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WASHINGTON -- Howard University College of Medicine’s National Minority AIDS Education and Training Center (NMAETC), with the help of Congresswomen Maxine Waters and Donna Christensen, has introduced legislation in the House of Representatives recognizing the establishment of National Clinicians HIV Testing Day.
NMAETC established the day to heighten attention within the medical community regarding HIV testing as part of its anti-AIDS effort.
The resolution was introduced Waters, D-Calif., in July with 26 co-sponsors. The day is to remind physicians, physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists and other medical professionals to promote early testing for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, so that people can be spared the deadly disease. Read More
Photo Caption: (L-R) Dr. Duane Smooth, professor of medicine, Howard University College of Medicine; Brian Hujdich, director of CAEAR Foundation; Dr. Pierre Vigilance, director of the District of Columbia Department of Health; Goulda Downer, PhD, principle investigator for the National Minority AIDS Education and Training Center; Tom Kujawski, vice president of the National Association of People with AIDS; Dr. Shannon Hader, senior deputy director of the HIV/AIDS Administration for the District's Department of Health and Kathleen Sengstock, senior health policy advisor for California Congresswoman Maxine Waters, in July announced National Clinicians HIV/AIDS Testing Day on the law of the Capitol.
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