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NEWS ABOUT: HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS stories: 61 news summaries

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 Pope: Condoms Make 
 AIDS Crisis Worse 

On visit to Africa, pope makes first statement on their use

Mar 17, 09 8:09 AM CDT
(AP) - Condoms are not the answer to Africa's fight against AIDS, and in fact exacerbate the epidemic, Pope Benedict said at the start of a 7-day visit to the continent today. It's the first explicit statement about condoms from the pontiff, who has said that the Roman Catholic Church is at... More »

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Africa • Pope Benedict XVI • AIDS • Catholic Church • HIV • condom • HIV/AIDS • AIDS epidemic



 DC's AIDS/HIV 
 Rate Soars 


Proportion higher than in West Africa: official

Mar 15, 09 7:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - The soaring 3% HIV/AIDS rate in Washington, DC, is triple the proportion that qualifies as a “generalized and severe epidemic,” according to a new report. That means some 15,120 people in the city over the age of 12 are infected, the Washington Post reports. Such rates are... More »

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AIDS • HIV • HIV/AIDS • AIDS epidemic

Russia Starts
to Admit Heroin Problem

Some blame West's failures in Afghanistan; others see bad policy

Mar 11, 09 10:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - With an estimated 2 million drug addicts in Russia—about one in 50 adults—the nation is finally admitting it has a problem. One ally of PM Vladimir Putin faults the West’s anti-terror efforts in nearby Afghanistan for allowing poppy cultivation to bloom; others say Russia’s sweep-it-under-the-rug policies... More »

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Afghanistan • Russia • War on Terror • rehab • heroin • Bill Maher • HIV/AIDS • drug addicts • methadone • Bill Maher Grid

 UK Paid for Truck That 
 Killed Tsvangirai's Wife 

Party plans independent investigation into crash

Mar 8, 09 5:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - The truck that killed the wife of Zimbabwe's prime minister was funded by Britain and registered with US officials in Harare, the Times of London reports. The driver, who said he had dozed off, was transporting anti-HIV drugs when he crashed into a vehicle carrying Morgan Tsvangirai and his wife.... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • aid • car crash • assassination attempt • HIV/AIDS • traffic accident

(Newser) - Police have arrested a British man for allegedly keeping his HIV status secret while having unprotected sex with women, the BBC reports. Cops in Cornwall and Devon captured the suspect after multiple complaints from women who say they learned of his infection after sleeping with him. The man, 39, can... More »

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crime • England • sex • STD • Britain • HIV/AIDS • Devon • unprotected sex

 For Valentine's Day: E-Condoms 

NYC unveils safe sex Facebook page

Feb 12, 09 2:47 AM CST
(Newser) - New York is turning to social networking to promote safe sex, reports the New York Times. The city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has introduced—just in time for Valentine's Day—a Facebook page and Facebook application promoting condom use with "e-condoms." They're not actually condoms, but... More »

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New York City • HIV/AIDS • Valentine's Day • condoms • Dr. Monica Sweeney • e-condoms

Lawsuit Claims Alomar Exposed Girlfriend to HIV

Former Met knew he had virus, insisted upon unprotected sex, lawsuit claims

Feb 11, 09 12:20 PM CST
(Newser) - An ex-girlfriend has filed a shocking lawsuit against Roberto Alomar, claiming the baseball great knew he had AIDS yet insisted on having unprotected sex, the New York Daily News reports. Illya Dall is suing Alomar for $15 million in damages for exposing her and her children to the virus. She... More »

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MLB • AIDS • New York Mets • HIV • HIV/AIDS • baseball • Roberto Alomar

 Elton Blings Out iPod for AIDS 

Star sells limited-edition Nanos to raise money

Feb 2, 09 9:12 AM CST
(Newser) - For a mere $568, you can own Elton John’s blinged-out iPod Nano—and even better, your money will be donated to a good cause, the Sun reports. Sir Elton has designed an iPod bejeweled with more than 250 Swarovski crystals and loaded with the star’s greatest hits. A... More »

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Elton John • iPod • iPod Nano • charity • HIV/AIDS • bling • iPods

'Witch' Burned
Alive in Papua New Guinea

Girl said to spread AIDS; outbreak fuels such sorcery killings

Jan 7, 09 4:00 PM CST
(Newser) - A young woman accused of witchcraft was doused with gasoline and burned to death on a pyre of car tires in Papua New Guinea, reports the Telegraph. The girl, aged between 16 and 21, was accused of spreading AIDS to one of her murderers in an extra-marital affair. Black magic... More »

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women • Papua New Guinea • murder • HIV/AIDS • witchcraft • AIDS epidemic • black magic

OPINION

The World's Worst Humanitarian Crises

Civil war and displacement fuel tragedies across the globe: aid group

Dec 23, 08 4:42 PM CST
(Newser) - Aid organization Doctors Without Borders has released its annual list of the world's worst humanitarian crises. Here's a sample:
  • Somalia: Increased friction between insurgents and the government unleashed some of the worst violence in a decade. One in five children there dies before turning 5.
  • Congo: Hundreds of
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Zimbabwe • Pakistan • HIV • list • humanitarian crisis • Doctors Without Borders • HIV/AIDS • Congo • Best of 2008

