Strengthening partnerships between Black Churches and HIV service providers in the United States

AIDS Care ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (9) ◽  
pp. 1119-1123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher O. Obong'o ◽  
Latrice C. Pichon ◽  
Terrinieka W. Powell ◽  
Andrea L. Williams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Churches ◽  
Hiv Service Providers

scholarly journals Perlindungan Konsumen atas Metode Penawaran Negative Option di Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Anastasia ◽  
Dwi Sekar Ningrum ◽  
William Marthianus ◽  
Willis Patrick Onggo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Telecommunications Services ◽  
Financial Losses

Negative Option Method is a bidding method that requires confirmation from consumers in accepting or rejecting an offer. If the customer doesn’t provide confirmation, the business actor assumes that the consumer agrees and will be charged a fee for the offer given. The Negative Option method originating from the United States has actually developed in Indonesia, especially in the provision of telecommunications services. It is not uncommon for Telecommunications Service Providers in Indonesia to offer a particular feature that requires confirmation of rejection or cancellation from consumers via message, such as "unreg". If the consumer does not provide confirmation, the business actor will unilaterally assume that the Customer has accepted the offer, thus often resulting in the consumer experiencing financial losses due to the imposition of costs for goods and / or services without the consent of the consumer. This encourages the author to conduct legal research on consumer legal protection of the Negative Option bidding method using the normative juridical method. This legal research concludes that the Negative Option bidding method is contrary to the Minister of Communications Regulation Article 2 paragraph (3) and Article 4 paragraph (1) letter a which specifies that each Telecommunications Service Provider must obtain written and/or message approval from the Customer to activate a paid feature. If the Telecommunications Service Provider has not received approval from the Customer, then the paid feature must be stopped.

scholarly journals Revised guidelines for HIV testing, counselling, and screening in the United States

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. A. Fenton ◽  
C McGarrigle
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Hiv Treatment ◽  
Hiv Screening ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
Perinatally Acquired ◽  
Clinical Advances

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the United States has published a report containing revised guidelines for HIV counselling, testing, and referral (CTR), and revised recommendations for HIV screening of pregnant women (1). The CTR guidelines replace the existing 1994 guidelines (2) and contain recommendations for policy-makers and service providers of HIV CTR. The revised recommendations for HIV screening for pregnant women replace the 1995 guidelines (3). The revision was prompted by recent advances in both HIV CTR and HIV treatment and prevention and clinical advances in preventing perinatally acquired HIV.

Psychological, Social and Technical Factors Influencing Electronic Medical Records Systems Adoption by U.S. Physicians: A Systematic Model

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raghid El-Yafouri ◽  
Leslie Klieb ◽  
Valérie Sabatier
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Electronic Medical Records ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
The United States ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Intention To Adopt

Abstract Background: Wide adoption of electronic medical records (EMR) systems in the United States can lead to better quality medical care at a lower cost. Despite the laws and financial subsidies by the U.S. government for service providers and suppliers, the adoption has been slow. Understanding the EMR adoption drivers for physicians and the role of policymaking can translate into increased adoption rate and enhanced information sharing between medical care providers. Methods: Physicians across the United States were surveyed to gather primary data on their psychological, social, and technical perceptions toward EMR systems. This quantitative study builds on the Theory of Planned Behavior, the Technology Acceptance Model, and the Diffusion of Innovation theory to propose, test, and validate an innovation adoption model for the health care industry. 382 responses were collected and data were analyzed via linear regression to uncover the effects of 12 variables on the intention to adopt EMR systems.Results: Regression model testing uncovers that government policymaking or mandates and other social factors have little or negligible effect on physicians’ intention to adopt an innovation. Rather, physicians are directly driven by their attitudes and ability to control, and indirectly motivated by their knowledge of the innovation, the financial ability to acquire the system, the holistic benefits to their industry, and the relative advancement of the system compared to others.Conclusions: A unidirectional mandate from the government is not sufficient for physicians to adopt an innovation. Government, health care associations, and EMR system vendors can benefit from our findings by working toward increasing the physicians’ knowledge of the proposed innovation, socializing how medical care providers and the overall industry can benefit from EMR system adoption, and solving for the financial burden of system implementation and sustainment.

scholarly journals “In Africa, There Was No Family Planning. Every Year You Just Give Birth”: Family Planning Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Among Somali and Congolese Refugee Women After Resettlement to the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela A. Royer ◽  
Lenora M. Olson ◽  
Brandi Jackson ◽  
Lana S. Weber ◽  
Lori Gawron ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Relativism ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Refugee Women ◽  
The Family ◽  
Knowledge Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Planning Knowledge

It is crucial for refugee service providers to understand the family planning knowledge, attitudes, and practices of refugee women following third country resettlement. Using an ethnographic approach rooted in Reproductive Justice, we conducted six focus groups that included 66 resettled Somali and Congolese women in a western United States (US) metropolitan area. We analyzed data using modified grounded theory. Three themes emerged within the family planning domain: (a) concepts of family, (b) fertility management, and (c) unintended pregnancy. We contextualized these themes within existing frameworks for refugee cultural transition under the analytic paradigms of “pronatalism and stable versus evolving family structure” and “active versus passive engagement with family planning.” Provision of just and equitable family planning care to resettled refugee women requires understanding cultural relativism, social determinants of health, and how lived experiences influence family planning conceptualization. We suggest a counseling approach and provider practice recommendations based on our study findings.

