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Ugandan Spy Arrested For Stealing Thousands From AIDS Fund

BBC | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: AIDs Epidemic, Foreign Affairs, AIDS Funding, Hiv, Ugandan Spy, Aids Epidemic in Africa, HIV/AIDS, Africa, HIV in Africa, HIV Prevention, Aids, Uganda, HIV/AIDS Africa, Aids Charity, Advocacy, World News

A Ugandan spy who set up a bogus charity and embezzled thousands of dollars of funding meant for Aids patients has been jailed for 10 years....

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Zimbabwe's Poor Healthcare System Causing Humanitarian Crisis

NYCity News Service | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zimbabwe Healthcare, Cholera Outbreak, Morgan Tsvangarai Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, Foreign Affairs, Cholera Zimbabwe, Malnutrition, Hiv, Anthrax, Tuberculosis, Zimbabwe Cholera, Zimbabwe Cholera Outbreak, HIV/AIDS, Morgan Tsvangarai, Cholera Epidemic, Humanitarian Crisis, Physicians for Human Rights, Cholera, HIV/AIDS Africa, Robert Mugabe, Health Care, Aids Zimbabwe, Advocacy, Healthcare Zimbabwe, Rhodesia, World News

The collapse of Zimbabwe's health system has created a humanitarian crisis where people are already suffering from a crippling hyperinflation and severe food, fuel and currency shortages.

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When Will Americans Reach the Promised Land of Universal Health Care?

Thomas DeLorenzo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hospice, HIV/AIDS, Politics, Health, AIDs Epidemic, Aids, Hiv, Washington DC, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Gay, Health Care, Healthcare, Gay Issues, Politics News

As I fool everyone with my Armani suits, deep down inside I remain a scared boy, praying each day that somehow there will be a end to this crisis called AIDS.

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Re-Gifting

Kate Clinton | Posted 11.17.2011

The same year I began my career, Pope John Paul and President Ronald Reagan began their careers. It was also the year that gay men began dying from AIDS.

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Pope Condom Quote Undermines Credibility

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Catholic Church, The O'Reilly Factor, Hiv, Africa, Raymond Arroyo, Condoms, Aids, Wayne Besen, Pope, Politics News

"You can't resolve HIV with the distribution of condoms," the Pope told reporters aboard the Alitalia plane headed to Yaounde, Cameroon. "On the contrary, it increases the problem."

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DC AIDS Rate Soars, Considered A 'Severe' Epidemic

Washington Post | Jose Antonio Vargas and Darryl Fears | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: AIDS Washington DC, Hiv, Aids, Washington D.C., HIV Washinton D.C., Home News

At least 3 percent of District residents have HIV or AIDS, a total that far surpasses the 1 percent threshold that constitutes a "generalized and seve...

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Worst Week Ever: Republicans Unhinged

Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citizenship, Congress, Hiv, Tony Perkins, Al Franken, 9/11, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Clarence Thomas, Same-Sex Marriage, John Sununu, Rnc, Kenneth the Page, Norm Coleman, Nancy Pelosi, Republican Party, Michael Steele, Bobby Jindal, Michael Bloomberg, Mitt Romney, Alabama, Newt Gingrich, Stormy Daniels, Minnesota, Barack Obama, Christian Issues, Susan Collins, Olympia Snow, Jon Huntsman, 30 Rock, Tom Delay, Helicopters, Christianity, Utah, Senate, David Vitter, Family Research Council, Ronald Reagan, Vermont, Democratic Party, California, Bob Smith, Charlie Crist, Nrsc, Hip Hop, New Hampshire, Sara Palin, Richard Shelby, Stimulus Package, Northeast, Arlen Specter, John McCain, Florida, Louisiana, Rush Limbaugh, Kentucky, Porn, Marine One, New York City, John Cornyn, Stuart Rothenberg, Rudy Giuliani, Jim Bunning, Presidential Campaign, Columbine, San Francisco, Fox News, Evolution, Gay Issues, Republicans Unhinged, Socialists, Politics News

This week, just like the stock market (funny how that goes), Republicans hit yet a new low.

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So You Think You Can Dance... For 26 Hours?

