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Zach Carter

Obama Administration Softens 'Shameful' Fight Against Cheap Drugs For Poor Countries

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Ip, Pepfar, United Nations, Generic Drugs, Mitch Daniels, Hiv, Who, Obama, Barack Obama, Developing Nations, Doctors Without Borders, World Health Assembly, Video, Intellectual Property, World Health Organization, AIDS/HIV, U.N., World Intellectual Property Organization, Generics, Prescription Drugs, Aids, Wipo, Un, Patents. Trade Deals, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A change of heart from the Obama administration may pave the way to a groundbreaking global deal to provide lifesaving medications to de...

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Zach Carter

Obama Administration Says 'No' To Global Health Fund For Developing Nations

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Tpp, Poverty, Economy, Drug Companies, Tb, Hiv, Free Trade, Jobs, Obama, Bernie Sanders, Who, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Tuberculosis, Pharma, World Health Assembly, Pharmaceutical Companies, Politics, Doctors Without Borders, Video, Wha, World Health Organization, Geneva, Phrma, Trade, Aids, Msf, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has alarmed global health experts by opposing a new international fund that would fight disease in the developi...

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Twenty Years Later and Still Fighting Invisibility

Kathy Lim Ko | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS Prevention, Aids, HIV/AIDS, Hiv, Minority Health, Aids Research, Impact News
Kathy Lim Ko

Regardless of our racial/ethnic group or HIV status, we should all join Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities around the nation in observing National Asian and Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.

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Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson

What You May Not Know About The Fight Against AIDS

HuffingtonPost.com | Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: AIDS Black America, HIV Cure, Bv-Life, AIDs Epidemic, HIV/AIDS Prevention, Hiv, AIDS Walk New York, Poll, AIDS Walk, AIDS Prevention, Wendy Williams, Aids Crisis, HIV/AIDS, Keri Hilson, HIV Prevention, Aids, Black Voices News

It's been a big month in the fight against HIV and AIDS. On May 10, a panel of federal advisers gave a thumbs up to the first drug shown to prevent HI...

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Zach Carter

An Idea To Fix Killer Costs Of Lifesaving Drugs

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Tpp, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Darrell Issa, Hiv, Free Trade, Stiglitz, Obama, Bernie Sanders, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Barack Obama, Issa, Doctors Without Borders, Video, Ustr, Trade, Prescription Drugs, Health Care Reform, Aids, Health Care, Drug Prices, Medicine, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is promoting a new plan to encourage the development of better, cheaper prescription drugs: an innovation fu...

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Sen. Sanders' Common Sense on HIV Drugs Would Save Money and Lives

John-Manuel Andriote | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Bernie Sanders, HIV Drugs, Hiv, Joseph Stiglitz, Aids, AIDS Drugs, Politics News
John-Manuel Andriote

The prohibitive cost of medication has forced thousands of HIV-positive Americans who need treatment to wait, or be turned down altogether -- despite the fact that we know antiretroviral therapy saves lives.

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The "Best Hope" for AIDS Vaccine Advocacy

Mitchell Warren | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Hiv, Prep, Research and Development, Science, Male Circumcision, Vaccine, Aids, HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, Antiretroviral Drugs, Impact News
Mitchell Warren

If the world acts with strategy and speed to implement the proven and emerging options, the epidemic should be on a measurable downward trajectory over the next five to ten years. Why, then, do we still need an AIDS vaccine? Because we want to end the epidemic.

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PEPFAR Is Worth It: Ezekiel Emanuel Is Wrong on AIDS Funding

Anand Reddi | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Pepfar, Journal of the American Medical Association, Global Health, Aids Research, HIV Prevention, Aids, Hiv, HIV/AIDS Prevention, HIV/AIDS Africa, World News
Anand Reddi

The idea that differing global health initiatives must compete with each other lacks not only ethical legitimacy but also scientific merit.

