Tag: HIV/AIDS

World AIDS Day: New York State Department of Health Honors Dr. Jay Dobkin

On World AIDS Day, Wednesday, December 1st, Jay Dobkin, MD, Chief Medical Officer for VNS Health, received a Commissioner’s Special Recognition Award from the New York State Department of Health for his commitment, research, and significant contributions in the field of HIV/AIDS. Every year, this award recognizes individuals who are leaders in promoting improvements in HIV health, LGBT health, substance-user health, youth sexual health, trauma-informed care, and the prevention and treatment of Hepatitis C and STIs. SelectHealth extends our heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Dobkin for this well-deserved honor!

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National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: Don’t Let Age Force You Back into the Closet

February 7th was designated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, and the theme for this year’s observance was Together for Love: Stop HIV Stigma. With this in mind, LGBTQ Program Manager Arthur Fitting, from the not-for-profit VNS Health, sat down with Aundaray Guess, Deputy Director at GRIOT Circle, a community-based, multi-generational organization serving LGBTQ elders of color in the Greater New York area, for a discussion about Aging and HIV/AIDS in the Black Community. Read the full story in Medium.

Aging with HIV/AIDS: Be “Extra Vigilant” About Mental Health

To mark important awareness days such as National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day, National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day and World AIDS Day, Arthur Fitting, VNS Health LGBTQ Program and Community Outreach Manager, interviewed key experts on the wide-ranging topic of aging with HIV/AIDS. We will be looking at what people with HIV, partners, caregivers, communities and the health care industry can do to help expand knowledge, reduce HIV stigma, and promote healthy aging. The first dialogue in the series, with Stephen E. Karpiak, PhD, Director of GMHC’s National Resource Center on HIV & Aging can be found here. Today’s conversation is with Mark Brennan-Ing, PhD, senior research scientist at Hunter College’s Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging.

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Aging with HIV/AIDS: You Can Modify the Aging Arc

To mark National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day on September 18, Arthur Fitting, LGBT Program Director at VNS Health, is interviewing key experts on this wide-ranging topic, looking at what people with HIV, partners, caregivers, communities and the health care industry can do to help expand knowledge, reduce HIV stigma, and promote healthy aging. Today’s conversation is with Stephen E. Karpiak, PhD, lead HIV and Aging researcher with Gay Men’s Health Crisis and Director of the National Resource Center on HIV & Aging.

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From AIDS to the Coronavirus and Beyond: Let’s Break the Shackles of History, Together

Medium has featured Arthur Fitting, VNS Health Director of LGBTQ Community Outreach and Programs, in an opinion piece that links to the VNS Health PRIDE 2020 “We Are the World” video, is a call-to-action for “bringing all communities to the healthcare table” and recognizing that “we are all connected to one another.”

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