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Bailey-Boushay House was the first inpatient hospice facility for AIDS patients in the United States. [1] It was founded by Betsy Lieberman and Christine Hurley of AIDS Housing of Washington with support from sources including Virginia Mason Medical Center, Boeing, Nordstrom, Weyerhaeuser, the Northwest AIDS Foundation, and an anonymous donation of $100,000 via the Archdiocese of Seattle. [2]
First openly gay and openly HIV-positive member of the New York State Senate [65] Adam Ebbin (born 1963) Democratic Virginia: Virginia Senate (2012–present) Virginia House of Delegates (2004-2012) First LGBT member of Virginia House and Senate [66] [67] George Eighmey (born 1941) Democratic Oregon: Oregon House of Representatives (1993-1999)
In March 2021, the Virginia General Assembly passed a bill (SB1138) to decriminalize and modernize HIV laws. The bill (SB1138) was signed into law by the Governor of Virginia Ralph Northam on March 31, 2021. [65] This would make Virginia the first southern US state to legally do this. [66] [67] [68]
A Virginia man became the third HIV-positive person in the U.S. to donate his heart, and the first for the hospital where the surgery was performed.
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Demetre C. Daskalakis (born 1972/1973) [1] is an American physician and gay health activist serving as director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), and former director of the Division of HIV Prevention in the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention.
France established buprenorphine’s effectiveness years ago. Between 1995 and 1999, the country reduced overdose deaths by 79 percent as buprenorphine use in treatment became widely accepted. The medication, along with methadone treatment and needle exchange initiatives, also helped cut in half the HIV rate among intravenous drug users.
Virginia counties and cities by year of establishment. The Commonwealth of Virginia is divided into 95 counties, along with 38 independent cities that are considered county-equivalents for census purposes, totaling 133 second-level subdivisions. In Virginia, cities are co-equal levels of government to counties, but towns are part of counties.