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NEWS ABOUT: HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS stories: 61 news summaries

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 HIV Adoptions From 
 Abroad on Rise 

Ethiopia leads nations on finding US homes

Sep 2, 08 1:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - More US families are adopting HIV-infected children from overseas, primarily in Ethiopia, the AP reports. Stats from one international agency show 38 adoptions of infected Ethiopian children this year, up from 13 in 2007 and four in 2006. HIV adoptions have also increased in China, Ghana, Haiti, and Russia, say... More »

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Africa • HIV • Ethiopia • public health • HIV/AIDS • foreign adoptions

CDC Sharply Raises
Estimate of HIV Cases in US

New test indicates 40% more infected in US each year than reported

Aug 2, 08 1:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - A lot more people in the US have HIV than previously thought. A new CDC study suggests that the US has undercounted by about 15,000 cases a year for 15 years or so, the New York Times reports. That would add 225,000 cases to the current estimate... More »

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • epidemiology • HIV/AIDS • Federal government • scientific study • AIDS epidemic

AIDS Infection Rate Steady, But Deaths Decline

Better access to drugs, safe-sex efforts helping, UN report finds

Jul 29, 08 3:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Although global AIDS infection rates have remained constant, deaths from the disease dropped by 10% last year as more patients got access to drugs, the United Nations finds. The UN attributes the drop in deaths—from 2.7 million to 2 million—to better help for HIV-positive mothers, increased condom... More »

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United Nations • HIV/AIDS

OPINION

Stubborn Mbeki Denies  the Blood on Hands

From HIV to Zimbabwe, S. African's inaction has cost lives, says Cohen

Jul 3, 08 6:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Five years ago Roger Cohen interviewed Thabo Mbeki in the New York Times, and even then the South African president insisted that Zimbabwe will "get over" its conflicts. So as supposed mediator in Zimbabwe's deepening economic and humanitarian disaster, why has Mbeki still done nothing? An earlier act of... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • AIDS • HIV • South Africa • Thabo Mbeki • HIV/AIDS

 HIV Rate Soars 12%
 Among Young Gay Men 

Black gays hit by biggest jump in 'second wave' AIDS epidemic

Jun 27, 08 2:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - HIV infection rates are rising by 12% annually among young gay men aged 13 to 24—and even more among young black men, the Washington Post reports. That's 10 times higher than the overall gay community, possibly because younger men have “not been personally affected by AIDS in... More »

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African Americans • HIV • sex • HIV/AIDS • homosexual • survey • gays

City Plans to Test Every Bronx Adult
for HIV

Bid to tackle highest AIDS death rate in NY

Jun 26, 08 3:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - City officials aim to test every Bronx adult for HIV by 2011 under an ambitious initiative to tackle the high rate of AIDS deaths in the borough, the New York Times reports. The voluntary testing would become routine in emergency rooms and storefront clinics and would pare down consent... More »

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AIDS • New York • public health • Bronx • HIV/AIDS • AIDS prevention

OPINION

US Must
End Ban on HIV-Positive Immigrants

Andrew Sullivan uses own case as example

May 14, 08 6:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US is one of only 12 countries (including Sudan, Moldova and Libya) that flouts UN law by barring HIV-positive visitors or immigrants—and the restriction must end, writes Andrew Sullivan in the Washington Post. The HIV-positive Sullivan, a senior editor at Atlantic magazine, remains in the US only with... More »

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immigration • discrimination • Andrew Sullivan • HIV/AIDS • George W. Bush

Madonna's Gardener Directs Her AIDS Film

He caught her eye making 'amazing'
home movies

Apr 26, 08 7:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Madonna tapped a director whose work she knew well for her new documentary about AIDS orphans in Malawi, People reports. Nathan Rissman "was my gardener. He was my carpenter," she said. And his home videos of her kids "were amazing." More »

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film • Malawi • documentary • orphan • Madonna • HIV/AIDS • David Banda • Nathan Rissman

 Zimbabwe Opposition 
 Claims Victory 

Early pronouncement will be dealt with as a  'coup'

Mar 30, 08 6:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Zimbabwe opposition is claiming victory in national elections to unseat long-time leader Robert Mugabe—but government authorities quickly warned that premature pronouncements would be dealt with harshly. "It is called a coup d'etat and we all know how coups are handled," warned a government spokesman. Authorities plan... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Amnesty International • Harare • HIV/AIDS • Zimbabwe elections

Scientists Build Immune System in Test Tube

Breakthrough could
make it easier, and safer, to test vaccines

Mar 28, 08 3:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Scientists have discovered a way to produce tiny artificial human immune systems, Time reports, a breakthrough that could transform vaccine research. The process—called Modular Immune In Vitro Construct—will allow researchers to test budding medicines as never before and possibly make faster progress against AIDS and other killers.... More »

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medicine • medical breakthrough • vaccine • immune system • HIV/AIDS • clinical trials

UPDATED

Bush Urges Congress
to Pass Surveillance Bill

Threat growing as House holds up bill over immunity for telecoms, prez charges

Feb 28, 08 9:29 AM CST
(Newser) - President Bush urged Congress this morning to pass an update to the terrorist surveillance bill that expired more than a week ago, CNN reports. Bush said the delay poses "a risk of opening a gap in our intelligence gathering." The bill stalled in the House over a provision... More »

