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WATCH: The Past 50 Years As A Gay Person Distilled Into One Video

The Huffington Post | Christopher Rudolph | Posted 06.17.2013 | Gay Voices
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Gay activist/artist Leo Herrera has released a video entitled "The Fortune Teller" which is comprised of videos and images from the past 50 years of ...

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Alicia Keys: Women With AIDS 'Could Be My Sister'

AP | STACY A. ANDERSON | Posted 04.17.2013 | Impact
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WASHINGTON -- Alicia Keys says she wants to spark a global conversation about HIV/AIDS. The Grammy Award-winning singer says that when she traveled t...

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Hoax Tweet Shows Magic Johnson 'Donating Blood' For Charity

The Huffington Post | Eleanor Goldberg | Posted 03.25.2013 | Impact
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Note: If you see a picture of Magic Johnson getting an injection, it’s probably not because the star, who has HIV, is donating blood. Twitter wa...

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Fiji High Commissioner: China Stepped in When US and UK Withdrew

Eddie Walsh | Posted 05.14.2013 | World
Read More: Pacific Islands Forum, Australia, New Zealand, Climate Change, Hillary Clinton, China, Fiji, Foreign Policy, European Union, Fisheries, Condoleezza Rice, Hiv Aids, World News
Eddie Walsh

In a speech last Tuesday, the Fiji High Commissioner to the United Kingdom maintained that "the (U.S.) and China to Pacific Islanders represent two sides of the same coin." Yet, his remarks expressed far more criticism of western engagement in the region than that of China.

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World AIDS Day 2012: A Roadmap for Ending HIV/AIDS

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 12.05.2012 | Healthy Living
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Susan Blumenthal, M.D.

This World AIDS Day is a celebration of the achievements that have been made and the acceleration of progress in recent years, providing proof that ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic is not only feasible but achievable.

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Ending HIV in the United States: The Ultimate Challenge

Scott W. Royal, Ph.D. | Posted 01.30.2013 | Healthy Living
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Scott W. Royal, Ph.D.

The stigma associated with HIV is only partially to blame. More problematic is the difficulty of reaching the most vulnerable members of the U.S. population who are living with HIV but unaware of their status: racial and ethnic minorities, the poor and disenfranchised, and people who are homeless.

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Architecting the End of AIDS

Desmond Tutu | Posted 01.29.2013 | Impact
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Desmond Tutu

History shows when we take action before the peak of disaster, enormous gains can be realized. If more world leaders support a bold plan like the "Blueprint for an AIDS-Free Generation," we could find ourselves on the flip side of the global disaster of AIDS that much faster.

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WATCH: Young Woman Tells Friend She Has HIV

The Huffington Post | William McGuinness | Posted 11.27.2012 | College
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Research suggests young Americans live this scene at higher rates in 2012 -- about 30 years after America itself struggled to come to terms with it. ...

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Jennifer Bendery

Bono, Richard Gere Honor Nancy Pelosi For HIV/AIDS Work

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 06.05.2012 | Politics
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WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was honored Tuesday by U2 lead singer Bono and actor Richard Gere, among others, at a priv...

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Giving Power to Couples to End the AIDS Epidemic

Michel Sidibé | Posted 07.07.2012 | Healthy Living
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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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HIV Vaccine Okayed For Human Testing

The Huffington Post | Jocelyn Richard | Posted 12.20.2011 | Home
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Canadian researchers received approval Tuesday from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin testing an experimental and potentially breakthroug...

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Meaningful Change: An AIDS-free Generation by 2015

Deborah Dugan | Posted 01.31.2012 | Impact
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Deborah Dugan

After more than three decades of destruction, we are finally at a turning point and on a path to winning the war against HIV/AIDS.

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Mike Sacks

Justices Not Moved By HIV-Positive Pilot's Distress

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 11.30.2011 | Politics
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WASHINGTON -- A majority of the Supreme Court appeared unlikely Wednesday morning to help a California man who claims he suffered severe mental and em...

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Obama, Bush, Clinton, Activists To Participate In World AIDS Day Talk

AP | Posted 11.29.2011 | Impact
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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and two former presidents, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, are joining top anti-AIDS advocates for a panel discu...

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Gates Foundation Gives Millions For Research On Malaria, HIV, More

AP | By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP | Posted 09.12.2011 | Impact
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SEATTLE -- Using microwaves to kill malaria parasites and developing a way to give fetuses immunity to HIV are among the dozen ideas the Bill & Melind...

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More People Living With HIV As Treatments Extend Lives, CDC Says

AP | By MIKE STOBBE | Posted 08.02.2011 | Healthy Living
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ATLANTA -- New government statistics show about 1.1 million Americans were living with the AIDS virus in 2008, an increase of about 71,000 from 2006. ...

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In Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Clarence B. Jones | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Clarence B. Jones

The principal 21st-century challenge to our country from the legacy of Dr. King is how we effectively recommit ourselves to the pursuit of nonviolent conflict resolution and increased equal access by all Americans to economic opportunity.

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Moving Toward An HIV-Free Generation

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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Susan Blumenthal, M.D.

Every hour, two young people in the U.S. become infected with HIV; of those who do become infected, approximately 80 percent do not know that they are HIV-positive.

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"Rapid Response" to an Ancient Issue (VIDEO)

Kate Otto | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Public Health, Climate Change, Rapid Response Network, United Nations, New Yorker, Environmentalists, World Bank, Hiv Aids, Natural Resources Defense Council, Green News
Kate Otto

Reversing climate change sounds, to me, a lot like trying to overcome HIV/AIDS: at the heart of the struggle, we are trying to change the behavior of individuals who feel untouched by the issue.

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The Lesser-Known Complications Of HIV

Erin N. Marcus, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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Erin N. Marcus, M.D.

Research suggests that long-term exposure to HIV, and to the inflammation it triggers, make people vulnerable to premature aging and to a host of conditions seen with aging, like osteoporosis.

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HIV Risk Survey: 1 In 22 African Americans Will Get HIV, CDC Says

AP | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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ATLANTA — Health officials estimate that 1 in 22 black Americans will be diagnosed with the AIDS virus in their lifetime – more than twice...

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U.S. HIV Study Finds Higher Infections Linked To Poverty

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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ATLANTA — Poverty is perhaps the most important factor in whether inner-city heterosexuals are infected with the AIDS virus, according to the fi...

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UN: HIV Among Young People Going Down In Africa

AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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LONDON — The number of young people infected with HIV in Africa is falling in 16 of the 25 countries hardest hit by the virus, according to a ne...

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New HIV Strain Discovered In Woman From Cameroon

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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WASHINGTON — A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the ...

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