Sykes, Lopez bring new colors to late-night TV
(Los Angeles) In the blink of an eye, late-night TV is shifting from a white men’s club to the start of a rainbow coalition.
Wanda Sykes’ weekly Fox comedy show debuts 11 p.m. EST Saturday, followed by George Lopez’s four-night-a-week talk show on TBS, starting 11 p.m. EST Monday. They join …
Tags: Blink Of An Eye, Colors, Comedy Show, Fox, George Lopez, Late Night Tv, Rainbow Coalition, Talk Show, Wanda Sykes, White MenIndiana removes gay white men from HIV/AIDS funding priorities
The Indiana State Department of Health recently cut gay white men as an HIV/AIDS funding priority. African-American and Hispanic men who have sex with men are still included as priority populations. The decision was made by the department’s advisory Community Planning Group (CPG).
The CPG is a Center for Disease Control (CDC) mandated process for funding HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programs in the states; it aims to be politics-free and representative of the community. The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) administers CDC HIV/AIDS prevention funds. Indiana health activists charge that the Group ignored the CDC’s criteria for defining community priorities.
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SF fails to cut HIV in gay men by 50 percent
San Francisco health officials set for themselves a fairly high mark five years ago in their fight against HIV: reduce new infections among gay and bi men by 50 percent by 2008.
Based on the latest estimates for new HIV infection rates in San Francisco, the city failed to reach its goal. It did achieve a roughly 10 percent reduction in HIV rates and has downgraded classifying its HIV epidemic to now being endemic, meaning rates are remaining flat from year to year.
Back in 2004, when the reduction target was included in the San Francisco HIV Prevention Plan, the health department estimated there were 1,082 new infections of HIV each year, with gay and bi men accounting for 835 of those cases.
Today, the city has reduced those estimates, with approximately 975 new HIV infections expected each year, with gay and bi men accounting for 772 of those cases. The bulk of those individuals continue to be among white men.
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