June 8 is Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

The annual Caribbean-American Health/AIDS Awareness Day was created to provide Caribbean-Americans with resources, HIV/AIDS health education, evaluation, and opportunities for involvement. The goal is to beat the odds and to ensure that we cultivate a health conscious atmosphere within our communities.

This day is a part of a National effort to get Caribbean-Americans to get educated, get evaluated, get treated and get involved with their health decisions, as HIV/AIDS, Diabetes, Cancer, High Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular diseases continues to negatively affect the Caribbean communities resulting in premature deaths.

LifeScience Moment: President Clinton directed Medicare program to reimburse providers for cost of routine patient care in clinical trials

On June 7, 2000, President Clinton issued an Executive Memorandum that directed the Medicare program to revise its payment policy and immediately begin to explicitly reimburse providers for the cost of routine patient care associated with participation in clinical trials, and to take additional action to promote the participation of Medicare beneficiaries in clinical trials for all diseases.

This action followed an Institute of Medicine report that recommended policy changes to encourage greater use of clinical trials by older Americans.

It's a Small World
	Flea (Yersinia Pestis Bacterium Carrier) (Photo: Courtesy Janice Haney Carr)

Science Quote

"The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth. The Living of These Days."