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Challenging Ourselves To Do More in Africa

Sen. Dick Durbin | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Health Care in Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, ONE Campaign, Global Fund, Africa, Malaria, Poverty in Africa, AIDS in Africa, Politics News
Sen. Dick Durbin

I don't agree with the president about much, but we both feel that improving access to health care is one of the most important things our country can provide to the people of Africa.

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My Conversation with Damien Hirst

Charlie Rose | Posted 02.14.2008 | Media

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Bono, Damien Hirst, RED Auction, Charlie Rose, Red, Media News
Charlie Rose

2008-02-15-rosehirstpull.jpgArtist Damien Hirst discusses his (RED) auction.

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Can a Kenyan Peace Agreement Stem Rape?

Muadi Mukenge | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Sexual Violence, Violence in Kenya, Rape, Kenya, Africa, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Kenya and Post-Election Violence, Women and War, Liberia, HIV/AIDS Africa, Women in Africa, Kenya and Violence, Africa Rape, Politics News
Muadi Mukenge

Kenya's post-electoral mayhem highlights a horrifying but less well-known aspect to this trend: an increase in sexual violence in the wake of flawed democratic processes that trigger uprisings.

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And Then There Were Two

Phill Wilson | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: AIDS Black America, HIV/AIDS, Hillary Clinton, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News
Phill Wilson

Through 17 debates in every corner of this country, AIDS has barely been mentioned. HIV/AIDS is the preeminent health issue in Black America. It is a civil rights issue.

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Think You Know the "Godsquad?"

William Fisher | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraqi Refugees, Abortion, Institute of the Sisters of Mercy, US Poverty, Evangelical Christians, Rev. David Gushee, Anne Curtis, Evangelicals for Social Action, Stem Cell Research, HIV/AIDS, Evangelicals for Human Rights, School Prayer, Climate Change, Iraq, Faith in Public Life, Gay Marriage, Torture, Politics News
William Fisher

All evangelicals aren't loyal Bushies. They aren't even all Republicans. And they're certainly not homogenous. On many, many issues, they're pretty much like most of those who are reading this column.

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Proteins Lead To AIDS Breakthrough

AP | Posted 01.11.2008 | Living

Read More: AIDS Protein Treatment, HIV/AIDS, AIDS Treatment, AIDS Protein, New AIDS Drugs, Living News

The AIDS virus has to hijack human proteins to do its damage, but scientists until now have known only a few dozen of its targets. On Thursday, Harvar...

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Edwards, Not Obama, is Mr. Africa

Robert Naiman | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, International Monetary Fund, Dennis Kucinich, Africa, World Bank, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Imf, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Obama Africa, Politics News
Robert Naiman

It seems that unlike his Democratic rivals, Sen. Obama would not commit to $50 billion in new funding in coming years to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis & malaria.

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U.S. Presidential Candidates' Health Care Plans 2008: HIV/AIDS Proposals -- A Time for Leadership

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics

Read More: Aids, HIV/AIDS, World AIDS Day, Politics News
Susan Blumenthal, M.D.

The resurgence of HIV underscores why leadership is needed in the fight against this disease and why the candidates must describe proposals to address this pandemic now.

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That Was Then...

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics

Read More: Aids, HIV/AIDS, Mike Huckabee AIDS, Mike Huckabee, AIDS Quarantine, Huckabee AIDS Quarantine, Politics News
Charles Karel Bouley

When I hear about the 13 percent increase of HIV/AIDS in my community, I can't despise Huckabee for what he said about a quarantine. Our way doesn't seem to be working.

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Obey and Pelosi Fiddle While Rome Burns

James Wagoner | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics

Read More: Teen Pregnancy Rate, Pelosi, Abstinence, Hiv, Teen Birth Rate, HIV/AIDS, Contraceptives, Abstinence Only, Sex, Nancy Pelosi, Abstinence-Only, Teen Pregnancy, Abstinence Education, Teen Sex, Anti-Choice, Pro-Choice, Politics News
James Wagoner

Not a single amendment was offered in the House by pro-choice "champions" to bring a halt to the funding of programs that spread ignorance in the era of AIDS.

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An Evening with Desmond Tutu

Craig Kielburger | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, The Fight for Clean Water, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Fighting Poverty, Poverty, World Social Forum, Apartheid, Nobel Peace Prize, Desmond Tutu Peace Centre, HIV/AIDS Africa, Desmond Tutu, Racism in South Africa, F.W. De Klerk, Education in Africa, Politics News
Craig Kielburger

From fighting apartheid and encouraging reconciliation to advocating for the poor, Desmond Tutu has had one clear message: once we see each other reflected in our own eyes, and once we commit to listening and cooperating, we can live in peace.

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Estimate Of Annual US AIDS Cases Rises By 50 Percent

Washington Post | David Brown | Posted 12.01.2007 | Home

Read More: US AIDS Cases, HIV/AIDS, Aids, US AIDS Estimate, Home News

New government estimates of the number of Americans who become infected with the AIDS virus each year are 50 percent higher than previous calculations...