 On World AIDS Day, a Call
for Sounder Science 

Stronger research would trump futile drug trials

Dec 1, 08 12:25 PM CST
(Newser) - Researchers are hopeful they can develop an AIDS vaccine despite the recent, high-profile failures of two clinical trials, Health Day reports. But progress must be built on solid science and convincing preliminary results in animals. “There have been a lot of calls for a return to basic science,”... More »

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AIDS • HIV • vaccine • medical research • AIDS vaccine • HIV/AIDS • World AIDS Day • human trials

Mbeki AIDS Denial Killed 365K in South Africa

Study blames Mbeki for keeping antiretrovirals from citizens

Nov 26, 08 6:54 AM CST
(Newser) - South Africa's failure to provide antiretroviral drugs to AIDS patients has cost 365,000 lives,  a new Harvard study finds. The report places the blame for the deaths with ousted president Thabo Mbeki, whose denial of AIDS' viral cause led Africa's richest country to ignore its sick citizens while... More »

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AIDS • HIV • South Africa • Thabo Mbeki • HIV/AIDS • AIDS epidemic • Kgalema Motlanthe

 Experts Call 
 for Earlier 
 HIV Treatment 

Treatment guidelines may be revised

Oct 27, 08 8:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - New research challenges one of the basic assumptions about treating HIV—that patients should begin treatment only when levels of a type of white blood cell fall below a certain mark. New studies show that patients treated under current guidelines are 70% more likely to die than those treated sooner.... More »

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treatment • HIV/AIDS • University of Washington-Seattle • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases • CD4 T-cells

50 High School Teens in
St. Louis Exposed to HIV

School sets up testing lab in gym after learning dozens may be infected

Oct 24, 08 7:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Health officials in a small town near St. Louis have set up an HIV testing clinic in a high school gym after an infected person said up to 50 students may have been exposed, reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. School officials won't say whether that person is a student or... More »

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high school • HIV • St. Louis • STD • HIV/AIDS • high school students

STD? Slap Your Ex With Lawsuit

Courts move toward holding people liable for infecting partner — even unknowingly

Oct 16, 08 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - California courts are deciding a civil dispute that could change first-date conversations. A woman is suing her ex-husband for allegedly giving her HIV, though he claims to not have known he was infected at the time, MSNBC writes. The case follows successful wins in Iowa and New York by plaintiffs... More »

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HPV • sex • sexual behavior • STD • relationship • civil lawsuits • HIV/AIDS

3 Virologists
Share Medicine
Nobel Prize

Discoverers of HIV, human papilloma virus win $1.4M award

Oct 6, 08 8:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Nobel Prize for medicine was awarded today to three scientists who discovered two of the world's deadliest sexually transmitted viruses. Half the prize goes to Harald zur Hausen, a German who discovered the human papilloma virus, which causes cervical cancer in women. The other half goes to Françoise... More »

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medicine • HPV • HIV • virus • Nobel Prize • HIV/AIDS

 HIV/AIDS May Be 100 Years Old 

Evidence of old strain discovered in Congo

Oct 2, 08 3:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - The HIV/AIDS epidemic exploded in the 1980s, but new research shows HIV was plaguing the human population in Africa for a century before that. Old collections of human tissue samples from the Congo have produced evidence of old strains of HIV that may have emerged in 1908, reports Nature. More »

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HIV • DNA • genome • University of Alabama • HIV/AIDS • Pasteur Institute • Congo • biopsy • Leopoldville

Analysis

 Mbeki Leaves 
 Mixed Legacy 

How aloof leader will be remembered

Sep 20, 08 4:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Thabo Mbeki could never be as beloved as Nelson Mandela, so he didn’t try, writes Mark Tran in the Guardian. Instead, Mbeki projected himself as a competent technocrat: cool, aloof, almost disdainful of popular opinion. He leaves behind a legacy as inscrutable as that persona, with clear... More »

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Zimbabwe • South Africa • Thabo Mbeki • HIV/AIDS • Poverty in South Africa • legacy

New HIV Study Shows Disease Accelerating

CDC finds 40% more cases than thought; blacks' rate alarming

Sep 12, 08 7:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new CDC study of Americans with HIV conducted with new technology shows that the virus is spreading faster than previously thought, reports the New York Times. In 2006, more than 56,000 were newly infected with the virus that causes AIDS—40% more than anticipated. The study also showed... More »

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AIDS • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • HIV • public health • infection • STD • HIV/AIDS • African-Americans • white people

Romans Left Conquered Peoples More Prone to HIV

Those in areas ruled by empire less likely to have key gene, scientists find

Sep 4, 08 6:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Roman conquest of Europe may explain why populations living in the former empire are more vulnerable to HIV, French researchers say. A genetic variant that protects against the AIDS-causing virus is less prevalent in former Roman colonies such as England, France, Greece, and Spain, though some argue that a... More »

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genetics • plague • global health • HIV/AIDS • genetic research • Roman Empire

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