I'm Still Not Tired - Larkin Callaghan

Larkin Callaghan recently completed her doctorate in health behavior and public health education at Columbia, focusing on women's health and global health development. With research and program experience in HIV and sexual health, social network building, trauma and violence, drug and alcohol abuse, and how socioeconomic status and history of abuse contribute to health and social mobility, she specializes in women's and adolescent health, population health, communication and social marketing and the health of vulnerable populations - and how they relate to one another. She also works as a UN Correspondent for MediaGlobal, covering issues affecting the least developed countries, with a not-exclusive focus on global health. She posts about public health, sociology and social justice, human rights, research, and gender. She manages the Reproductive Health Daily Tumblr and is a fellow in Health Communication and Epidemiology at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health, where she writes and uses social and new media to promote research that focuses on health disparities, access and rights. She’s an avid runner and a California loyalist, and also posts longer opinion pieces on I'm Not Tired Yet at https://larkincallaghan.wordpress.com/.
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reprohealthdaily:

Circumcision to prevent HIV and STDs is a very contentious issue - but it is often greatly misunderstood and the arguments simplified. Check out my latest post on the The 2x2 Project and find out why context, consent, and risk are essential to the debate.

pritheworld:

The vast bulk of donor health funding to low- and middle-income countries goes to AIDS, TB, and malaria - despite the larger death toll from cancer.

(via pubhealth)

Check out my latest post over at the 2x2 Project, about HIV criminalization laws. Learn about how they impact public health and prevention education efforts.

reprohealthdaily:

NPR has a fantastic infographic that shows the spread of HIV from 1990 covering a range of countries, the charting of HIV and country wealth (this photo), and the spread by region - check out their post to see the highlighting features of the graph.

A new report by the IPS shows that most women in Argentina recently infected with HIV had the virus transmitted to them by partners they believed to be stable and with whom they had believed themselves to be in committed partnerships with - sometimes for years. This poses a host of new issues to address in reproductive health in Argentina. What are your thoughts?

pubhealth:

New H.I.V. Cases Steady Despite Better Treatment

Despite years of great progress in treating AIDS, the number of new infections with the virus that causes it has remained stubbornly around 50,000 a year in the United States for a decade, according to new figures released on Wednesday by federal officials.

How much the average American woman spends on healthcare in a lifetime. Original infographic is by Good, to see it much more clearly, find it here. Some of these are obviously needed by men as well, but some are not - the total cost of the combination is what we’re interested in. As well as the fact that more frequent screenings are sometimes needed for women; for example, STI testing during the duration of a pregnancy.

Concurrency and Reachability.

This is a fascinating video showing the spread of an infection (transmission) within a network. Its purpose is to show how concurrent partnerships (in this example, looking at HIV infection between partners) can lead to a greater risk of transmission within a network. It summarizes by noting that while only 5% (or even less) of the population had concurrent partnerships at the start, this 5% daily prevalence of concurrency doubled epidemic potential compared to a population of the same size with monogamous couplings.

The CDC’s drive to increase HIV testing proved successful, as 18,000 people who did not realize they were infected discovered their HIV+ status. Since the majority of new infections come from people who do not realize they are infected, this is particularly important. Last Monday was HIV testing - have you been tested yet?