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Local Events Focus On HIV Testing, Awareness
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is conducting a three-week tour featuring a mobile testing unit named for former National Basketball Association player Earvin "Magic" Johnson that provides free HIV testing to local residents, WDSU.com reports. During the tour, which recently stopped in New Orleans, AHF will present $5,000 grants to local HIV/AIDS organizations (WDSU.com, 6/14). In related news, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) sponsored a health awareness festival in Pensacola, Fla. that sought to raise HIV/AIDS awareness among the black community as part of its annual state convention. According to Art Rocker, head of the local SCLC chapter, since 2007, there has been an increase in the number of people living with HIV/AIDS in Escambia County, Fla., which prompted the organization to focus its event on HIV/AIDS (Dugas, Pensacola News Journal, 6/14).
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Study Finds Workplace Health Care Significantly Increases Adherence To Medications, Potentially Saving Health Care Dollars
A new study shows that patients who use workplace primary care and pharmacy services have higher adherence rates to medications for chronic conditions, suggesting that by investing in integrated workplace health and pharmacy programs companies can realize health care savings while also improving patient outcomes.
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A Cancer Gene Switch For Repairing Damaged DNA
Scientists at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology uncover how an important cancer gene, BRCA1, works by increasing the accuracy with which broken DNA is repaired. Women who inherit a faulty version of the BRCA1 gene are at a higher risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer.
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Counselling To Overcome Challenges, UK

Counsellors from around the world will meet to discuss their role in helping people deal with social, cultural, economic and natural challenges at the 2009 International Association for Counselling (IAC) Counference organised by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). The event, "Counselling and the challenge of social transformations: promoting human dignity across the lifespan", takes place from 22-26 July at the University of Warwick and will focus on how counselling can add value to people"s lives as they confront major global challenges to health and well-being. Discussion will take place around the role of counselling in assisting children and young people in crisis, and its benefits in work with survivors of natural disasters. Other issues to be discussed will include the use of counselling to challenge HIV/AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses, and its place in promoting gender equality, the integrity of the family, and peace and human rights. Keynote speakers at the conference are: - Camila Batmanghelidjh, psychotherapist and founder/director of children"s charity Kids Company. - Helen Bamber, psychotherapist and founder of the Helen Bamber Foundation which helps survivors of gross human rights violations. - Professor Ching-Mey See, Professor in the School of Educational Studies at the University of Science, Malaysia. British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy


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