Levi Felix | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Hiv, Pediatric, Marathon, Ucla, Ackerman, Causecast, Dance, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Aids, 2009, Causes, Nonprofits, Healthy Living News

"Dance Marathon places students at the forefront of social change, illustrating that this generation will not simply sit back and watch injustice unfold."

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Indevus Gel Protects Women From AIDS Virus: Research

Reuters | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Indevus Gel, Indevus Gel Aids Virus Protection, Aids Virus Protection, Aids, Hiv, AIDS Virus, Aids Virus Protection Gel, Healthy Living News

An Indevus Pharmaceuticals gel formulated to protect women from the virus that causes AIDS appeared to protect about a third of them from infection --...

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Obama, Please Ignore Kristof For Now

Melissa Gira Grant | Posted 05.25.2011

The Bush administration has supported the raids of Cambodian brothels for at least as long as Kristof has been demanding they step up a fight they are already in -- and losing.

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Black AIDS Day

xxXGloria RubenXxx | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Centers for Disease Control, Whites, Latinos, Poverty, Statistics, US Poverty, National Black Aids Awareness Day, Siecus, AIDs Epidemic, Hiv, Race, Barack Obama, Sex Education, HIV/AIDS, Black People, Education, AIDS Awareness, Blacks, Caucasians, Health, Disease, Sex, Poverty and Health, Aids, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, African-Americans, African Americans, Antiretroviral Drugs, Politics News

We must turn a critical eye inward, and face the fact that HIV/AIDS has reached crisis levels among the Black population of the US. The statistics are startling.

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Playing Games with Women's Lives

Alex Horne | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Foreign Aid, Family Planning, Hiv, Ethiopia, Global Democracy Promotion Act, Zambia, Abortion Rights, President Obama, Mexico City Policy, Family Guidance Association, Planned Parenthood, US Congress, Womens Rights, Abortion Laws, Obama Abortion, Global Gag Rule, Condoms, Politics News

The Global Gag Rule restricts U.S. foreign aid to non-US-based organizations that provide legal voluntary abortion services or advocate for less restrictive abortion laws within their country.

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Where Violence Against Women Is Rampant

Zama Coursen-Neff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Papau New Guinea Woman Fire, Women's Rights, Usaid, Women, Rape, Women's Issues, Crazy, World, Children, Forced Sex, Papau New Guinea Fire, Hiv, Obama Administration, Aids Epidemic in Africa, Papua New Guinea Witchcraft, Papua New Guinea, Murder, HIV/AIDS, Witchcraft Africa, Women's Health, Law Reform Commission, Kids, HIV in Africa, Assault, HIV/AIDS Africa, Killings, Sorcery, World News

In Papua New Guinea, research indicates, two-thirds of women experience domestic violence, and 50 percent of women have experienced forced sex.

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Beyond the Global Gag Rule

Jodi Jacobson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Access to Health, Abortion, Women's Rights, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Hiv, Global Gag Rule, Contraception, Aids, Barack Obama Women's Issues, Women's Issues, Health, Obama Women's Issues, Obama Women's Rights, Politics News

Originally written for RHRealityCheck.org - Information, commentary and community for Reproductive Health and Justice. In Kenya, homeland of Presiden...

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Obama Asks Abstinence-Only AIDS Coodinator to Stay

Jodi Jacobson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Mark Dybul, Pepfar, Africa, Aids, Abstinence-Only, Hiv, Obama, Unaids, US Aids Policy, Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, Global Aids Coordinator, Religious Right, World Health Organization, HIV Abstinance-Only, Politics News

Global AIDS Coordinator Dybul is morally responsible for speaking out when taxpayer funding is being used to perpetuate ideology over evidence, and is leaving people at risk of new infections.

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HIV Activists Sentenced in Senegal: The Other Side of Rick Warren's "Humanitarian Issue"

Scott Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Christianity is a belief, a choice. Sexuality is gift from God, for believers. I am gay, I don't "believe" I'm gay, and I never had a choice, for which I thank God everyday.

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New Bill Would Allow Federal Funds for Syringe Exchange

Jodi Jacobson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Syringe Exchange, Hiv, Prevention, Aids, Pepfar, Jose Serrano, Needle Exchange, Health, Public Health, Healthy Living News

Syringe exchange and other tales of corrupted policy are the neglected underbelly of the global AIDS success story of the Bush Administration, undermining efforts to prevent new infections.

