At last, a lift on HIV/AIDS travel ban | © 2009 Longmont Times-Call
The Longmont Times-Call - Mon Nov 9, 8:20 am ETThe United States finally has lifted a symbolically discriminatory mark on those with HIV/AIDS.
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County's HIV/AIDS rate prompts visit
Memphis Commercial Appeal - Thu Nov 5, 12:04 am ETOne of the highest-ranking health officials in President Barack Obama's administration picked Memphis as the starting point for nationwide tour Wednesday, but the city could hardly consider it an honor. Dr. Howard K. Koh, assistant secretary for health in the Department of Health and Human Services, was in Memphis largely because of the city's soaring rate of HIV/AIDS infection. Although it ...
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Human Rights Watch slams Uganda AIDS bill
AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 6, 12:03 pm ETHuman Rights Watch on Friday criticised Uganda's HIV/AIDS bill, some of whose clauses call for mandatory testing of pregnant women, sex offenders and victims, and disclosure of HIV status.
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Uganda Bill Threatens Progress on HIV/AIDS
Kansas City InfoZine - Fri Nov 6, 5:53 am ETProposed Law Impedes Effective HIV Response, Violates Rights
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Anglo Coal May Face Strike if Demands Aren’t Met, Union Says
Bloomberg - Mon Nov 9, 1:18 am ETNov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Anglo Coal, the coal-mining unit of Anglo American Plc, may face a strike if it doesn’t meet demands from miners over child-care facilities, funeral cover and the way workers are tested for the HIV virus that causes AIDS.
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Blaming it on the Alcohol Can Have Life-Altering Consequences
Black Voices - Mon Nov 9, 2:50 pm ETFiled under: Sexual Health , HIV/AIDS , Men's Health , Mental Health , Disease Prevention It's a warm summer night. A young man sits on the corner of Broadway and 12th Street in downtown Oakland sipping from a bottle of Hennessey. Bored and looking for a sexual fling with no strings attached, the young man dials up The Biosphere, a popular social networking tool that anyone with access to a ...
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Monterey County HIV, AIDS groups to merge
The Salinas Californian - Wed Nov 4, 8:06 am ETTwo of Monterey County's HIV/AIDS awareness groups will soon become one.
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School Preview Night Planned for Tuesday
The Ponca City News - Mon Nov 9, 11:31 am ETThe Ponca City Alternative School has scheduled abstinence and HIV/AIDS education classes to be presented by the school nurse consultant. A parent preview night has been set for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Alternative School, 1615 North Seventh Street.
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ZAMBIA: New infections on the rise
IRIN - Mon Nov 9, 10:45 am ETLUSAKA, 9 November 2009 (IRIN) - An estimated 82,700 Zambians will become newly infected with HIV in 2009, up from just over 70,000 in 2007, according to new figures from the National AIDS Council.
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Shrinking AIDS funding threatens gains: aid group
AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 5, 3:26 pm ETWaning international donor support for the fight against AIDS is a threat to a decade of progress in HIV treatment, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned on Thursday.
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UAB awarded $11.5 million to explore ways to test youth for HIV, link them to care
EurekAlert! - Fri Nov 6, 10:35 am ET( University of Alabama at Birmingham ) Two new grants are for leadership and coordination of the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Intervention (ATN), a research network in the United States and Puerto Rico working to curb the epidemic through prevention, testing and treatment for youth ages 12 to 24. Projections show at least one-half of all new HIV infections each year worldwide ...
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HIV therapy halts brain disease
Chicago Sun-Times - Fri Nov 6, 5:12 am ETWASHINGTON -- French scientists have mixed gene therapy and bone marrow transplants in two boys to seemingly halt a brain disease that can kill by adolescence. The surprise ingredient: They disabled the HIV virus so it couldn't cause AIDS, and then used it to carry in the healthy new gene. The experiment marks the first time researchers have tried that step in people -- and the first ...
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In Indiana, blacks continue to be at higher risk for HIV
The Indianapolis Star - Fri Nov 6, 7:05 am ETBlacks have suffered disproportionately from HIV/AIDS for a long time, and lately the gap has widened. Blacks represent less than 10 percent of the state's population. But last year in Indiana, African-Americans accounted for more than four in every 10 new cases of the disease, compared with about three in 10 the year before.
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Specialists in hearing, HIV come together to study AIDS patients
EurekAlert! - Tue Nov 3, 10:06 am ET( University of Rochester Medical Center ) Specialists in HIV and in hearing at the University of Rochester Medical Center are teaming up to measure the hearing of people with AIDS.
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HIV & AIDS Resources Under One Roof
WROC Rochester - Thu Nov 5, 7:20 pm ETThis is the new home for AIDS Rochester and AIDS Community Health Center. They're moved in, and unpacking, close to a launch as one new group.
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Lifted travel ban a step forward in HIV/AIDS
Delta Democrat Times - Tue Nov 3, 11:40 am ETGREENVILLE — President Obama’s order lifting the ban on people infected with HIV from entering the country could lead to a better understanding of the illness and more tolerance towards those who suffer from it, according to Mississippi HIV/AIDS advocates.
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