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World AIDS Day: Dancing Our Way To A Better World

Laiah Idelson | Posted 12.01.2007 | Living

Read More: Make a Difference, HIV/AIDS, World AIDS Day, Living News
Laiah Idelson

Dancing for six hours straight in a college-campus building might sound like a bizarre way for college students to spend a Friday night. But this Worl...

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World AIDS Day 2007: Electing to Fight Against HIV/AIDS

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, World AIDS Day, Politics News
Susan Blumenthal, M.D.

It's concerning that so few of the presidential candidates have described their plans for leadership in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

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Evangelicals Give Hillary Standing Ovation At AIDS Summit

Orange County Register | MARTIN WISCKOL | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Democratic Primary, Evangelical Christians, 2008 Presidential Race, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Hillary Clinton, 2008 Election, Evangelicals, Politics News

Many evangelical Christians have taken issue with Hillary Clinton for promoting abortion rights, gay rights and teen condom use, but you wouldn't have...

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(RED) One Year Anniversary

Bobby Shriver | Posted 11.30.2007 | Living

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Red Campaign, World AIDS Day, Living News
Bobby Shriver

The worst thing any of us -- individuals or companies ─ can do is do nothing. AIDS isn't a fad to fight once a year.

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World AIDS Day: Putting a Human Face on the Numbers

Josh Ruxin | Posted 11.27.2007 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, Anti-Retroviral, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Aids, Aids Epidemic in Africa, HIV/AIDS Africa, World AIDS Day, Politics News
Josh Ruxin

The real question this World AIDS Day is not, "how did we miscount the infected by 6 million?" but rather, "how did we allow another 2.1 million to perish from a treatable disease?"

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Clinton's Needle Exchange Program

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 11.27.2007 | Politics

Read More: Needle Exchange Program, Aids Needle Exchange Program Clinton, HIV/AIDS, Clinton Needle Exchange, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Needle Exchange Program, Politics News

The Times mentions in passing today in its story on Clinton's new HIV/AIDS proposals that Hillary "also backs federal financing for needle exchange pr...

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The Katrina of Public Health

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.26.2007 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Abstinence Only, AIDS Washington D.C., AIDs Epidemic, Abstinence, AIDS African Americans, Abstinence Education, D.C., Sex Education, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

An epidemic so close to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue can't help but make one wonder if federal policy, or non-policy, is at the nucleus of the AIDS health catastrophe.

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Dim Lights on the Great White Way

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 11.26.2007 | Media

Read More: Broadway Strike, HIV/AIDS, The Ritz, Hiv, Broadway, Broadway Cares, Aids, Rosie Perez, Media News
Joe Cutbirth

Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS is losing $40,000 a day -- more than a quarter million dollars a week -- in voluntary contributions every day the strike continues.

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Thanksgiving Days

Beth Arnold | Posted 11.21.2007 | Living

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Thanksgiving, Aids, David Halberstam, Living News
Beth Arnold

My brother Brent died of AIDS two days before Thanksgiving 17 years ago--November 20, 1990--when he was 34 years old. The physicians wanted to help but knew little to nothing about AIDS.

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Health Diplomacy: A Prescription for Peace

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 11.19.2007 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Military, Infectious Diseases, World Health Organization, Disease, Miltary Foreign Policy, Pew Poll Military Engagement, Malaria, Aids, Tb, Acheiving Peace, Health Diplomacy, Politics News
Susan Blumenthal, M.D.

Americans have only returned to recognizing that improving global health, in terms of preventing and treating both infectious and chronic diseases, must be a public policy priority.

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Second Class Even In Death

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 11.01.2007 | Politics

Read More: First Amendment, Fred Phelps, Christians Gays, Picketing Funerals, Homosexuals, HIV/AIDS, Freedom of Speech, Homosexuality, Iraq War Veteran, Religion, AIDS Gay, AIDS Gay Religious Right, Homophobia, Religious Right, Picket Funerals, Discrimination, Conservative Christians, Gay Funerals, Phelps Funerals, Christians Homophobia, Aids, Christians Discrimination, Politics News
Charles Karel Bouley

A generation of gay men that died of AIDS in this country have been slapped today; they are citizens not entitled to the same rights as a dead Iraqi war veteran.

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Vasco's Story: Running to Stand Still

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 10.29.2007 | Living

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Trip to Africa, AIDS Orphans, Malawi, Children in Africa, Africa, Living News
Cathleen Falsani

After about three weeks of keeping my head and heart in check while traveling through east Africa, I did exactly what they said not to do. I fell in love.

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Sensual Fusion

Yvonne Fulbright and Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 10.26.2007 | Living

Read More: Hpv, Stds, Sex Taboos, Healthy Sexuality, Anal Sex, Taboos, Oral Sex, Hiv, Cdc, Rectal Cancer, Sexuality, Sex Education, HIV/AIDS, Sex, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Cancer, Cultural Taboos, Sex Advice, Living News
Yvonne Fulbright and Danielle Cavallucci

It's time to address the issue and teach people that anal sex is every bit as risky as oral and other forms of sex play.

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