Blog Posts by Jonathan Mermin

Linking HIV Treatment and Prevention

Read the full post : Linking HIV Treatment and Prevention 3 Comments HIV Policy & Programs November 29, 2011
Johnathan Mermin

By Jonathan Mermin, MD, MPH, Director, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The programmatic challenges we face today are profoundly different than the ones that plagued us 30 years ago—but the desire for helping ourselves, friends, lovers, family and patients live longer, healthier lives is the same. I remember working in HIV in 1986, at a time when The Boston Globe published letters asking whether people with…

National HIV Testing Day 2010

Read the full post : National HIV Testing Day 2010 1 Comment New Media June 23, 2010
Jonathan Mermin, MD, MPH

By Jonathan Mermin, MD, MPH, Director, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Cross-posted from Health Protection, Perspectives blog)

June 27 is the 17th National HIV Testing Day (NHTD), which is organized annually by the National Association of People with AIDS * (NAPWA), with support from CDC and AIDS.gov. Testing is critical as one in five people with HIV in the United States (or 200,000 people) don’t know they have HIV. The NHTD theme,…