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AIDS Charity and our Domestic Needs

Cord Jefferson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Sub-Saharan Africa, Infectious Diseases, World, Africa, Aids, Hiv, HIV/AIDS Africa, Aids Statistics, World AIDS Day, Healthy Living News

Among Manhattan's middle-aged black men, the HIV/AIDS rates are comparable to those of sub-Saharan Africa. Blacks in the United States are at a flash point in their struggle with AIDS.

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On the 20th Anniversary of World AIDS Day, Turning the Corner for People Living with HIV

Dr. Ana Langer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, AIDS Discrimination, Hiv Health Care, Hiv Infections, Health, Aids, Hiv, Health Care, World AIDS Day, Ukraine, Politics News

As people live longer with HIV, new challenges have emerged. Chief among them are the effects of social stigma and discrimination against people with HIV.

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The Day of the Red Ribbon

Dr. Logan Levkoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, US Hiv Rates, Health, Aids, Red Ribbon, Hiv, Sex Education, World AIDS Day, Reagan Hofmann, Hiv Awareness, AIDS Awareness, Sexual Health, AIDs Epidemic, Hiv Infections, Style News

If HIV is preventable, why are there over 56,000 new infections in this country every year? Why is it that red ribbons are only worn on World AIDS Day -- or occasionally to the Academy Awards?

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What World AIDS Day Means To Me

Susan Smith Ellis | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, AIDS Awareness, AIDS Activism, Health, (RED), Aids, Hiv, HIV/AIDS Africa, (RED)Wire, (RED) Starbucks, World AIDS Day, Healthy Living News

For me, today is a day where I think of what still needs to be done, of the literally millions of people we still need to help in Africa who are fighting to survive.

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A Post-Thanksgiving Cornucopia: World AIDS Day, The Birth of (RED)WIRE, Milk and Prop 8

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prop 6, Congress, Hiv, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ontario, Who, Dixie Chicks, Asia, China, Wolrd Health Foundation, Gay Adoption, Ali Partovi, Olympic Bird's Nest, Patna Women's College, The Killers, W Hotels, Premiere Wen Jiabao, Aids, Elvis Costello, World AIDS Day, Melissa Etheridge, Latin America, President Barack Obama, Rod Stewart, Nand Kishore Yadev, Sheryl Crow, The Police, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Emile Hirsch, Coldplay, India, Matthew Sheppard, James Franco, Starbucks, Gay Marriage, Jay-Z, Josh Brolin, Toronto, Prop 8, Spider-Man, Canada, Sean Penn, Keith Olbermann, California, Don MacKinnon, Lisa Gurry, W, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Senator Barbara Boxer, (RED), Elton John, World Health Organization, Kargil Chowk, Hear Music, Senator John v. Briggs, High School Music, John Legend, Unicef, Molly Johnson, Msn, Lucas Grabeel, United States, Harvey Milk, Gus Van Sant, Death Cab for Cutie, Into the Wild, President George W. Bush, Itunes, Carribean, Matthew Shepard, Ilike, Entertainment News

The new online digital magazine (RED)WIRE will sponsor a series of unique performances by artists such as U2 and Sheryl Crow, in its bid to help fight AIDS.

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Study: HIV Could Be Eliminated In A Decade

AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Hiv, HIV Cure, AIDs Epidemic, Aids Cure, Aids, Healthy Living News

LONDON — The virus that causes AIDS could theoretically be eliminated in a decade if all people living in countries with high infection rates ar...

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HIV Scare at St. Louis High School

Abigail Jones | Posted 11.17.2011

Normandy High School officials should have come out strongly, advocating openness, pushing sex education, and acknowledging the problems and pressures of teenage life.

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McCain Works Against Access To Contraception, Does He Consider It Murder?

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conscience Clauses, John McCain, Republicans, Hiv, Abortion, Presidential Debates, Democrats, Contraception-as-Murder, Barack Obama, Home News

Once again, the media and even Democratic candidate Obama have failed to follow-up on McCain's stated opposition to abortion by questioning his equal opposition to contraception - the primary means to reduce the rate of abortion.

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