislative Score Card

2011 California Senate HIV/AIDS Legislative Score Card

HIV/AIDS  Service Agencies In California

Click on the following links to see lists of HIV/AIDS service agencies In California.

          HIV/AIDS Service Organizations Northern California, Southern California, Statewide

Who Represents Me?

Find out who represents you. Get all the contact information on the President, the Governor of California and of the legislators who represent you in the US Congress and the California legislature by clicking on the following link:

Who Represents Me.

Medical Marijuana

California Supreme Court Decision on Medical Marijuana

                                          Newsflashes

02-18-10 Reports Show Medical Marijuana Works

01-22-10 Court Ends Limits On Medical Marijuana

HIV And People Who Use Drugs

The journal The Lancet has published a series highlighting what they term the “largely unpublicized and growing HIV epidemic” among people who use drugs.

“The Series tackles the myths surrounding HIV and people who use drugs, and subjects as diverse as women and drugs to the effect of amphetamines, alcohol, and human rights on the epidemic. The issues surrounding antiretroviral HIV treatment, opioid substitution therapy, and needle and syringe programmes are covered in depth, as are the social issues around decriminalisation of drug users and reducing intimidation, stigmatisation, and imprisonment of drug users.”

To read the articles, click on the links below. (Note: It will be necessary to register with Lancet, but registration is free.)
    
12 myths about HIV/AIDS and people who use drugsChris Beyrer, Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Steffanie A Strathdee Full Text | PDF  

Alcohol: the forgotten drug in HIV/AIDSKatherine Fritz, Neo Morojele, Seth Kalichman Full Text | PDF  Treatment and care for injecting drug users with HIV infection: a review of barriers and ways forwardDaniel Wolfe, M Patrizia Carrieri, Donald Shepard Summary | Full Text | PDF  

Amphetamine-group substances and HIVGrant Colfax, Glenn-Milo Santos, Priscilla Chu, Eric Vittinghoff, Andreas Pluddemann, Suresh Kumar, Carl Hart Summary | Full Text | PDF  

Time to act: a call for comprehensive responses to HIV in people who use drugsChris Beyrer, Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Michel Kazatchkine, Michel Sidibe, Steffanie A Strathdee Summary | Full Text | PDF  

Vienna Declaration: a call for evidence-based drug policiesEvan Wood, Dan Werb, Michel Kazatchkine, Thomas Kerr, Catherine Hankins, Robin Gorna, David Nutt, Don Des Jarlais, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Julio Montaner Full Text | PDF

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