Aids

Scientists: Economic Crisis Will Deal Blow To AIDS Vaccine Prospects

AP | CLARE NULLIS | Posted 10.14.2008 | Home

Read More: Aids, AIDS Vaccine, Wall Street, Wall St Crisis, Wall St Crisis Aids Vaccine, Economic Crisis Aids Vaccine, Financial Crisis Aids Vaccine, Home News

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The global economic turmoil is likely to take its toll on AIDS research funding and add to the problems plaguing the s...

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Scientists Trace The Origin Of AIDS Virus

AP | MALCOLM RITTER | Posted 10.01.2008 | Home

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NEW YORK — The AIDS virus has been circulating among people for about 100 years, decades longer than scientists had thought, a new study suggest...

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Univeral Health Care and the New Fiscal Meltdown -- Run to the Border for Health Care

Thomas DeLorenzo | Posted 09.29.2008 | Living

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Universal Health Care, Gay, 2008 Election, Health Care, Aids, Health, Living News
Thomas DeLorenzo

I got my own bailout recently when my blood work came back. I am very, very elated that my T cell count is 852, which for the first time since I started counting these things is now in the "normal" range.

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Voters to Decide Death with Dignity in Washington State

Booth Gardner | Posted 09.22.2008 | Home

Read More: Catholic Church, Ballot Initiatives, Election 08, Assisted Suicide, Ballot Initiative, Cancer, General Election, Washington State, Autonomy, Pro-Choice, Aids, Choice, Death With Dignity, Oregon, Home News

Life is a series of decisions, choices that we make every day, and they may be simple and easy or difficult and momentous. The decision that a cancer ...

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Bring the Assault Weapons Ban Back Into Presidential Politics

Dan Brown | Posted 09.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Second Amendment, Bukhari Washington, National Rifle Association, Cory Booker, Samuel G. Freedman, Newark, Assault Weapons, Christ the King, New York Times, Gun Control, AK-47, Aids, Barack Obama, Politics News
Dan Brown

Tonight, Barack Obama is attending a fundraiser in Newark, New Jersey. I truly hope he uses this opportunity to speak about Bukhari Washington and the...

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Pot Versus 'The Superbug'

Paul Armentano | Posted 08.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Cannabinoids, Mrsa, Cannabis, Staph Infection, Marijuana, Health, Dea, Thc, Msm, Medical Marijuana, Pot, Aids, Living News
Paul Armentano

According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, colloquially known as MRSA or 'the s...

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Islam, Condoms and AIDS

Pius Kamau | Posted 08.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Islam, Condoms, Aids, Kenya, Politics News
Pius Kamau

Many Africans in north east Kenya will die from HIV/AIDs because of misguided Imams whose ignorance disqualify them from making any health related decisions.

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Universal Healthcare and the 2008 Election

Thomas DeLorenzo | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Health, Universal Healthcare, Aids, Hiv, HIV/AIDS Africa, Healthcare, Politics News
Thomas DeLorenzo

We need to get back to basics and take care of the needs of people living with HIV/AIDS right here in this country first.

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Don't Leave Sex Out of Saddleback

Rev. Debra Haffner | Posted 08.14.2008 | Living

Read More: Aids, LGBT Rights, Lgbt, Gay Rights, LGBT Issues, Living News
Rev. Debra Haffner

The question remains as to whether those of us who advocate for sexual and reproductive justice will be included at Saddleback Church's upcoming "Civil Forum."

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AIDS Amnesia in America

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Domestic Aids Epidemic, Aids Deaths Nationally, Health, Annual Aids Infections, Annual Aids Deaths, Aids, Cdc Aids Numbers, Politics News
Susan Blumenthal, M.D.

Last week's report of a higher infection rate in America than previously estimated should serve as a wake-up call from the AIDS amnesia surrounding the domestic epidemic in recent years.

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Annie Lennox Raises Her Voice

Marianne Schnall | Posted 08.12.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Women, Nelson Mandela, Hiv, International AIDS Conference, Annie Lennox, Oxfam, Aids, Peace, Feminism, Health, Africa, South Africa, Entertainment News
Marianne Schnall

In this exclusive interview from the International AIDS Conference, Annie Lennox talks about the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the status of women, her SING campaign, and staying sane in a world gone mad.

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Looking Past the Numbers

Rashad Robinson | Posted 08.12.2008 | Media

Read More: Aids, HIV/AIDS, Hiv, Glaad, Media, Media News
Rashad Robinson

Things have changed quite a bit when it comes to media coverage of HIV and AIDS since 1985, but there's still a lack of representation in media coverage of the impact of HIV and AIDS on real people.