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Giving Mothers a Very Special Gift

Ambassador Eric Goosby, MD | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Unaids, Pepfar, Mothers2mothers, Aids, Global Plan, Mothers Day Every Day, Global Health, Antiretroviral Treatment, HIV Cure, Maternal Health Africa, Hiv Infections, Public Health, Hiv, Global Maternal Health, Health Systems, Global Motherhood, Maternal Health, Mothers Day, White Ribbon Alliance, Mothers, HIV Prevention, Maternal and Child Health, Health Care, Blc, Rwanda, Antiretroviral Drugs, Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission, Born Hiv-Free, One, Pediatrics, Children's Health, Impact News
Ambassador Eric Goosby, MD

What is the greatest gift we can give a mother this Mother's Day? There are many answers, but one is a healthy life for her and her child. This Mother's Day, let's sharpen our resolve to ensure mothers everywhere have children who are born HIV-free.

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World Leaders Must Keep Commitment to Fighting HIV Or Risk Losing Hard-Won Gains

Bob Carter, M.D. | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Health Africa, G8 Summit, AIDS Awareness, Hiv, G8, HIV/AIDS Africa, HIV/AIDS, Global Health, Dear G8, Aids, Antiretroviral Drugs, Impact News
Bob Carter, M.D.

As a doctor practicing in Africa, I have seen the AIDS pandemic unfold. I have witnessed the spread of HIV slow down as progress has been made in identifying effective prevention strategies.

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A Thank You to Mothers for Fighting for an HIV-Free Generation

Chip Lyons | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Aids, Women's Health, Hiv, Global Motherhood, Maternal Health, AIDS in Africa, Pediatric HIV/AIDS, Impact News
Chip Lyons

Mothers are not just our clients and our patients. They are full partners in our efforts to end pediatric AIDS -- particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 90 percent of new pediatric infections occur.

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A Potential Game Changer In The Fight Against HIV/AIDS

Sean Cahill | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, HIV/AIDS, Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate, Hiv, Tenofovir-Emtricitabine, Prep, Aids, Ftc-Tdf, Gay Voices News
Sean Cahill

Imagine what it would mean to have a medication that would make it harder for HIV to enter a person's body. Tomorrow, May 10, may lead to just such a turning point in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

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Taking Stock and Saving Lives: How an m-Health Initiative Is Revolutionizing Health Care in Uganda

Stephanie Rudat | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Uganda, Medical Records, Mhealth, Mobile Phones, Public Health, Nonprofits, Hiv, HIV/AIDS, Africa, Prescription Drugs, Computer Science, HIV/AIDS Africa, Technology, Healthcare, Global Health, Impact News
Stephanie Rudat

Until recently, most health clinics in Uganda, and indeed across the continent of Africa, transmitted all of their data manually. The journey of a paper record from doctor's pad to the Ministry of Health in Kampala was treacherous at best.

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Dave Jamieson

Burger King Worker Claims He Was Fired Due To HIV

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Maldef, Americans With Disabilities Act, Workplace Discrimination, Burger King, Hiv, HIV Discrimination, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Burger King Lawsuit, Latino Voices News

A former manager of several Burger King restaurants in Virginia has accused the fast-food company of firing him because he's HIV-positive, according t...

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Giving Power to Couples to End the AIDS Epidemic

Michel Sidibé | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Unaids, Antiretroviral Treatment, Michel Sidibé, Hiv, Antiretroviral Therapy, Condoms, Aids, Couples, HIV/AIDS, HIV Test, Discordant Couples, HIV and AIDS, Hiv Aids, AIDs Epidemic, Public Health, Healthy Living News
Michel Sidibé

For the AIDS response, couples' testing and counselling should be one more turning point to expand options to strengthen the impact of HIV prevention and treatment.

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High Stakes For Those With HIV As Supreme Court Considers Health Care Law

AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Aids, United States Supreme Court, Health Care Reform, Hiv, Health Care Hiv/Aids, Health Care Supreme Court, Video, Politics News

NEW YORK — For many HIV-positive Americans, and those who advocate on their behalf, these are days of anxious waiting as the Supreme Court ponde...

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The LGBT Community Should Condemn Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Law, S.B. 1070

Iván Espinoza-Madrigal | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Lgbt, Undocumented Immigrants, Gay Rights, Arizona Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, LGBT Rights, Hiv, Immigration, Arizona, Sb 1070, Arizona Immigration Law, Binational Gay Couples, Binational Same-Sex Couples, Gay Voices News
Iván Espinoza-Madrigal

There is an indissoluble link between immigrants affected by S.B. 1070 and the fight for LGBT equality, because the LGBT community encompasses not only binational same-sex couples and LGBT asylum-seekers but undocumented LGBT immigrants.

