Aids Epidemic

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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Make Every Day Mother's Day

Michel Sidibé | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Michel Sidibé, Antiretroviral Treatment, Antiretroviral Therapy, Unaids, Public Health, Aids, AIDs Epidemic, Mother's Day 2012, Mother's Day Cards, Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission, Video, Global Motherhood, Maternal Health, Impact News
Michel Sidibé

There are three simple things we can all do to ensure babies everywhere can be born free from HIV. Together we can go from 390,000 children becoming infected with HIV each year to zero.

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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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A Mother's Day Tribute For Women In Need

Twesigye Jackson Kaguri | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Corporate Philanthropy, Women, Impact-News, AIDs Epidemic, Africa, Bblog-Globalmotherhood, Microfinance, Aids Crisis, Global Motherhood, Mother's Day, Religion News
Twesigye Jackson Kaguri

Happy Mother's Day to every mother on this planet. We acknowledge your sacrifice, your hardships and your undying love. We only hope that we can give back a fraction of what you have given to us.

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Addressing Disparities, Promoting Health Equity and Ending HIV/AIDS

Jeffrey Levi | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Public Health, HIV/AIDS, Health Disparities, The Waters Bill, HIV and AIDS, Hiv Screening, Serostatus, Maxine Waters, Minority Health Care Inequality, AIDs Epidemic, National Hiv/Aids Strategy, Health Care Equality, Health Care, Health Care Costs, Healthy Living News
Jeffrey Levi

We've come a long way in the battle against HIV/AIDS. However, we must remain vigilant: We cannot ignore the startling statistics of new HIV infections of gay and bisexual men, especially among black and Hispanic men.

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Keith Haring Work Gets VIP Sale

AP | Posted 03.30.2012

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NEW YORK -- Sotheby's is holding an exhibition in New York of 32 artworks by the late pop artist Keith Haring. Most of the art is available for privat...

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How The Internet Has Truly Changed Activisim

Kate Otto | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Aids, HIV/AIDS, Act-Up-25-Years, How to Survive a Plague, AIDS Activism, Millenials, ACT UP, AIDs Epidemic, Video, Impact News
Kate Otto

There are many ways in which our digitized world has allowed us to raise awareness like never before, but ACT UP's legacy reminds me that the Internet can give us the easy way out sometimes.

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Grannies Revisit Motherhood Because Of Uganda's HIV Epidemic

Twesigye Jackson Kaguri | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Aids Crisis, Corporate Philanthropy, Microfinance, AIDs Epidemic, Global Motherhood, Bblog-Globalmotherhood, Impact News
Twesigye Jackson Kaguri

In 2008 we began to help our students' caretakers, their elderly grandmothers. What began as a handful of guardians has blossomed into a program assisting over 6,200 grannies who are self-organized into 91 groups in three districts.

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Book Blames Colonialism For Birth Of AIDS In Africa

Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, British Colonialism, Video, Colonialism, Craig Timberg, Tinderbox, AIDs Epidemic, Daniel Halperin, HIV/AIDS Africa, Aids Origin, Black Voices News

It sounds like a scene out of the 1995 film "Outbreak," but authors Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin are touting some real-life evidence that pinpoin...

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Testing For HIV Together: The New Gay Relationship Milestone?

AP | By CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: Percentage of Gay Men Hiv Positive, HIV/AIDS, Video, National HIV Testing Day, HIV Testing, Gay Men Aids, AIDs Epidemic, Aids, Gay Men Hiv, Gay Voices News

CHICAGO -- Newly dating and slightly anxious, two men bared their arms for blood tests and pondered the possibility that one of them, or both, could b...

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WATCH: Local 'Rent' Production Promotes 'Vulgarity,' Critics Say

Posted 02.25.2012

Read More: Off-Broadway, Braodway, Rent Musical, Liberals, AIDs Epidemic, HIV/AIDS Stigma, Broadway Musicals, La Boheme, New York, New York City, Culture, HIV/AIDS, Jonathan Larson, Video, Conservatives, Homophobia, Promiscuity, Arts News

"I can't repeat some of the things people say on camera." Says George Green, Executive Artistic Director of the Lake City Playhouse in Idaho when aske...

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'Test and Treat:' What Newt Should Have Said on AIDS

Michael Weinstein | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, AIDS Treatment, Test and Treat, Newt Gingrich, South Carolina, Test and Treat AIDS, AIDs Epidemic, World AIDS Day, Politics News
Michael Weinstein

The status quo is unacceptable. The most direct path to ending this epidemic is the "Test and Treat" approach: increase testing to find those with HIV, link them to care, and get them on treatment.

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End Mother to Child Transmission -- Together, We Can Make a Difference

Gisele Bundchen | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, One, HIV/AIDS Africa, AIDs Epidemic, World AIDS Day, Red, Global Motherhood, Impact News
Gisele Bundchen

Today, more than 1,000 babies are born with HIV every day in the developing world. As a mother, this statistic really breaks my heart, especially when as many as 98% of these cases could be prevented.