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Iraq • War on Terror • foreclosure • surveillance • terrorist • FISA • Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act • foreign intelligence • HIV/AIDS • George W. Bush

Bush Pushes Abstinence in AIDS Program

In Tanzania, president prods Congress to renew global aid pact

Feb 17, 08 1:21 PM CST
(Newser) - President Bush urged Congress today to “stop squabbling” and renew his global AIDS program, which provides medication and treatment for millions and earmarks funds for abstinence efforts. In Tanzania, his African tour’s second stop, Bush signed a $700 million aid package, saying, “We don’t want people... More »

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Barack Obama • Tanzania • aid • abstinence education • Liberia • Rwanda • abstinence • HIV/AIDS • Ghana • US Congress • Benin • Jakaya Kikwete • AIDS prevention • PEFPAR • George W. Bush

Treating Herpes Fails to Cut
HIV Rate

Unexpected results stun scientists hoping for cut in transmission

Feb 5, 08 11:01 AM CST
(Newser) - An eagerly anticipated HIV study returned disappointing results yesterday, crushing scientists' hopes that targeting the genital herpes virus could help reduce the transmission of HIV. Although the reasoning seemed sound—having herpes boosts a person's contraction risk nearly threefold, so targeting herpes should combat HIV infection—the study found no... More »

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circumcision • World Health Organization • HIV/AIDS • herpes • scientific study • Retrovirus Conference • Connie Celum • acyclovir

School Breaks With Feds Over Gay Rights

San Jose State stops blood drives, cites FDA rule banning gays

Jan 31, 08 8:59 PM CST
(Newser) - Saying a federal directive aimed at keeping gay men from donating blood violates school non-discrimination policies, the president of a California university is stopping blood drives on campus, the San Jose Mercury News reports. In a campus-wide email, San Jose State University president Don Kassing says a ban on such... More »

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gay rights • FDA • HIV/AIDS • blood drives • San Jose State University

Bush's Unsung AIDS Policy

Under-the-radar program saves
millions in Africa

Jan 5, 08 6:19 PM CST
(Newser) - A little known, $19-billion program has provided medicine to 1.4 million AIDS-stricken Africans and may be President Bush's most enduring success story, the New York Times reports.  “I’m amazed at how little (Americans) know about Pepfar,” said one Ugandan doctor of the program. Africans... More »

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Africa • PEPFAR • abstinence • HIV/AIDS • George W. Bush

OPINION

Fight Disease, Not Just AIDS

Public health expert urges perspective in global efforts

Jan 1, 08 1:05 PM CST
(Newser) - Global action to fight HIV/AIDS is imperative, but wealthy countries should reconsider committing most of their assistance to just one disease, Harvard expert Daniel Halperin writes in today's New York Times. Cheaply preventable illnesses like diarrhea claim many more lives in the poorest African countries than HIV yet receive scant... More »

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Africa • malaria • public health • HIV/AIDS • tuberculosis • Daniel Halperin • Harvard School of Public Health

NJ to Require Prenatal HIV Testing

State will make screening routine part of pregnancy care

Dec 26, 07 7:31 PM CST
(Newser) - Doctors in New Jersey will soon test all expecting mothers for HIV under a new law signed today. The test will become a routine part of prenatal care unless a woman specifically asks not to have one, the AP reports. Previously, doctors were required only to offer the test. Doctors... More »

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pregnancy • New Jersey • HIV/AIDS

Syphilis Makes
a Surprise Comeback

Infection rates in Europe have soared
on safe-sex fatigue

Dec 20, 07 5:34 PM CST
(Newser) - Syphilis, the sexual scourge of the 19th century, was all but vanquished in Europe in the fifties. But it's making a comeback, with 2006 UK infection rates 10 times what they were a decade earlier, and other nations boasting similar stats. Health officials blame the upsurge on the rise of... More »

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public health • sexual health • syphilis • STD • online dating • HIV/AIDS

Navy Chaplain With HIV Gets Jail in Forcible Sodomy Case

Didn't disclose illness before sex with officer

Dec 6, 07 2:43 PM CST
(Newser) - An HIV-positive US Navy chaplain pleaded guilty today to several charges of forcible sodomy and an aggravated assault charge for not disclosing his HIV status to one man, the AP reports. Lt. Cmdr. John Thomas Matthew Lee, 42, was sentenced to two years; without the plea bargain, the charges could... More »

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Catholic Church • homosexuality • US Navy • HIV/AIDS • US Naval Academy • Lt. Cmdr. John Thomas Matthew Lee

UN Slashes AIDS Estimate

Agency admits it seriously overestimated spread of epidemic

Nov 20, 07 9:12 AM CST
(Newser) - The United Nations will publish a report admitting that it has greatly overestimated the scale and the progress of the AIDS epidemic, writes the Washington Post. The UN's AIDS agency now believes that the disease has been slowing for a decade and that the worldwide toll of people living with... More »

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Africa • United Nations • HIV/AIDS

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