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May, 2008 | | (05/01) Haemonetics Sets Date for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year End 2008 Earnings Release and Conference Call | Haemonetics Corporation (NYSE:HAE) will announce its Q4FY08 and FYE08 earnings on May 1, 2008 in a pre-market press release and 10:00 am (EDT) conference call. Conference Call Dial-In Information (888) 802-8577 (US & Canada) (973) 935-8754 (International) ID: 42384135 This call will be replayed through May 16, 2008 at 5:00 pm (EDT). To access the replay, please dial:
(800) 642-1687 (US & Canada) (706) 645-9291 (International) Pin #42384135 Contact: Julie Fallon Tel: (781) 356-9517 Alt. Tel: (617) 320-2401 fallon@haemonetics.com | | | | (05/03) APA ANNUAL MEETING, MAY 3-8, 2008 | | The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) will sponsor 34 symposia and 4 major lectures at this year's American Psychiatric Association (APA) annual meeting. NIMH also plans several press conferences with leading experts who will talk about the latest research on the topics of post-traumatic stress disorder and reducing violence; psychiatric risk and the developing brain; mental disorders, metabolism and cardiovascular risks; brain mechanisms of bipolar disorder and major depression; and epigenetics and prospects for new treatments for depression. Click title for more information. | | | | (05/03) APA Annual Meeting, May 3-8, 2008 | | What: National Institute of Mental Health science track symposia, lectures, press conferences at the American Psychiatric Association 161st Annual Meeting. Why: Opportunity to hear latest research on mental disorders and their treatment.When: May 3-8, 2008 Where: Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC. The APA annual meeting communications center/press room serves as a media briefing room and a working press room. The location will be Room 206, Level 2, of the Washington Convention Center. Press room hours of operation are Saturday, May 3, 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; Sunday-Wednesday, May 4-7, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.; and Thursday, May 8, 8:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. All hours are Eastern Standard Time. | | | | (05/04) API Wellness Center: People Paddle | | 200 Paddlers and 25+ AIDS Service Organizations Raising Bucks for the HIV/AIDS Community. Click title for details. | | | | (05/06) The Harm Reduction Coalition and the Safe Injection Room (SIR) Subcommittee of the Injection Drug User Health Alliance invite you to a Safe Injection Room Forum | Speaker: Dr Ingrid van Beek, Medical Director of the Sydney (Australia) Medically Supervised Injecting Centre and Director of the Kirketon Road Centre, a primary health care facility of Sydney Hospital
What: Dr. van Beek will talk about the experience of opening, running and sustaining a medically supervised injecting center in Sydney, Australia. There are sixty-five SIRs in twenty-seven cities and eight countries: Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Australia, Norway, Luxembourg, and Canada. There are no legal sites in the US. SIRs provide a myriad of health services to drug users, including:
* Supervision of injections, including emergency response to drug overdoses.
* Care for injection-related injuries, such as soft tissue infections.
* Assessment and referral to primary health care and service providers.
* Harm reduction education and counseling.
* Exchange of condoms, syringes and injection equipment, and safer-smoking materials.
Date: 2:00 PM 4:00 PM May 6th.
Location: Open Society Institute, 400 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019
Please RSVP: to safeinjectionroom@harmreduction.org as space is limited
To Be Continued: at the "Towards a National Policy: the 7th Nat'l Harm Reduction Conference" Nov. 2008 http://harm.live.radicaldesigns.org/article.php?list=type&type=60
For Details click title. Dr. van Beek is the author of Eye of the Needle http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/2/1/15 | | | | (05/08) Southern California Hollywood Bowls 3 | WHERE: Lucky Strike Torrance, Del Amo Fashion Center 3525 Carson Street, Torrance California
WHEN: Thursday, May 8 6PM - 9PM ~ Click title | | | | (05/15) LATINO ORGANIZATION FOR LIVER AWARENESS SPONSORING NEW YORK CITY | The Latino Organization for Liver Awareness (LOLA) is sponsoring its fourth annual New York City Hepatitis C Walk. This event will take place on May 15, 2008, with registration from 9:00– 11:30 a.m. The walk will begin at 12:00 noon at Battery Park and end at City Hall Park. Admission is free. The goal of the walk is to encourage New York City residents to get a free HCV blood test, seek appropriate medical assistance if needed, and obtain support and treatment if necessary. For more information, click title or call (718)720-4370.
~Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - 02/14/2008 | | | | (05/15) FREE HCV TESTING OFFERED TO NYC RESIDENTS AT HEPATITIS C WALK MAY 15 | | LATINO ORGANIZATION FOR LIVER AWARENESS HEPATITIS C WALK WILL TAKE PLACE MAY 15; FREE HCV TESTING OFFERED TO NYC RESIDENTS: The Latino Organization for Liver Awareness (LOLA) is sponsoring its fourth annual New York City Hepatitis C Walk. This event will take place on May 15, 2008, with registration from 9:00– 11:30 a.m. The walk will begin at 12:00 noon at Battery Park and end at City Hall Park. Admission is free. The goal of the walk is to encourage New York City residents to get a free HCV blood test, seek appropriate medical assistance if needed, and obtain support and treatment if necessary. For more information, click title or call (718) 720-4370. For a limited time, LOLA is offering free HCV testing to NYC residents. To schedule an appointment, call (718) 892-8697. | | | | (05/15) HEPATITIS C NETWORK OF WINDSOR, ONTARIO, WILL HOLD ITS ANNUAL | The Hepatitis C Network of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, will hold its annual conference titled "Building Momentum" on May 15. The
conference will feature guest speakers and a vigil to commemorate those who have lost their battle with hepatitis C. For more information, click title. | | | | (05/17) API Wellness Center Presents: BLOOM | | May 17th, 2008 at 5pm - Click for more information. | | | | (05/17) DIGESTIVE DISEASE WEEK TO BE HELD MAY 17-22, IN SAN DIEGO | Digestive Disease Week (DDW) is an educational opportunity for physicians and researchers in the fields of gastroenterology,
hepatology, endoscopy, and gastrointestinal surgery. This year's DDW will be held in San Diego, California, on May 17-22. For registration materials and the preliminary DDW program, click title. | | | | (05/17) Night for Life | | Night for Life is Body Positive's annual black-tie gala featuring silent and live auctions, dinner and live entertainment. The 13th annual event, chaired by Stephanie Heymann and J. David Smith with honorary chairs Lisa and Alfredo J. Molina, will be held on Saturday, May 17, 2008 at the Camelback Inn. Tickets start at $350 and tables of 10 at $3,500. For more information about Night for Life, to make a donation to the auction or to purchase tickets or a table, please contact the Body Positive Development Team at 602-307-5330 or e-mail Tracy Hatch. To purchase tickets online, please choose from the secure PayPal options below. To purchase multiple tickets or a table of 10, simply change the quantity of tickets purchased on the paypal screen. You can also purchase tickets for the $8,000 travel raffle package. | | | | (05/17) Join Cable Positive and volunteer for Project Home at The 2008 Cable Show! | | Join Cable Positive and volunteer for Project Home at The 2008 Cable Show! On Saturday, May 17 and Sunday, May 18, help rebuild one of the nation's hardest hit AIDS organizations, Project Lazarus, and their sister organization, Kent House. Shuttle service will be provided to and from The Morial Convention Center, leaving and arriving in front of Hall D. See below for more details or contact Jennifer D. Medina, Director of Programs, at 212.459.1504 or jennifer@cablepositive.org. | | | | (05/19) WORLD HEPATITIS DAY IS MAY 19 | Help promote the first ever global World Hepatitis Day on May 19! Representatives from around the world have been planning
this campaign for a year under the umbrella of a new group, the World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA). This day will be a historic
event, dedicated to raising awareness of and changing perceptions about the more than 500 million people living with HBV and HCV. Although the campaign details are not being given to the media until May 19, the organizers are inviting hepatitis
organizations to start promoting the campaign and its theme: "Am I Number 12?" This concept was designed not only to communicate the incredible statistic that one in 12 people worldwide has HBV or HCV—which is far higher than the prevalence of HIV or any cancer--but also to encourage people to question themselves and get tested. This inclusive theme is intended to combat the stigma often associated with hepatitis B and C by highlighting the extent of hepatitis viral infection across the world in a memorable way. Teaser materials with the campaign logo have been developed for distribution by hepatitis groups. To view the teaser materials, visit the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable website click title. Please feel free to share this artwork. The high-resolution versions of these materials have been uploaded onto the global campaign FTP site at http://portal.fleishman.com If using the website banner ads, we encourage you to add a hyperlink that links to the global campaign website at http://www.aminumber12.org If your organization would like to be included on the World Hepatitis Day website, please send your organization logos and website URLs to worldhepday@fleishman.com
An inexpensive, but effective way to show that groups all over the world are involved in raising awareness of chronic viral
hepatitis will be to show images of the teasers in recognizable global locations. Global organizers will collate these images
into a variety of formats and distribute them to planners throughout the world. If possible, photograph examples of these
teaser activities and forward them to the global team as soon as you can. Images should include some global cultural reference
(e.g. someone wearing an "Am I Number 12?" tee shirt or carrying "Am I Number 12?" balloons in front of a well-known landmark). Please send your digital images to worldhepday@fleishman.com. Chris Taylor, viral hepatitis program manager, National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors, serves as the WHA North American representative. You can email Chris with questions at ctaylor@NASTAD.org | | | | (05/20) HEPATITIS C PREVENTION: BEYOND THE BASICS | | Tuesday, May 20, 2008 • Course Time: 10:00am-5:00pm Narelle Ellendon, HCV Director, Harm Reduction Coalition Course Fee: $70 | | | | (05/28) HEPATITIS C COINFECTION - 05/28 | | Wednesday, May 28, 2008 • Course Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm Tracy Swan, Hepatitis/HIV Coinfection Project Director, Treatment Action Group Course Fee: $50 | | | June, 2008 | | (06/10) Cable Positive's 7th Annual Positively Outstanding Programming Awards will be held on June 10th | | Cable Positive's 7th Annual Positively Outstanding Programming Awards will be held on June 10th, at the Time Warner Cable Screening Room in Manhattan. Rainbow Media joins Time Warner Cable in presenting this year's event along with exclusive media partner TelevisionWeek. Click title for details. | | | | (06/10) 2008 POP Awards Sponsorship Opportunities Available | Cable Positive's 7th Annual Positively Outstanding Programming Awards will be held on June 10th, at the Time Warner Cable Screening Room in Manhattan. Rainbow Media joins Time Warner Cable in presenting this year's event along with exclusive media partner TelevisionWeek. The POP Awards honor exceptional original HIV/AIDS-related cable television programming. Launched in 2001, distinguished networks awarded for their programming include BET, CNN, Discovery Health Channel, MTV and Showtime.
