U.S.: interim step towards elimination of HIV travel ban.

On September 29, 2008, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) promulgated new regulations streamlining the travel authorization process for people living with HIV wishing to enter the United States as non-immigrants.

U.S.: PEPFAR reauthorization bills pass House, Senate committee.

On 2 April 2008, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill (H.

U.S.: proposed federal legislation to allow condom distribution and HIV testing in prison.

Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) is reintroducing legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives that would require federal correctional facilities to allow community organizations to distribute condoms and provide voluntary counselling and testing for HIV and STDs for inmates.

The sense of self in anorexia-nervosa patients: a psychoanalytically informed method for studying self-representation.

This paper has two purposes: to study a central psychological feature of anorexia nervosa, the disturbed sense of self, and to demonstrate the utility of an empirical research method to explore a psychoanalytic concept such as self-representation. The aim of the study was to distinguish the sense of self of anorexia-nervosa patients from that of other psychiatric patients, as well as from non-patients. We obtained open-ended self-descriptions, which provide access to self-representations, from 77 young women between the ages of 14 and 24 who made up three groups-anorexia-nervosa patients (n = 15), control psychiatric patients (n = 15), and control non-patients (n = 48).

Cultural affiliation and the importance of health care attributes. Marketers can develop segmentation strategies for targeted patient groups.

Culturally based values are known to influence consumer purchase decisions, but little is known about how those values affect health care choices. To rectify that situation and provide health care marketers with a framework for developing culturally based segmentation strategies, the authors undertook an exploratory research project in which Hispanic-, African-, and Anglo-Americans were asked to rate the importance of 16 different health care attributes. Those attributes can be grouped under five categories: quality of physician, quality of nurses and other medical staff, economic issues, access to health care, and nonmedically related experiential aspects.