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HIV/AIDS curriculum preview set in Richland

Tri-City Herald - Tue Nov 10, 12:05 pm ET

Parents of fifth-graders in the Richland School District may preview HIV/AIDS prevention and gr

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PiCASO struggles to survive amid funding cuts
The Daily Reflector - Sat Nov 7, 11:55 pm ET
Leaders of an 18-year-old organization dedicated to HIV/AIDS prevention and patient assistance are contemplating closing in the face of a budget shortfall greater than 30 percent.
Young girl is 200,000th person to assemble AIDS, HIV care kit
Lodi News-Sentinel - Fri Nov 6, 5:41 am ET
Ashlee Brink is a precocious 7-year-old who loves to talk and help her community.
Health Highlights: Nov. 10, 2009
Forbes - 2 hours 33 minutes ago
Basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is being treated for chronic myeloid leukemia and has been given an encouraging prognosis.
GLOBAL: AIDS funding at "dangerous turning point"
IRIN - Thu Nov 5, 11:45 am ET
JOHANNESBURG, 5 November 2009 (IRIN) - Wavering international support for HIV/AIDS efforts is resulting in funding shortfalls that could wipe out a decade of progress in rolling out AIDS treatment, the international medical and humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has warned.
Remember when Magic shocked the world?
MSNBC - Sun Nov 8, 3:04 am ET
On Nov. 7, 1991, Magic Johnson announced he had contracted the virus that causes AIDS and would be retiring from the NBA. Since then he has become a face to the disease, and has shown how well one can live with HIV if caught early.
Health officials urge minorities to be tested for AIDS
Local 12 Cincinnati - Thu Nov 5, 10:45 am ET
State officials are urging black residents and other minorities to learn more about HIV and AIDS and get tested for the virus.
Pharmasset to Present at Lazard Capital Markets Healthcare Conference
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Mon Nov 9, 4:00 pm ET
PRINCETON, N.J., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pharmasset, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRUS - News ) announces management will present at the Sixth Annual Lazard Capital Markets Healthcare Conference. The conference will be held at the St Regis Hotel in New York City (November 17-19, 2009). Schaefer Price, Pharmasset's President and Chief Executive Officer, will provide an overview of the company on ...
Obama to lift HIV/AIDS travel ban
UPI - Fri Oct 30, 2:03 pm ET
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- The ban on HIV/AIDS-infected visitors and immigrants entering the United States will be repealed after the New Year, President Barack Obama announced Friday.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dq/technica.htm
Immigration Portal - Wed Nov 4, 1:48 pm ET
[Federal Register: November 2, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 210)] [Rules and Regulations] [Page 56547-56562] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr02no09-6] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease ...
AIDS Patients Now Living Longer, But Aging Faster
NPR - Tue Nov 10, 8:38 am ET
Before 1996, when new AIDS drugs were introduced, life expectancy was 18 months post-diagnosis. Now, AIDS patients regularly live for decades with the disease. But as these patients live longer, unanticipated side effects — caused by the disease itself, medications to treat it or both — introduce a new set of maladies.
Medecins Sans Frontieres pleads for more AIDS funding, saying other crises have hurt donations
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Thu Nov 5, 6:47 am ET
JOHANNESBURG - A medical aid group says funding for AIDS is threatened, and that could set back "dramatic" progress in decreasing HIV illness and death.
Health Buzz: AIDS Is World’s Top Killer of Younger Women and Other Health News
US News & World Report - 1 hour 53 minutes ago
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Abdul-Jabbar encouraged despite leukemia diagnosis
USA Today - 15 minutes ago
Basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is being treated for a rare form of leukemia, and he said his prognosis is encouraging. The NBA's all-time leading scorer was diagnosed last December with chronic myeloid leukemia, he told The Associated Press on Monday.
Don't back-track now on AIDS, MSF warns Western donors
EARTHtimes.org - Thu Nov 5, 6:35 am ET
Johannesburg - Cutting funding for HIV/AIDS treatment would condemn millions of poor people to death, international medical NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres said Thursday, amid signs of Western governments starting to back-track on their commitments. Two...
Battle of the Ban: Obama takes final steps to lift decades-old HIV travel ban by early 2010
Metro Weekly - Thu Nov 5, 3:14 am ET
Gauge: In August of 2008, Ron MacInnis, a gay Petworth resident working in HIV policy and prevention, grabbed headlines speaking at the 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. "It's blatantly discriminatory to single out people with HIV," MacInnis told conference attendees, regarding the U.S. HIV travel ban. "It's stupid and ridiculous. These restrictions are really impeding our ...