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NEWS ABOUT: AIDS prevention

AIDS prevention stories: 9 news summaries

African Lawmaker Calls for 'Branding' HIV Sufferers

Swaziland MP slammed for suggesting compulsory testing, warning logos

May 26, 09 4:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - A member of Swaziland's parliament has come under fire for suggesting making HIV tests compulsory and branding warning logos on the buttocks of those with the disease, the Telegraph reports. "Before having sex with anyone, people will have to check their partners' buttocks before proceeding," he explained. Health... More »

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Africa • HIV • HIV/AIDS • AIDS prevention • AIDS epidemic • Swaziland

(Newser) - Gay AIDS activists in Senegal are fleeing a mob that vows to turn them into "fish food," GlobalPost reports. Arrested late last year, the nine activists were sentenced to 8-year terms for “indecent acts against nature," but an appeals court freed them early this... More »

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gay rights • Africa • Senegal • HIV/AIDS • AIDS prevention

OPINION

 Pope May Be Right 
 About Condoms 
 in Africa 

Study shows that monogamy is the best weapon against AIDS in Africa

Mar 29, 09 6:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pope Benedict's controversial statements that condoms aren't helping in Africa may be unpopular, but evidence shows that he might be right, a public heath researcher argues in the Washington Post. It's a divisive topic in part because the condom has become such a potent symbol of sexual freedom and... More »

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Africa • contraception • Pope Benedict XVI • HIV/AIDS • AIDS prevention • condoms • Howard Stern Grid

 Facebook Users to Deluge 
 Pope With Condoms 


Thousands protest pontiff's claim that contraceptives don't halt HIV

Mar 28, 09 7:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - The pope’s recent remark that condoms not only don’t prevent the spread of HIV but make it worse hasn’t earned him many friends on Facebook, CNN reports. Almost a dozen groups have sprung up in protest of the pontiff’s scientifically inaccurate statement, with thousands of Facebookers—... More »

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Africa • Pope Benedict XVI • AIDS • Catholic Church • HIV • Facebook • protests • AIDS prevention • condoms • Howard Stern Grid

A Pill a Day Could Keep
HIV Away

Massive 15,000-person trial will test drug's effectiveness

Aug 4, 08 7:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - With 2.7 million people contracting HIV every year, the race is on to test the efficacy of a daily pill meant to prevent the virus, the New York Times reports. After recent unimpressive results in tests of vaccines and microbicides, the PrEP drugs are now some scientists’ leading hope... More »

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AIDS • HIV • infection • drug trials • AIDS prevention

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

Sex in the
City: 26% of 
New Yorkers
Have Herpes

City well above
national average

Jun 10, 08 4:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sex in the Big Apple comes with a higher risk of herpes than the national average, the New York Post reports. A full 26% of the city's inhabitants carry the virus that causes genital herpes. The condition only manifests itself in 15% of carriers but health officials warn that herpes... More »

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AIDS • New York City • New York • HIV • STD • safe sex • herpes • AIDS prevention

 Brazil's Condoms Go Tropical 

Rainforest rubber trees will help nation ween itself off foreign producers

Apr 8, 08 6:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Brazil buys more condoms and boasts more rainforest than any other country; now officials hope to connect the dots, the BBC reports. The government will use rubber from Amazon trees to make 100 million condoms a year, given out freely as part of the country's anti-AIDS program. Rubber can be... More »

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Brazil • condom • sustainability • AIDS prevention • Amazon rainforest

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

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