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Wonky Policies And The Chocolate Factory: The Milton Hershey School Is Wrong On HIV

James Peron | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Milton Hershey School, Hiv, HIV/AIDS, Milton Hershey School HIV-Positive Applicant, Milton Hershey School HIV-Positive Boy, Milton Hershey School HIV, Gay Voices News
James Peron

Recently, the Milton Hershey School refused admission to a student who appeared qualified in all ways. They chose to refuse him solely because he is HIV-positive. They said he poses a threat to all other students.

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'Engineered' Cells Hunt, Kill AIDS Virus In Provocative New Study

The Huffington Post | Melissa Cronin, David Freeman | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Video, Ucla, Stem Cells, Aids, AIDS Virus, Hiv, T Cells, Genetic Engineering, Science News

Can stem cells cure AIDS? Not yet. But a provocative new study shows that human stem cells can be genetically engineered to attack living cells infect...

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Basic Research: The Fountain About to Run Dry

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D. | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia, Hiv, Science Funding, Basic Research, Cancer, National Institutes of Health, Retroviruses, Oncogenes, Alzheimer's Dementia, Alzheimer's Prevention, Alzheimer's Research, Science News
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.

Biology is an intrinsically artisan discipline: it looks like a crazy quilt of intricately interwoven threads (take a look at the diagram of any biological pathway and you get the picture, let alone how things translate across scales).

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Mount (Larry) Kramer Rumbles: ACT UP Achieved Heroic Feats, But They Weren't The Only AIDS Heroes

John-Manuel Andriote | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Larry Kramer, Hiv, ACT UP, Aids, HIV/AIDS, HIV Activists, AIDS Activists, AIDS Activism, HIV Activism, ACT UP Larry Kramer, Larry Kramer ACT UP, Gay Voices News
John-Manuel Andriote

In more than 25 years of reporting on AIDS, I have been honored to know many heroes of the AIDS epidemic. Not all of them have been as visible or vocal as Kramer and ACT UP, but the contributions they made, the prices they paid, the risks they took were just as real.

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Trapped in a Broken System

Gregory Trotter | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Affordable Care Act, Hiv, Healthcare Reform, AIDS Drug Assistance Program, Ryan White Act, Preexisting Conditions, Ryan White, Preexisting-Conditions, Insurance-Companies-Preexisting-Conditions, Aca, ACA AIDS, Chicago News
Gregory Trotter

For the 1.2 million Americans living with HIV, the Affordable Care Act will be utterly life-changing. For some, it will be life-saving.

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Busboy At The Ivy Says He Was Fired Because He's HIV Positive

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Latinos, Gay LA, Workplace Discrimination, Hiv, HIV Lawsuit, Latino HIV, Gay, Busboy HIV, Gay Latinos, HIV/AIDS, Maldef, Video, Gay Rights, Feha, Reymundo Martinez, The Ivy, Latino LA, The Ivy HIV, Latino Rights, HIV Discrimination, Los Angeles News

38-year-old Reymundo Martinez became HIV positive a few months after he started working as a busboy for The Ivy, a Beverly Hills-adjacent restaurant p...

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Preventing Mother-To-Child Transmission Of HIV

Robin Smalley | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Mothers2mothers, Hiv, Global Motherhood, Impact News
Robin Smalley

One of the most valuable lessons we at mothers2mothers have learned is that regardless of how entrepreneurial anyone is, no one can succeed in making an impact without enormous support and very good friends. It takes a family.

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A Mother's Heartbreaking Story About Pediatric AIDS

Suzan Stirling | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Spring Into Action, Mom With HIV, HIV/AIDS, Family HIV Story, Family With AIDS, Hiv, Pediatric Aids, Children With Hiv, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Aids, Mother HIV Transmission, Global Motherhood, Pediatric Aids Prevention, Mother Child HIV, Impact News
Suzan Stirling

I'll never forget the phone call that saved my children's lives. It was a new doctor. She was quick to the point. She said, "Something in your son's blood work warrants an AIDS test. I suggest your whole family be tested."

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