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UN's HIV Prevention Strategy Targets Young People

AP | By DONNA BRYSON | Posted 08.01.2011 | Healthy Living
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JOHANNESBURG -- When AIDS counselor Patience Ncusani urges teens in her Soweto neighborhood to wait to have sex, or cautions young women that an older...

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UNAIDS Head: Pope's HIV-Condom View Helpful

AP | By NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 07.31.2011 | Religion
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VATICAN CITY -- The head of the U.N. AIDS agency told a Vatican conference Saturday that the pope had opened the door to greater dialogue with his gro...

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HIV Prevention Breakthrough: Early Treatment Protects Partners (VIDEO)

Posted 07.13.2011 | Home
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Condoms in the Foyer

Alyson Renaldo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: HIV Prevention, Safe Sex, Impact, Donation, Condoms, Guyana, Undercover Condoms, Sex, Impact News
Alyson Renaldo

"I'm sure everyone has heard this line before, but the condoms aren't mine." Those at Undercover Condoms online donate 12,000 condoms for a safe-sex initiative in Guyana, South America.

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On International Women's Day: New Promise for Empowering Women

Ward Cates | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: HIV/AIDS, HIV Prevention, Women's Empowerment, Microbicides, Mhealth, International Women's Day, Mwomen, Women's Day, Home News
Ward Cates

Winning the fight to empower women will require all of us with an interest in global health and development to bring adequate resources, smart and coordinated strategies, and our total commitment to HIV-prevention.

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Women Living With HIV: A Lesson in Resilience and Rights That US Congress, the World Cannot Ignore

Serra Sippel | Posted 06.17.2011 | World
Read More: Family Planning, Hiv, Women HIV, HIV Prevention, International Women's Day 2011, International Women's Day Centennial, Contraception, International Women's Day, Maternal Health, Global Health Initiative, World News
Serra Sippel

How will we be remembered in another 100 years? Will this be the Congress that spent wisely and honored commitments, or did not pay the slightest bit of attention while women were senselessly dying around us?

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'It's Never Just HIV' Ad Campaign Oversimplifies the Issue

Sean Strub | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Sean Strub

This ad campaign is terrible. It assumes the intended audience can be manipulated by over-the-top fright messages, speaks down to them and assumes they are presently not caring whether or not they get HIV.

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No Turning Back: Pursuing the promise of HIV prevention

Mitchell Warren | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: HIV Prevention, HIV/AIDS, Microbicides, Pre-Exposure-Prophylaxis, AIDS Vaccine, World AIDS Day, Home News
Mitchell Warren

Last week, 2,499 gay and bisexual men and transgender women from four continents made history when the iPrEx HIV prevention trial reported positive re...

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South Africa's 'Government Condom' Campaign Has Mixed Results

GlobalPost | Iva Skoch | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Julie Peroni liked everything about her new boyfriend and she couldn't wait for the first time he spent the night. "Things...

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Tanzania Uses Wall Murals For Sex Education (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Sex Education, Masturbation, Hiv, Sex, Wall Murals, HIV Prevention, Tanzania, Genital Mutilation, Sex Education Campaign, World News

Like subway posters or highway billboards, wall murals have long been popular as a form of cheap advertising in Tanzania for such products as Coca-Col...

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We Must Address the AIDS Crisis Facing Latinos

Paul Kawata | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Latinos, Latinos Hiv, National Latino Aids Awareness Day, AIDS Awareness, Hispanic Voters, Hispanic Heritage Month, Hiv Education, Hispanics, HIV Prevention, Latinos Aids, Impact News
Paul Kawata

While Latinos account for only 15 percent of the American population, they make up 18 percent of people living with HIV and 19 percent of new AIDS diagnoses.

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The Real Reason why Gay Men don't use Condoms

Mike Alvear | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
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Mike Alvear

Bottom Line: Anybody who gets HIV is a victim, even if their stupidity contributed to the infection. When friends suffer, they deserve compassion, not criticism.

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How HIV Prevention Has to Change

Chris Collins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Chris Collins

Without important changes in the way our country addresses HIV/AIDS, in five years the annual rate of 56,000 new infections is more likely to grow than to decline.

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Financing Global Health Aid and Protecting Wall Street: Enact a Financial Speculation Tax

Anand Reddi | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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Anand Reddi

A 0.005% financial speculation tax -- a "pinprick" for international banks -- would be an important stream of revenue for domestic and global development initiatives.

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Truth and Reconciliation: President Obama's Global Health Initiative and HIV/AIDS -- Raising the Bar

Anand Reddi | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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Anand Reddi

Eradication of HIV is possible if the world community remains fully committed to funding cost-effective antiretroviral treatment initiatives. Treating our way out is indeed possible.

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United States Global Health Policy: HIV/AIDS Treatment Funding At Risk Under President Obama

Anand Reddi | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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Anand Reddi

The diminishing commitment by the G8 towards HIV/AIDS treatment funding is a major topic at the Vienna AIDS conference. Sadly, the perception that HIV/AIDS is no longer an emergency is misinformed.

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D.C. Teens Say Free Condoms Are Too Small, Weak

Washington Post | Tim Craig | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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High school students and college-age adults have been complaining to District officials that the free condoms the city has been offering are not of go...

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No time for complacency in the fight against HIV and Aids

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
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Louis Belanger

Delegates arriving at the thirteenth International AIDS conference this week could be forgiven for not knowing whether to pat themselves on the back o...

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Scientists Discover Antibodies That Kill 90% Of HIV Strains

AOL News | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
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American scientists are touting a major stride toward a vaccine that can ward off HIV, after finding two key proteins that neutralize 91 percent of th...

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MDs Contribute to the HIV Epidemic. Seriously.

Dr. Logan Levkoff | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Dr. Logan Levkoff

At first I thought it was a fluke. But then I heard the same story told again. Different friend. Different doctor. Same problem. I have been telling...

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Fathers Can Stop Violence, Too

Dr. Paul Zeitz | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Dr. Paul Zeitz

This weekend I, like many other fathers in this country, had the joy of celebrating Father's Day with my family. As Dad to five sons, I take special pleasure in helping them to become positive forces in the world.

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As Kenya locks up people without condoms, Aids and TB are breaking out of prisons

Joe Amon | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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Joe Amon

This post originally appeared in the June 7, 2010 edition of The East African Kenya has shown an impressive commitment to combating HIV and tuberculo...

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In Talking about Women and AIDS, Lips Stay Sealed -- Fighting AIDS is Not a One-Woman Job

Nancy Mahon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
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Nancy Mahon

Nearly 75 percent of American women do not know their HIV status and do not think they need to -- a deadly misconception. We've launched a new campaign to drive awareness about this risk.

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"Rockin' the Red Pump" for HIV/AIDS Awareness

Bessie A. Winn-Afeku | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: HIV Prevention, HIV/AIDS, Social Media, Teens and Sex, AIDS Awareness, African American Women, Women's Health, Impact News
Bessie A. Winn-Afeku

I'm an African-American woman and my age falls within the range of 25 to 34. The number one killer of women with in my demographic is HIV/AIDS and it can easily be avoided.

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U.S. Congressmember Carolyn Maloney on Abhorrent Anti-Gay Legislation in Uganda

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Jim Luce

On Thought Leaders and Global Citizens. U.S. Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney, representing Manhattan's Upper East Side, Roosevelt Island, and Wester...

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