Sponsorship opportunities are now available! Bronze, Silver and Platinum sponsorship opportunities are available. Each offers recognition in the show journal and on Cable Positive's web site. For more information please contact Dana Levitt @ 212.459.1547 or dana@cablepositive.org.
| | | | (06/10) Cable Positives 7th Annual POP Awards in New York City June 10th | | Cable Positive's Positively Outstanding Programming (POP) Awards honor exceptional HIV/AIDS-related cable television programming. Launched in 2001, networks recognized awarded for their programming include BET, CNN, Discovery Health Channel, MTV and Showtime. Any HIV/AIDS-related program originally produced and aired in the United States between January 1 and December 31, 2007. | | | | (06/18) HEPATITIS C PEER TRAINING - 06/18 | | Wednesday, June 18, 2008 • Course Time: 10:00am-5:00pm Narelle Ellendon, HCV Director, Harm Reduction Coalition Course Fee: $70 | | | | (06/27) HEPATITIS B FOUNDATION'S B INFORMED PATIENT CONFERENCE SCHEDULED | | The 8th Annual B Informed Patient Conference will take place June 27-28. The conference will be held at St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles, in collaboration with the Hepatitis B Information & Support List, the HBV Adoption Support List, and the Asian Pacific Liver Center. Last year almost 200 patients and family members gathered to attend the informative and supportive two-day conference that focused on the care and management of chronic hepatitis B. Through presentations by experts in the field, interactive Q&A sessions, and multiple workshop sessions, participants learned to live more successfully with chronic hepatitis B and gain new friends at the same time. For more information on the program and registration, click title. | | | August, 2008 | | (08/17) 2008 INTERNATIONAL HBV MEETING TO TAKE PLACE AUGUST 17-21 IN SAN DIEGO | The International Meeting of the Molecular Biology of Hepatitis B Viruses will take place August 17-21 in San Diego. The meeting will cover all aspects of the biology of hepatitis B and hepatitis D, including biochemistry, molecular biology, traditional virology, immunology, pathogenesis, and carcinogenesis, as well as the latest developments in antiviral therapies against these two viruses.
The meeting is sponsored by the Hepatitis B Foundation, the Institute for Hepatitis and Virus Research, and the National Institutes of Health. The deadline for general abstract submissions is June 11. For information about the meeting agenda and registration
specifics, click title. | | | November, 2008 | | (11/13) NATIONAL HARM REDUCTION CONFERENCE SET FOR NOVEMBER 13-16, IN MIAMI | | The 7th National Harm Reduction Conference, "Towards a National Policy," will be held November 13-16, in Miami, Florida. For more information and registration materials, click title. Early registration runs through September 1. | | | | (11/13) Harm Reduction Coalition | | Dear Friends: Please come join us in Miami November 13-16 for the Seventh National Harm Reduction Conference: "Harm Reduction: Towards A National Policy." HRC is seeking abstracts by April 30 that not only articulate a national vision for harm reduction, but also exemplify a working model for harm reduction that can be replicated throughout the country by other service providers and community stakeholders who are concerned about the health and human rights of drug users. Our conferences are mostly abstract-driven, and conference participants propose most of the presentations.Very few presentations at our conference are made by invitation. This year, you can also REGISTER ONLINE for the conference! The Seventh National Harm Reduction Conference will have an eye firmly on the national scene. There is no reason why compassion, science and common sense cannot prevail, nor any reason why the United States could not adopt a harm reduction framework to address drug and alcohol problems. Join us in Miami and be part of the direction, planning and brainstorming. See you there. Allan Clear Executive Director. | | |
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