Federal agency to hold HIV/AIDS town hall in Seattle
Seattle Times - Wed Dec 9, 3:10 am ETTop federal officials in charge of drafting a comprehensive national strategy for combating HIV/AIDS will be in Seattle Wednesday for a community town hall.
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Raising AIDSawareness witha cup of chili
Morning Times - Tue Dec 8, 1:29 am ETSAYRE — Only in its second year, the Guthrie HIV/AIDS Support Network’s Annual Chili Cook-off really took off this year, drawing several more entries to the contest and many, many more attendees to sample the results.
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BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS lauds US Health Organization
EurekAlert! - Wed Dec 2, 9:35 am ET( University of British Columbia ) Dr. Julio Montaner, director, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, and president, International AIDS Society, congratulated Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health, for taking a leadership role in the evaluation of the "Seek and Treat" strategy originally developed at the BC-CfE.
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Video: Meth Use
San Diego 6 - Wed Dec 9, 2:25 am ETUC San Diego's School of Medicine was awarded a $17 million grant to study the link between methamphetamine use and HIV/AIDS. 12/8/09
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Flint native Kathleen Phifer returns to promote book on living with HIV/AIDS
The Flint Journal - Wed Dec 2, 6:03 pm ETFLINT,Michigan — When she was diagnosed with HIV-AIDS in 1986, Kathleen Phifer couldn’t find a book that helped her understand what she was going through. Twenty-three years later, she’s written it herself. The former Flint resident, who now lives in Phoenix,...
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Live Nation Will Donate A Portion Of Each Ticket Sold Today In The U.S. To Fight AIDS
antiMUSIC - Sat Dec 5, 2:54 am ETA top story from this week. Today for World AIDS Day Live Nation will donate a portion of every ticket sold to its concerts in the United States to fight HIV/AIDS.
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Cells may someday zero in on HIV
Los Angeles Daily News - Tue Dec 8, 3:17 am ETResearchers say they can demonstrate that human blood stem cells can be engineered to form an army of killer cells that target the human immunodeficiency virus.
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Pennsylvania Department of Health Stresses Importance of HIV Testing in Recognition of World AIDS Day
PR Newswire via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 30, 12:17 pm ETHARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In recognition of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, Department of Health Secretary Everette James today reminded Pennsylvanians to be tested regularly for HIV – the virus that causes AIDS.
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Medicare Expands List of Covered Preventive Services to Include HIV Screening Tests
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Tue Dec 8, 2:17 pm ETWASHINGTON----The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced its final decision to cover Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection screening for Medicare beneficiaries who are at increased risk for the infection, including women who are pregnant and Medicare beneficiaries of any age who voluntarily request the service.
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County residents talk about their experiences living with HIV, AIDS
Ventura County Star - Wed Dec 2, 11:02 am ETVentura County residents who have experienced firsthand the devastating effects of HIV and AIDS spoke about their experiences Tuesday evening at an event in Thousand Oaks marking World AIDS Day.A mother whose son died of AIDS and three men living with AIDS shared their stories before a small gathering at the Lundring Events Center at California Lutheran University. Patricia Navarro, 65, of Simi ...
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To test or not to test, there is no question
Daily Sparks Tribune - Mon Dec 7, 3:13 pm ETSUN VALLEY — Andrea Katz has been clean and sober for 21 years, almost as long as she has had AIDS. "HIV made me decide that I either had to fight the disease or give into addiction," Katz said.
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Not-So-Safe Sex
Forbes - 38 minutes agoHow mandating condoms in adult films will put the industry more at risk.
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WORLD LENS: WEEK OF NOVEMBER 30
BET.com - Mon Dec 7, 7:23 pm ETSouth Africa’s President Jacob Zuma addresses a crowd on World AIDS Day in Pretoria. The leader announced that his nation will treat all HIV-positive babies and expand treatment and testing for everyone.
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WCup legacy to help Africa's fight against AIDS
Sports Illustrated - Sat Dec 5, 11:34 am ETCAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -- FIFA President Sepp Blatter hopes Africa's first World Cup will leave a lasting legacy that will help win the fight against HIV.
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World AIDS week lecture on HIV problems in Kazakhstan
The Daily Campus - Fri Dec 4, 1:00 am ETThe CHIP Lecture Series continued yesterday at the Ryan Refectory with a presentation on HIV among drug users in Kazakhstan by guest speaker Professor Nabilla El-Bassel of Columbia University. The presentation was an account of El-Bassel's research on the HIV epidemic in central Asia with a focus on starting wellness programs within Kazakhstan.
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Clergy to honor AIDS victims with interfaith service
The Advocate - Sat Dec 5, 1:21 am ETBaton Rouge pastors are joining forces again to highlight awareness of the high rate of HIV/AIDS in Baton Rouge and fight the stigma of the disease. An interfaith memorial service to remember those who have died of AIDS will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, on the levee across from the River Center.
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Some 3,500 Black Women In Chicago Have HIV/AIDS
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AIDS protest in China ends in tears
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Uganda memory books tell of stark AIDS truths
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Who to blame for AIDS crisis in S.Africa?
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AIDS still an acute epidemic in America's capital
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Kenya: "Men of the blood" come clean (AEGiS)
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Kenya: Meeting Muslim leaders halfway on HIV education (AEGiS.org)
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