Family Business Centers: An Interview with Paul I. Karofsky

1994 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie Mills
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
University Center ◽  
New Family ◽  
The Family

Across the United States, more than forty family business centers have been founded. Today, new family business centers are being established every year through the concerted efforts of educators and service providers in the family business arena. This interview is an attempt to provide a cross-sectional view of the establishment and operations of a family business center. The Northeastern University Center for Family Business is directed by Paul I. Karofsky and was founded in 1991.

scholarly journals Pushing Back on Stricter Copyright ISP Liability Rules

2021 ◽  
pp. 299
Author(s):  
Pamela Samuelson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Safe Harbor ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Internet Service ◽  
Liability Rules ◽  
Stakeholder Interests ◽  
Wide Range

For more than two decades, internet service providers (ISPs) in the United States, the European Union (EU), and many other countries have been shielded from copyright liability under “safe harbor” rules. These rules apply to ISPs who did not know about or participate in user-uploaded infringements and who take infringing content down after receiving notice from rights holders. Major copyright industry groups were never satisfied with these safe harbors, and their dissatisfaction has become more strident over time as online infringements have grown to scale. Responding to copyright industry complaints, the EU in 2019 adopted its Directive on Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market. In particular, the Directive’s Article 17 places much stricter obligations on for-profit ISPs that host large amounts of user contents. Article 17 is internally contradictory, deeply ambiguous, and harmful to small and medium-sized companies as well as to user freedoms of expression. Moreover, Article 17 may well violate the European Charter of Fundamental Rights. In the United States, Congress commenced a series of hearings in 2020 on the safe harbor rules now codified as 17 U.S.C. § 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). In May 2020, the U.S. Copyright Office issued its long-awaited study on Section 512, which recommended several significant changes to existing safe harbor rules. The Study’s almost exclusively pro–copyright industry stances on reform of virtually every aspect of the rules notably shortchanges other stakeholder interests. Congress should take a balanced approach in considering any changes to the DMCA safe harbor rules. Any meaningful reform of ISP liability rules should consider the interests of a wide range of stakeholders. This includes U.S.-based Internet platforms, smaller and medium-sized ISPs, startups, and the hundreds of millions of Internet users who create and enjoy user-generated content (UGC) uploaded to these platforms, as well as the interests of major copyright industries and individual creators who have been dissatisfied with the DMCA safe harbor rules.

scholarly journals ‘Scrambling to figure out what to do’: a mixed method analysis of COVID-19’s impact on sexual and reproductive health and rights in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. bmjsrh-2021-201081
Author(s):  
Malia Maier ◽  
Goleen Samari ◽  
Jennifer Ostrowski ◽  
Clarisa Bencomo ◽  
Terry McGovern
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Service Utilisation ◽  
Preparedness Planning

ObjectiveA weak and politicised COVID-19 pandemic response in the United States (US) that failed to prioritise sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) overlaid longstanding SRHR inequities. In this study we investigated how COVID-19 affected SRHR service provision in the US during the first 6 months of the pandemic.MethodsWe used a multiphase, three-part, mixed method approach incorporating: (1) a comprehensive review of state-by-state emergency response policies that mapped state-level actions to protect or suspend SRHR services including abortion, (2) a survey of SRHR service providers (n=40) in a sample of 10 states that either protected or suspended services and (3) in-depth interviews (n=15) with SRHR service providers and advocacy organisations.ResultsTwenty-one states designated some or all SRHR services as essential and therefore exempt from emergency restrictions. Protections, however, varied by state and were not always comprehensive. Fourteen states acted to suspend abortion. Five cross-cutting themes surrounding COVID-19’s impact on SRHR services emerged across the survey and interviews: reductions in SRHR service provision; shifts in service utilisation; infrastructural impacts; the critical role of state and local governments; and exacerbation of SRHR inequities for certain groups.ConclusionsThis study demonstrates serious disruptions to the provision of SRHR care that exacerbated existing SRHR inequities. The presence or absence of policy protections for SRHR services had critical implications for providers and patients. Policymakers and service providers must prioritise and integrate SRHR into emergency preparedness planning and implementation, with earmarked funding and tailored service delivery for historically oppressed groups.

Secondary Copyright Infringement Liability and User-Generated Content in the United States

2020 ◽  
pp. 348-368
Author(s):  
Jack Lerner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Copyright Infringement ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Legislative Proposals ◽  
Red Flag ◽  
Online Service Providers

In the United States, the question of whether and when online service providers can be held liable for copyright infringement committed by their users has been one of the most heavily litigated controversies of the digital age. This chapter answers these questions by reviewing the common law doctrine of secondary copyright infringement and all relevant case law behind it. It focuses on the interpretation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA’s) safe harbours before US courts, with special emphasis on the notion of actual and ‘red flag’ knowledge, wilful blindness, right and ability to control users’ behaviour, and inducement. This chapter focuses in particular on user-generated content (UGC) platforms by looking into the effects of the DMCA on the UGC market and the technological measures implemented to curb infringement on UGC platforms. The chapter also provides a review of legislative proposals to amend the legal framework that the DMCA implemented more than two decades ago and runs a comparative analysis with other similar international legislative frameworks.

Applying Applied Anthropology: A Project with Applied Anthropologists, Congolese Refugees, and Refugee Service Providers in West Central Florida

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-19
Author(s):  
Emily A. Holbrook ◽  
Roberta Baer ◽  
Dillon Mahoney ◽  
Renice Obure ◽  
Florence Ackey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Bullying ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Central Florida ◽  
Dietary Study

Abstract A team of applied anthropologists (EH, RDB, DM, RO) and refugee service providers (FA and others) worked in collaboration to research dietary change and nutritional status among recently resettled Congolese refugees and to apply the preliminary findings of that research. The Congolese also requested help from the anthropologists with issues of sexual harassment among the adults, school bullying, and issues related to changing gender roles in the United States. We discuss the relationships between the refugees, the applied anthropologists, and the refugee service providers, and how we worked together to address the issues, which were revealed by the dietary study.

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