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World AIDS Day, 9/11 and Miss Fire Island

John Polly | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, AIDS Deaths, Miss Fire Island, Fire Island, Aids, AIDs Epidemic, World AIDS Day 2011, World AIDS Day, Gay Voices News
John Polly

Suddenly we jumped from Miss Fire Island 1983 to Miss Fire Island 1998. Um, what? At first, I was like, "Are all those queens from the '80s and '90s really so busy they can't be here?" Then I got it: the missing queens weren't missing. They were gone.

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What You need To Know About World AIDS Day 2011

Rehema Trimiew | Posted 11.30.2011

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AIDS is still a global epidemic, however we have not given up hope that we can eradicate it. This year, the movement to end HIV/AIDS continues on Worl...

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WATCH: New HIV/AIDS Documentary Series Takes Poignant New Look At The Epidemic

Posted 11.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Video, HIV/AIDS Pandemic, HIV/AIDS Documentary, AIDs Epidemic, Aids, US Global AIDS Policy, 30 Years From Here, 30 Years From Here @Depressing, Aids Documentary, Gay Voices News

The HIV/AIDS epidemic gets a hard-hitting overview in a poignant new documentary series. Debuting Nov. 25, "30 Years From Here" uses personal acco...

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AIDS Epidemic Is Stabilizing, Though Many Remain Untreated: UN

AP | By MARIA CHENG | Posted 11.21.2011

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LONDON -- The AIDS epidemic is leveling off and the number of people newly infected with the virus that causes it has remained unchanged since 2007, t...

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The Beginning of the End of AIDS?

Deborah Dugan | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Every Woman Every Child, HIV/AIDS, Aids, Red Campaign, Maternal Health, Pepfar, AIDs Epidemic, Impact News
Deborah Dugan

Every generation is known for something. Will this be the one to deliver an AIDS Free Generation in 2015? It can be.

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President Obama, Will You Heed Archbishop Tutu's Call to Action?

Kolleen Bouchane | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Global Health, International AIDS Conference 2012, Poverty, AIDs Epidemic, President Barack Obama, International AIDS Conference, President Obama, Elections 2012, Democrats, Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, Aids, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, HIV/AIDS Africa, Action, #AIDS2012, Republicans, Impact News
Kolleen Bouchane

Are we confident that U.S. leadership on HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis will acknowledge the evidence about what is possible and rise to this challenge? Will President Obama heed Archbishop Tutu's call to action and do his part to end AIDS?

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Whatever Happened To The AIDS Vaccine?

Mitchell Warren | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Hiv, Aids, Vaccines, Healthy Living Health News, Healthy Living Body, AIDS Vaccine, HIV/AIDS, HIV Vaccine, AIDs Epidemic, Developing Aids Vaccine, Healthy Living News
Mitchell Warren

We don't yet have a blueprint for an effective vaccine to roll-out. But, as presented this week in Bangkok ... the science of an AIDS vaccine is vibrant and vital.

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Finding a Reason to Dance

Elisa Morgan | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: ONE Campaign, AIDS in Africa, Kenya, AIDs Epidemic, Onemoms, Video, Global Motherhood, Impact News
Elisa Morgan

I hadn't expected joy. Because in Kenya, moms and babies are dying. Way too many. The stats are alarming.

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If AIDS Is Only 30, Why Do I Feel So Very Old?

Thomas DeLorenzo | Posted 08.24.2011

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Thomas DeLorenzo

When the newspapers were ablaze with "AIDS at 30" I felt as if I should have gone out and gotten a cake, complete with the requisite 30 candles. In s...

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A Call For Public-Private Partnerships For HIV Prevention

Ward Cates | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS Africa, AIDs Epidemic, Antiretroviral Drugs, Public-Private Partnerships, Healthy Living Health News, Pharmaceutical Industry, Healthy Living Body, Aids Research, Arvs, HIV/AIDS Research, Healthy Living News
Ward Cates

As the world celebrates the latest scientific findings in the fight against AIDS/HIV, we are reminded that the public-private partnership involves being able to both "do good" and also "do well".

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Thirty Years of Dreamgirls and AIDS in America

Sheryl Lee Ralph | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Aids 30th Anniversary, Aids US, HIV/AIDS, Aids-Anniversary, Hiv US Women, Aids US Women, Aids Women, AIDs Epidemic, Dreamgirls, Hiv Women Statistics, Aids, HIV Statistics, Women News
Sheryl Lee Ralph

Dreamgirls was one of the best times in my life. But in the middle of it came the worst.

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30 Years Later, the Fight Against AIDS Continues Thanks to U.S. Leadership

Natasha F. Bilimoria | Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Global Health, International Development, Pepfar, Global Fund, AIDS Vaccine, Aids, AIDs Epidemic, Impact News
Natasha F. Bilimoria

Let's build on the progress made in the past 30 years and achieve our shared end goal -- a world free of HIV/AIDS.

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