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...Beyond those concerns, Meyer, who says he learned of the plan just hours before it was announced, seems stung by the Department of Health's parachuting into his trench. "This was presented to us fait accompli," he says. "It was a slap in the face." He also suspects Bronx residents will bristle at the selection of their borough as the first mass-testing site. "There's still a tremendous amount of distrust in minority communities about people from outside coming in and saying, 'This is what's best for you,'" he says. Still, some 50 community-based organizations...
...Having spent years educating the public about the disease, some HIV specialists don't trust general medical professionals to handle patients with respect and dignity. "The quality of medical services in the Bronx leaves a lot to be desired to begin with," says CitiWide executive director Ric Meyer. "To be talking about accelerating people through this raises a whole lot more questions than it answers...
...rooms; studies have shown reducing consent barriers can dramatically increase testing rates. "We can remove a hurdle that doesn't really serve a purpose anymore," says Dr. Donna Futterman, an AIDS specialist at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and one of the initiative's architects. But CitiWide's Meyer and others say those barriers are there for a reason: they ensure that counseling, testing and treatment are comprehensive and humane. "I'm absolutely on board with testing," he says. "But I have real questions about how this is going to work." Adds Carolina Lopez, executive director of New York...
During his 22-month tenure, El-Erian was tasked with bringing stability to an organization rocked by the 2005 departure of its long-time CEO Jack R. Meyer, who left with a large fraction of HMC's staff amid heated criticism over multimillion dollar compensation packages for him and his top money managers. Meyer and several of his former lieutenants now run the Boston-based hedge fund Convexity Capital Management...
...even agree on which year to employ as a baseline for emission reductions: 1990, which was used for the Kyoto Protocol, or a more recent year. No one is speaking the same language. "You have a clear split between the European and the non-European G8 nations," says Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists. "That makes it unlikely we'll get any specific agreement for 2020, which makes it unlikely developing nations will agree to specific targets...