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CDC: 250,000 Americans Don't Know They're HIV-Positive

McClatchy | Federica Narancio | Posted 08.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Americans Hiv Percentage, America Aids, America Hiv, Americans Unknown Hiv, Aids, Hiv, Living News

Some 250,000 Americans are HIV positive but unaware of it, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released Thursday, and most...

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Number Of New HIV Infections In US Much Higher Than Government Reported, Study Finds

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Aids, Cdc, Hiv, Hiv Infections, Politics News

ATLANTA — The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health offic...

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AIDS in Asia: An Emerging Frontier in the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 07.31.2008 | Living

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Susan Blumenthal, M.D.

With roughly sixty percent of the world's estimated 6.7 billion people living in Asia, even a small percentage of infected people can make Asia the next flashpoint for the global AIDS epidemic.

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Condomizing Jesse Helms' House

Sean Strub | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Condom, HIV/AIDS, Heritage Foundation, Condom on House, Treatment Action Group, Sean Strub, Poz. Peter Staley, Rebecca Norton Dunlop, Jesse Helms, ACT UP, Aids, David Geffen, Becky Norton Dunlop, Stephen Gendin, Tag, Politics News
Sean Strub

We pulled up in front of Helms's house and jumped out of the truck like jackrabbits, racing to unload the ladders, blowers, generator and, of course, the condom.

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In Response to the ABC Nightline Special on Sex Trade in Haiti

Arthur Fournier | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Orphanages, HIV/AIDS, Poverty, Dan Harris, Health, Freedom, Haiti, Aids, Sexual Slavery, Politics News
Arthur Fournier

Exploitation of vulnerable people has nothing to do with ethnicity or culture and everything to do with poverty and the survival choices poor people are forced to make.

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Obama's Coming Battle With Conscience

Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Foster Care, Conscience Exceptions, Faith-Based Initiatives, Homosexual Parents, Prescription Drugs, Safe Sex, Hospitals, Condoms, Aids, Barack Obama, Adoption, Politics News
Angela Bonavoglia

Faith-based institutions have done an enormous amount to improve people's lives, but determining how to support that work in a country that values the separation of church and state is no easy matter.

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Gender Apartheid

Amy Coen | Posted 06.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Corruption, Foreign Aid, Women's Rights, Fgm, Apartheid, Foreign Assistance, Ethiopia, Violation, Prenatal, Conflict, Prevention, Africa, Aids, Racism, Female, Development, Developing Countries, Public Health, Hiv, Gender, Ngo, Contraceptives, Female Genital Mutilation, Health, Sex, Health Programs, Hospitals, Communities, Sexual Education, Condoms, Living News
Amy Coen

Boge explained her biggest challenge decades earlier was to convince the first mother that her 'uncut' daughter would have a good life; she would be an acceptable wife, bear children and be healthy.

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Lepers, AIDS Patients Not Welcome in Beijing

USA Today | Posted 06.21.2008 | Home

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Olympics, Beijing, Beijing Olympics, China, Aids, Leprosy, 2008 Beijing Olympics, Home News

China is putting out the welcome mat for foreign tourists during the Olympics -- as long as they're not sick. Kyodo News reports that Beijing plans t...

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Madonna: "I Am Because We Are"

Karin Badt | Posted 06.17.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Malawi, Cannes Film Festival 2008, Madonna Malawi, Madonna, Aids, Malawi Aids, Cannes Film Festival, I Am Because We Are, Entertainment News
Karin Badt

Alerting audiences to the painful problems in Malawi is an exceptionally good thing, but Madonna's new film is weak, largely due to Madonna's over-the-top urge to make this a film of hope.

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America's HIV Rate Increases By 25 Percent After Better Counting

Reuters | Daniel Bases | Posted 06.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Better Counting Hiv Rates, HIV/AIDS, US Hiv Rates, Aids, Hiv, Hiv Rates Up, Living News

Researchers have been undercounting new cases of HIV infection in the United States, meaning the rate is probably 25 percent higher at 50,000 people p...

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Photo project lets Africa AIDS victims show their own story

AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 06.10.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Aids, AIDS Photo Project, Neal Baer, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — In one photograph, a group of boys in possession of a much-used soccer ball mug comically for the camera, arms and legs going ever...

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New HIV Infections 'Far And Away' Outpacing Drug Treatment: UN

AP | JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 06.09.2008 | Home

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UNITED NATIONS — Despite a stepped up global battle against AIDS, the numbers of people newly infected with HIV are far and away outpacing the n...

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The Food We Eat, The Sex We Have - What's A Country To Do?

Amy Coen | Posted 06.06.2008 | Living

Read More: Condoms, Hiv, Contraceptives, Diabetes, Aids, Mexico, Women's Rights, Developing Countries, Policy, Living News
Amy Coen

I've been in Mexico for almost a week. There's a growing behavior change challenge here: persuading Mexicans to change the way they eat and the way they have sex.

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