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AIDS Drug Cocktail Cuts Death Rate By Half

Posted 01.04.2010 | Impact

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Taking a cocktail of powerful AIDS drugs appears to have cut the average death rate by half in a group of people infected ...

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HIV/AIDS Immigration Ban Preventing Entrance To U.S. Lifted After 22 Years

BBC News | Posted 01.04.2010 | Politics

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The US has lifted a 22-year immigration ban which has stopped anyone with HIV/Aids from entering the country....

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Judge Rejects Mandatory Condoms On LA Porn Sets

AP | Posted 12.23.2009 | Los Angeles

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Uganda's Anti-Gay Law: Opposition Grounded in Bipartisan Confluence of Human Rights and Public Health

Dr. Mark Dybul | Posted 12.19.2009 | World

Read More: Unaids, Uganda, Anti-Gay Laws, Hiv, Africa, Rick Warren, Obama, Obama Administration, Aids, AIDS in Africa, World News
Dr. Mark Dybul

Gay men and women cannot be legislated out of existence. The practical impact of a proposed anti-gay law will be to undermine Uganda's efforts to combat its HIV epidemic.

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Combatting HIV/AIDS in Africa: Soccer Instead of Unsafe Sex

Bernard Pollack | Posted 12.18.2009 | World

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Bernard Pollack

Boredom -- and drinking -- often led to unsafe sex with prostitutes at the truck stops along the highway. As a result, truck drivers have one of the highest rates of HIV/AIDS in Eastern Africa.

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HIV-Positive Man Injects Sleeping Wife With His Blood, Infecting Her

Posted 12.06.2009 | World

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A 35-year-old HIV-positive man in New Zealand injected his blood into his wife while she was sleeping, thereby infecting her with the virus, court doc...

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HIV Adoption: It's Happening

Leslie Goldman | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living

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Leslie Goldman

Like many of the two million other children worldwide living with HIV, Sachi, born September 10, 2007, contracted the virus from her birth mother, who was a sex worker in Mysore, India.

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Today Is World AIDS Day

Saul Garlick | Posted 12.02.2009 | World

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Saul Garlick

On November 29, 1983, a New York Times article written by Lawrence K. Altman ran with the headline “AIDS Now Seen As Worldwide Health Problem.&r...

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Youth with HIV Find Their Voice

Rena Greifinger | Posted 12.01.2009 | Impact

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Rena Greifinger

Young people 10 to 24 years old make up one of the most vulnerable, yet historically overlooked populations affected by the HIV pandemic. They need our help raise awareness, not just today, but everyday.

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World AIDS Day 2009: The Business Imperative

Richard H. Wilkins | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business

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Richard H. Wilkins

In addition to the human tragedy, AIDS has economic implications. Its spread threatens the health, stability and viability of the global work force. Businesses must not only join, but lead the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS.

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AIDS Silence: America's New Gay Plague

David Kaufman | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

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David Kaufman

Nearly three decades after the epidemic's arrival, AIDS remains if exactly not off-limits -- then certainly off the radar screens of many prominent LGBT leaders. This needs to end.

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Heroes and Villains... A World AIDS Day Reaction

Leigh Blake | Posted 12.01.2009 | Impact

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Bill Clinton, Global Aids, Aids, Hiv, Alicia Keys, Keep a Child Alive, The Black Ball, Barack Obama, Leigh Blake, Impact News
Leigh Blake

In the same way that we bailed out the financial institutions as an matter of emergency, we can eradicate extreme poverty for a fraction of the price. And thereby make terrorism and hatred toward the U.S. a thing of the past.

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Namibia Women Face Forced Sterilization

Priti Patel | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Sterilization, Lac, Forced Sterilization, Hiv, Namibia, Aids, ICW-Nambia, World News
Priti Patel

Advocacy groups in Namibia have documented the stories of dozens of HIV-positive women who were sterilized against their will in public hospitals.

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AIDS Is The No. 1 Cause Of Death, Disease For Women 15-44, Says WHO

AP | BRADLEY S. KLAPPER | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

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GENEVA — In its first study of women's health around the globe, the World Health Organization said Monday that the AIDS virus is the leading cau...

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Celeb Book "Dear Me" Sends Money To Elton John AIDS Foundation

Posted 11.03.2009 | Impact

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What would Emma Thompson, Desmond Tutu and Debbie Harry say to their 16-year-old selves if they had the chance? You can find out and help fund AIDS re...

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Before We Pass Health Insurance Reform, We Must Do More to Limit Big Pharma's Monopoly on Biologics

Marcy Winograd | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

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Marcy Winograd

In Congress, I will work to support affordable prices on biologics, so that victims of cancer, HIV, diabetes, Parkinsons, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis can afford the medicine they need to stay alive.

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HIV Travel Ban Lifted By President Obama

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Friday the U.S. will overturn a 22-year-old travel and immigration ban against people with HIV early ne...

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One Step Closer to Universal AIDS Prevention and Care

Susan Smith Ellis | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

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Susan Smith Ellis

It can cost as little as 40 cents a day to provide ARV treatment to an individual in Africa and just $26 to provide the medicine to help prevent the transmission of HIV from a mother to her child.

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Woman Denied Health Care Insurance After Rape Tells Her Story (Video)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Christina Turner, Huffpost Investigative Fund, Hiv, Preexisting Condition, Rape, rapeisnotapreexistingcondition.com, Sexual Assault, Gender Equality, Insurance Industry, Rapisnotaprexistingcondition, Anderson Cooper, Women's Health, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Health Reform, Com, Politics News

Christina Turner was drugged and raped by two men in 2002. After taking anti-HIV drugs prescribed by her doctor as a preventative measure, Turner was ...

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A Generation Free of HIV

Nigel Barker | Posted 10.23.2009 | Impact

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Nigel Barker

Every year, nearly 370,000 children worldwide are infected with HIV. The numbers are staggering -- but it doesn't have to be this way.

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Sunday Morning Doubts About the Man

Lisa Guest | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Liars, Unconscious, Fear, Hiv, Doubt, Deception, Dating, Oprah, Woman, Man, The Truth?, Relationship Advice, Living News
Lisa Guest

Anyone can say anything. Anyone can come up with a line. With a gift bag gab of wisdom, knowledge and confidence, someone can really cover the world and be quite deceptive. There are those that do it. They make it bad for the rest.

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The Spiritual Lessons of HIV

Mark Olmsted | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

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Mark Olmsted

I learned to remind myself, every time that I felt tempted to internalize the societal stigma around HIV, that I contracted this disease in the search for human intimacy.

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An AIDS Vaccine is Now More than a Dream

Mitchell Warren | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, HIV Vaccine, Hiv, AIDS Vaccine, Microbicides, Thailand, Aids, Avac, Thai, Politics News
Mitchell Warren

Before embarking on the necessary process of questioning and debating the results of a recent HIV prevention trial, the world should take a moment to celebrate an historic finding.

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First HIV Vaccine Helps Prevent AIDS Infection

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE and MICHAEL CASEY | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

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BANGKOK — For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and ...

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The Politics of AIDS and Health Care Reform

Johnathon Briggs | Posted 11.23.2009 | Chicago

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Johnathon Briggs

50 percent of all those living with HIV currently lack needed medical care. The impact of health reform on efforts to control the epidemic could be profound.

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