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AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 21, 12:47 am ET
Dwindling funding for HIV/AIDS threatens to leave an estimated 10 million infected people without treatment in the developing world, making it one of 2009's Top 10 humanitarian crises, according to Doctors Without Borders.
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redOrbit - Wed Dec 23, 11:10 am ET
Expanding Michigan State University's global health outreach, a team of researchers is working in the Dominican Republic to establish a model for HIV/AIDS care that can be exported to other resource-limited countries.The team, led by Reza Nassiri, the director of MSU's Institute of International Health, is treating patients and educating doctors at the Santo Domingo HIV/AIDS clinic."By focusing ...
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The Star-Ledger - Sun Dec 20, 7:12 am ET
NEWARK -- Safe sex and sanitary drug use are not subjects most people expect to hear about in church, but in Newark, where one in 47 people have HIV/AIDS, one woman is urging local pastors to put aside their discomfort...
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KERA North Texas - Wed Dec 23, 12:14 am ET
Texas has ordered changes to HIV-testing requirements for pregnant women, effective January 1st. The goal is stop the AIDS-causing disease from infecting newborns. KERA's Bill Zeeble exlains.
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EurekAlert! - Tue Dec 22, 10:06 am ET
( Michigan State University ) Expanding Michigan State University's global health outreach, a team of researchers is working in the Dominican Republic to establish a model for HIV/AIDS care that can be exported to other resource-limited countries.The team, led by Reza Nassiri, the director of MSU's Institute of International Health, is treating patients and educating doctors at the Santo Domingo ...
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La Jolla Light - Tue Dec 22, 6:26 pm ET
Portions of the AIDS Memorial Quilt that were on display emerged from San Diego organizations and individuals as they have responded to the AIDS crisis from the early years of the epidemic through the present day. By UCSD UCSD honored World AIDS Day on Dec. 1 with several events dedicated to showing the impact of HIV/AIDS and how it has affected so many people and taken so many lives. The ...
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The Huffington Post - Fri Dec 18, 6:09 pm ET
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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People Magazine - Wed Dec 23, 6:37 am ET
• Let the holiday parties begin! Jake Gyllenhaal braved the snowy New York City weather for a guys' night out at the Smyth Tribeca hotel, where Justin Theroux, Mark Ronson and Scott Campbell were throwing a bash to benefit God's Love We Deliver, an HIV/AIDS charity. The single actor chatted the night away with Matt Dillon and they seemed like they were having a great time, a source says. Ronson ...
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WSIL 3 Southern Illinois - Mon Dec 21, 5:07 am ET
CARBONDALE-The Southern Illinois AIDS Christmas Project is in need of help this year. Each year, the group provides presents and food to more than 150 families impacted by HIV and AIDS in the 19 southern-most counties of Illinois.
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CommonDreams.org - Wed Dec 23, 10:08 am ET
by Mark Tran The withholding of government aid to trapped civilians in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Sudan contributed to the worst humanitarian emergencies of 2009, a medical group said today. Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) also pointed to a fall in funding for the treatment of diseases such as sleeping sickness and HIV/Aids as part of its annual list of worst humanitarian crises for the past year ...
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YourNabe.com - Wed Dec 23, 2:39 am ET
News that a HIV/AIDS homeless housing provider could set up shop smack dab in the middle of Wakefield’s shopping corridor has sent residents and business owners into a tizzy. Community Board 12 will host a meeting between Praxis Housing Initiatives and anxious neighbors on Thursday, January 7 to discuss the future of 4339 White Plains Road, a vacant lot between E. 236th and E. 237th streets ...
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ABC 7 Chicago - Tue Dec 22, 7:32 pm ET
A North Side bakery helps people who are trying to put their lives back together and donates half of its profits to HIV/AIDS patients.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 21, 4:43 pm ET
Governments around the world are blocking aid to trapped populations and people with HIV/AIDS are being turned away from health clinics because funding is lagging, Doctors Without Borders said in a bleak report outlining the world's 10 worst humanitarian crises.
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Plattsburgh Press Republican - Sun Dec 20, 5:52 am ET
PLATTSBURGH — Humanity's battle against HIV has taken many twists and turns over the past several decades. Although science has yet to find a cure for this dreaded infection, medicine has helped improve a person's odds against developing full-blown AIDS and facing a likely death sentence.
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New America Media - Thu Dec 17, 1:10 pm ET
Dennis De Leon, one of the most recognized national leaders in the fight against HIV/AIDS, died Monday in Manhattan at the age of 61, reports El Diario/La Prensa.