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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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First HIV Vaccine Helps Prevent AIDS Infection

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE and MICHAEL CASEY | Posted 09.24.2009 | 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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Report from Rio: Men and Boys in Gender Equality

Pedro C. Moreno | Posted 05.02.2009 | World

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Pedro C. Moreno

What is striking about this meeting is the number of men involved -- accounting for at least half the attendants. A far cry compared to other gatherings on women.

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Pope's Condom Statement Gets Mixed Reviews

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.18.2009 | World

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Pope Benedict's statement yesterday that condoms are not the solution to the AIDS crisis in Africa elicited strong reactions from both sides of the po...

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Obama Asks Abstinence-Only AIDS Coodinator to Stay

Jodi Jacobson | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

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
Jodi Jacobson

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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