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Empower Advocacy

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Canadian AIDS

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China reports leap in new HIV/AIDS cases (Reuters)

by (author unknown), Yahoo! News: AIDS/HIV

Reuters - China reported 18,543 new cases of HIV/AIDS in the first half of this year, state media said, near the number for the whole of 2006....

add a comment | Sep 09, 2007    


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Dispel the Stigma

AIDS mobilization kits

Global Health Council

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AIDS victims 'buried alive' in PNG (AFP)

by (author unknown), Yahoo! News: AIDS/HIV

AFP - Some AIDS victims are being buried alive in Papua New Guinea by relatives who cannot look after them and fear becoming infected themselves, a health worker said Monday....

add a comment | Aug 27, 2007    


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Reduce HIV Risk

Distribute 250 condoms

HIV/AIDS Alliance

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Sex now primary cause of China HIV spread - report

by (author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk

Source: Reuters BEIJING, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Unsafe sex has overtaken intravenous drug use as the primary cause of new HIV infections in China, suggesting that AIDS is spreading from high-risk groups to the general ...

add a comment | Aug 20, 2007    


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Give New Hope

5 teens with AIDS

International Relief

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FDA clears kids’ AIDS pill for relief program

by (author unknown), MSNBC.com: AIDS

A three-in-one AIDS pill for children was cleared on Monday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in a global U.S. AIDS relief program....

add a comment | Aug 13, 2007    


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Treat Deaf AIDS

One month of medicine

Deaf Connection

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Selzentry Approved for HIV (HealthDay)

by , Yahoo! News: AIDS/HIV

HealthDay - MONDAY, Aug. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Pfizer's Selzentry (maraviroc), an oral medication to treat the virus that causes AIDS, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the company said Monday....

1 comment | Aug 07, 2007    

   


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What's Next for the HIV Vaccine? (Time.com)

by (author unknown), Yahoo! News: AIDS/HIV

Time.com - A large government trial of the most promising HIV vaccine candidate to date has been canceled. Does that leave any hope for prevention?...

add a comment | Jul 19, 2008    


HEALTH: Activists Hail Senate Approval of Major AIDS Bill

by Jim Lobe , IPS Inter Press Service - HIV/AIDS

WASHINGTON, Jul 17 (IPS) - AIDS and global health activists are hailing Wednesday's approval by the U.S. Senate of an unprecedented five-year, 48-billion-dollar bill to fight AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis overseas, particularly in Africa....

add a comment | Jul 18, 2008    


GLOBAL: Is AIDS still an emergency?

by (author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk

Source: IRIN The rate of new HIV infections, which has fuelled the global HIV/AIDS epidemic since the 1980s, has peaked throughout the world and is now declining....

add a comment | Jul 18, 2008    


GLOBAL: ARVs extending life, but not improving it

by (author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk

Source: IRIN HIV-positive people are living longer on antiretroviral (ARV) medication, but many of them remain poor and hungry, highlighting the need to create incomes for them, says a new report....

add a comment | Jul 18, 2008    


Genetic Variant Raises HIV Risk (Time.com)

by (author unknown), Yahoo! News: AIDS/HIV

Time.com - Researchers discover a genetic variant found almost exclusively in people of African descent that may increase the chances of developing AIDS...

add a comment | Jul 18, 2008    


US scientists scrap major AIDS vaccine test (AFP)

by (author unknown), Yahoo! News: AIDS/HIV

AFP - US scientists have scrapped plans for a large trial of a HIV vaccine due to concerns about its effectiveness, the government's medical research agency said....

add a comment | Jul 18, 2008    


Cameroon refugee on trial in Poland for infecting women with HIV (AFP)

by (author unknown), Yahoo! News: AIDS/HIV

AFP - A Cameroonian poet and activist living in Poland as a refugee since 1999 went on trial Friday in Warsaw charged with having "knowingly infected" 11 women with the HIV virus, his lawyer said....

add a comment | Jul 18, 2008    


US activists praise Senate for lifting HIV travel ban (AFP)

by (author unknown), Yahoo! News: AIDS/HIV

AFP - Gay advocates and commentators have hailed a vote by US senators to repeal a travel ban on HIV-positive visitors or immigrants to the United States....

add a comment | Jul 18, 2008    


Genetic Variant Raises HIV Risk (Time.com)

by (author unknown), Yahoo! News: AIDS/HIV

Time.com - Researchers discover a genetic variant found almost exclusively in people of African descent that may increase the chances of developing AIDS...

add a comment | Jul 18, 2008    


U.S. drops trial of one AIDS vaccine

by (author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk

Source: Reuters By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON, July 17 (Reuters) - U.S. AIDS researchers are dropping plans to test one experimental vaccine in people, saying the high-profile failure of a ...

add a comment | Jul 17, 2008