Aids Infections

New HIV Infections Drop Since 2001, UN Says

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 08.03.2011

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UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations AIDS agency on Friday urged increased funding for early treatment of people with HIV following a new interna...

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Zimbabwe HIV Rate Declines As Men Can't Afford To Be Sugar Daddies

AP | MICHELLE FAUL | Posted 05.25.2011

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Fewer Zimbabweans are getting infected with AIDS, and researchers speculate it's due in part to a battered economy tha...

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Jersey City's Needle Exchange Program Takes Flight 'On a Wing and a Prayer'

The Jersey City Independent | The Jersey City Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

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On July 1, public health activists breathed a sigh of relief as Hyacinth AIDS Foundation launched Jersey City’s first-ever syringe access progr...

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Black Women and the AIDS Crisis

Martha St Jean | Posted 05.25.2011

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Martha St Jean

According to Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS at the CDC, one in 30 black women will be diagnosed with HIV at some point in her lifetime. That is unacceptable.

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Let's Talk About Jobs, Baby

Johnathon Briggs | Posted 05.25.2011

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Johnathon Briggs

Congress should approve the $400 million in prevention funding so that we can stop talking about sex and start improving the health of all Americans-- not just the ones we morally agree with.

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Obama: The Real Pro-Life Candidate

Cristina Page | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cristina Page

McCain and the "pro-lifers" may have sanctimony on their side, but that has proven ineffective at preventing abortion. Obama has the opportunity to go on the offensive and change the debate.

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UN Study Shows Global AIDS Infections Stabilizing...

BBC News | Posted 11.17.2011

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The rate at which people are infected with HIV may have peaked in the late 1990s, according to a UNAids report. It found the incidence of new HIV inf...

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