Hiv and Aids

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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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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AIDS: From Judgement To Hope

Katherine Marshall | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: HIV and AIDS, Southeast Asia, Uganda, Isobel-Coleman, Hany El Banna, Malawi, South Asia, Gideon Byamugisha, Community of Sant'Egidio, Beatrice Chipeta, HIV/AIDS, World AIDS Day, Religion News
Katherine Marshall

Religious people, communities and institutions were often the first to recognize the pain and suffering the disease caused, for individuals, families, and societies. Saintly nuns and volunteers of many sorts cared for the sick and dying...

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Moving Forward on FDA Review of HIV Prevention Drugs

Anand Reddi | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Truvada, HIV Prevention, HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, Healthy Living Health News, HIV and AIDS, Healthy Living Body, HIV Prevention Drug Review, HIV Prevention Medications, HIV Prevention Drug Testing, HIV Prevention Drugs, HIV and Truvada, Healthy Living News
Anand Reddi

AIDS activists must aspire for responsible advocacy. I encourage AHF to adopt a more pragmatic strategy regarding FDA review of PrEP.

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Hatch Attacks Essential Services for Low-Income Communities Under Health Care Reform

Jodi Jacobson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, HIV and AIDS, Prevention, Essential Service Providers, Health Care Reform, Medically Underinsured, Contraception, Help Committee, Low-Income Communities, Politics News
Jodi Jacobson

Republicans must turn on the lights, look under the bed, open the closet door and realize that neither women's health issues writ large, nor Planned Parenthood specifically are the bogeymen.

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Unconscionable Policies, Dangerous Politics

Jodi Jacobson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Provider Rights, HIV and AIDS, Conscience Clauses, Social Contract, Patient Rights, Health, Reproductive Rights, Health Care Reform, Politics News
Jodi Jacobson

It's one thing for private practitioners to decide not to offer certain services, birth control, for example. It's another to use tax dollars to impose religious principals that deny a specific service.

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