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HIV Care in the Black Community

It's Our Community and It's Our Fight

Prevention And Testing: How To Talk With Patients

If A Patient Tests Positive

Common HIV-Care Myths Among Docs

Calling All Doctors

Fears vs. Facts

HIV DOCS SHARE TREATMENT SMARTS

Give and Get Support at www.POZ.com

Adhere To This

Resources For Non-HIV Docs

Resources For Your Patients

HIV Docs Share Treatment Smarts

HIV Medications and Pregnancy
 

Most Talked About

HIV: Behind the Music (47)

An HIV Doc's Dilemma (29)

Virtual Prevention: Fighting HIV Online (26)

Inmate Testing: Optional or Mandatory? (18)

Killer Gay Sex! (15)

Most Popular Lessons

Herpes Simplex Virus

Syphilis & Neurosyphilis

Shingles

The HIV Life Cycle

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)

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Calling All Doctors

The National Medical Association will soon ask members to encourage  hiv testing during twice-annual drives—between May 15 and June 19 (to coincide with Juneteenth) and from November 1 through 30 (leading up to World AIDS Day)—says Wilbert Jordan, MD, medical director of the Oasis clinic in Los Angeles and principal investigator for the project. for more info, visit www.nmanet.org or call 202-347-1895.


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