About this video: "Wellness"
Video courtesy of The Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health
Speaking at the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health at Brooklyn's SUNY Health Science Center, he details the importance on focusing on health issues in the inner city.
Opening with Arthur Ashe's words about the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, the video discusses the institute's endeavors to educate lower income minorities about health issues and to create a model for reaching these populations across the country. It also mentions some of the accomplishments of the center in regards to documenting connections between cervical cancer and HIV/AIDS and treating mental as well as health issues amongst chronically ill children. It closes with Arthur Ashe stressing the importance of prevention education in these underserved urban communities.
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“I was bent on telling the story of AIDS so that as many people as possible would be aware of its dangers, its myths and realities.” — Arthur Ashe
Current Events
FDA Approves New HIV/AIDS Treatment
This week the FDA announced that it had approved Isentress, a new AIDS medication developed my Merck. The medication is not just a new drug but the first of a new class of treatments called integrase inhibitors. It is expected to be especially useful for people whose HIV is resistant to extent medications.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/
newsdesk/N12213311.htm
The New Cardiothoracic Surgery Website at Weill Cornell
http://cornellheartsurgery.org/
WellPoint Foundation Awards $332,100 Grant on Behalf of Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield to the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health
http://www.arthurasheinstitute.org/
news.html
Wellness Related Arthur Ashe Legacy Resources
Arthur Ashe Chair for Research in Pediatric AIDS
Memphis, TN
http://www.stjude.org/
The Arthur Ashe Chair for Research in Pediatric AIDS is a position at St. Jude's Children's Hospital for Research. The chair helps to supply funds and laboratory supplements for a doctor researching AIDS in infants and children.
Arthur Ashe Endowment for the Defeat of AIDS
New York City, NY
http://www.med.cornell.edu/
The Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS was founded by Arthur Ashe to raise money for research into treating, curing and preventing AIDS, the end goal being the eradication of the disease. In 1995, the remaining foundation funds were matched by Weill Cornell Medical College to establish the Endowment at the Medical College. The Endowment provides the financial support to run the International Healthcare Worker HIV Training Program, the Arthur Ashe Professorship of Medicine, and the Arthur Ashe Endowment Lecture, as well as for clinical trials for patients receiving HIV/AIDS treatment and other programs.
The Arthur Ashe Endowment International Healthcare Worker Training Program
New York City, NY
http://www.med.cornell.edu/
Each year the Training Program enables eight healthcare workers to come to New York for four weeks to receive specialized HIV/AIDS care training at the Weill Cornell Medical College. To qualify, the health practitioners must work in AIDS treatment and come from developing nations with substantial AIDS populations. During their time at Weill-Cornell, they learn about treatments and alternative practices for treating the disease that are not available in their home countries. Since its inception, more than 80 healthcare workers have received training through the program.
The Arthur Ashe Endowment Lecture
New York City, NY
http://www.med.cornell.edu/
This lecture series features world-renowned individuals who are involved in the fight against AIDS. They are invited to speak in New York at the Weill Cornell Medical College to the faculty, medical students and residents in training. The Ashe Lecture was established in 1996.
The Arthur Ashe Professor of Medicine
New York City, NY
http://www.med.cornell.edu/
This professorship is one of the newer Endowment programs, having been established in 2006 at the Weill Cornell Medical College. The Arthur Ashe Professor, a distinguished professor on the Department of Medicine's faculty at Weill-Cornell, works in medical research and care and directs the Arthur Ashe Endowment's programs at the Medical College.
Arthur Ashe Institute of Urban Health
Brooklyn, NY
http://www.arthurasheinstitute.org/
The Arthur Ashe Institute of Urban Health was founded to improve the health of multiethnic communities in urban areas. These populations often display higher morbidity and mortality rates. It provides a resource for health knowledge and information about health care for individuals while collaborating with health institutions and major corporations to increase health care access.
Arthur Ashe Program in AIDS Care/Harvard AIDS Institute
New York City, NY
http://www.aids.harvard.edu/
programs/ashe.html
Running from 1998 until 2001, the Arthur Ashe Program in AIDS Care was developed to bolster the levels of physicians involved in AIDS care, particularly minority doctors, and also to provide a communications network for discussion and dissemination of new information about AIDS care.
Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.saonet.ucla.edu/health.htm
This University of California Los Angeles student healthcare center was established at Arthur's alma mater to provide health services to UCLA undergraduate and graduate students at little or no cost.
Wellness Related Resources
Medline Plus
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
healthtopics.html
National Institute of Health
http://www.nih.gov/
AIDS Info
http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/
NIH AIDS page
AIDS.ORG
http://www.aids.org/
Weill Cornell Medical College
http://www.med.cornell.edu/
Wellness.com
http://www.wellness.com/
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