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  • August 2008

    • HIV Rates Rise for Gays, Ignored by World Programs

      Associated Press  |  Aug 10, 08 6:21 AM CDT

      HIV Rates Rise for Gays, Ignored by World Programs

      (Newser) - Even as fewer people are dying from AIDS, new HIV infections continue to rise at alarming rates among the global gay and bisexual population, who are tageted by less than 1% of the $669 million spent on prevention worldwide, AP reports. In 86 nations, homosexual sex is considered a crime, and in seven countries it's punishable by death, according to the Foundation for AIDS Research, More »

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      AIDS  • HIV  • homosexual  • bisexual

    • A Pill a Day Could Keep HIV Away

      New York Times  |  Aug 4, 08 7:24 AM CDT

      A Pill a Day Could Keep HIV Away

      (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 for stopping infection before it starts. More »

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      AIDS  • HIV  • infection  • AIDS prevention  • drug trials

  • July 2008

    • Gene Raises AIDS Risk in Africa

      Times (UK)  |  Jul 16, 08 10:14 PM CDT

      Gene Raises AIDS Risk in Africa

      (Newser) - A gene extremely common among Africans but almost unknown other ethnic groups may be rendering people of sub-Saharan Africa more susceptible to HIV and AIDS, the Times of London reports. The gene variant—common because it provides malaria protection—makes carriers 40% more likely to contract HIV and could be responsible for 11%, or 2.5 million, of the AIDS cases in Africa, the continent hardest hit by the disease. More »

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      United Nations  • Africa  • AIDS  • HIV  • malaria  • University College London  • AIDS epidemic

    • Putting Helms' Name on AIDS Bill the Ultimate Insult

      Pandagon  |  Jul 16, 08 7:35 PM CDT

      Putting Helms' Name on AIDS Bill the Ultimate Insult

      (Newser) - A move by Sen. Elizabeth Dole to honor former Republican colleague Jesse Helms by adding his name to a bill that would combat AIDS has Pandagon blogger Pam Spaulding seeing red. "Dole spits in the face" of gay activists, Spaulding writes, by attaching the stridently anti-homosexual Helms to a measure that could save thousands of lives. More »

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      AIDS  • Jesse Helms  • Elizabeth Dole

    • Senate Targets Ban on HIV- Positive Visitors

      Associated Press  |  Jul 16, 08 4:31 PM CDT

      Senate Targets Ban on HIV- Positive Visitors

      (Newser) - The Senate moved today to repeal a ban on allowing immigrants and vistors who are HIV-positive to enter the country, the AP reports. The measure was part of a $50 billion bill to combat AIDS worldwide. The US is one of only a dozen countries—including Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Libya—that forbids the entry of visitors with AIDS. More »

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      Senate  • immigration  • Africa  • John Kerry  • AIDS  • HIV  • Gordon Smith  • visas

    • Stubborn Mbeki Denies the Blood on Hands

      New York Times  |  Jul 3, 08 6:45 AM CDT

      Stubborn Mbeki Denies the Blood on Hands

      (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 stubbornness might provide a clue: his AIDS denialism, which cost hundreds of thousands of lives in his own country. More »

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

  • June 2008

    • Stars Turn Out to Fete Mandela

      BBC  |  Jun 27, 08 4:45 PM CDT

      Stars Turn Out to Fete Mandela

      (Newser) - A benefit concert for Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday drew a constellation of music stars to London today, the BBC reports. Will Smith kicked off the festivities, and Leona Lewis was a hit with the crowd, but the star of the show, as expected, was Mandela. "Even as we celebrate, let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete," he said. More »

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      South Africa  • AIDS  • concert  • Nelson Mandela

    • City Plans to Test Every Bronx Adult for HIV

      New York Times  |  Jun 26, 08 3:50 AM CDT

      City Plans to Test Every Bronx Adult for HIV

      (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 requirements into a 5-minute presentation health care providers could quickly run through. More »

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

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

      New York Post  |  Jun 10, 08 4:47 AM CDT

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

      (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 carriers are two to three times more likely to get HIV, and urge that people pay special attention to safe sex in the city. More »

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

  • May 2008

    • Saddam Feared AIDS During Captivity

      Daily Mail (UK)  |  May 6, 08 12:47 AM CDT

      Saddam Feared AIDS During Captivity

      (Newser) - Saddam Hussein worried about catching AIDS and other venereal diseases during his US captivity, the Daily Mail reports. He even told guards not to dry their clothes on his laundry line. "I explained to them that they are young and they could have young people's diseases," Saddam wrote in prison diaries that were published today by a pan-Arab newspaper. More »

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      Iraq  • prison  • disease  • AIDS  • Saddam Hussein  • captivity

  • April 2008
  • March 2008

    • HIV Scandal Spreads in Kyrgyzstan

      BBC  |  Mar 21, 08 7:51 AM CDT

      HIV Scandal Spreads in Kyrgyzstan

      (Newser) - Fourteen medical professionals in Kyrgyzstan face malpractice and negligence charges after allegedly infecting 42 children with HIV. The group of doctors, nurses, and a top administrator could receive prison terms of up to 10 years for administering contaminated injections and blood transfusions. Such incidents may be common, one aide worker says, but the stigma of HIV here keeps families from speaking up. More »

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      health  • AIDS  • HIV  • hospitals  • negligence  • Kazakhstan  • medical malpractice  • malpractice  • Kyrgyzstan  • health workers

    • Reuse of Syringes at Nev. Clinic Triggers Health Alarm

      Associated Press  |  Mar 6, 08 4:05 AM CST

      Reuse of Syringes at Nev. Clinic Triggers Health Alarm

      (Newser) - Six people with serious cases of hepatitis are just the beginning of what's expected to be a major health problem after a Las Vegas clinic gambled with the lives of tens of thousands of patients by reusing syringes, reports AP. The practice may have exposed patients to HIV and could be responsible for an outbreak of hepatitis C. The Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada is now the focus of the biggest public health notification operation in US history with nearly 40,000 patients contacted. More »

  • February 2008
  • January 2008

    • Brazil Govt. Targets Carnival Debauchery

      AFP  |  Jan 29, 08 11:35 AM CST

      Brazil Govt. Targets Carnival Debauchery

      (Newser) - As Brazil prepares to indulge in the 5-day party known as Carnival, the president is spearheading a campaign to get samba-crazed revelers to practice safe sex and drink in moderation. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told Brazilians to have fun in his weekly radio address, AFP reports, but reminded them that "the next week we have to work and look after our families." More »

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      Catholic Church  • Brazil  • AIDS  • contraception  • condom  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva  • safe sex  • Carnival  • samba

    • Rent's Lease Up After 12 Years

      New York Times  |  Jan 16, 08 11:51 AM CST

      Rent's Lease Up After 12 Years

      (Newser) - Rent is preparing to close up shop and move out of the Nederlander Theatre on Broadway, its home since 1996. The cutting-edge rock adaptation of La Bohème was written by Jonathan Larson, who died at the age of 35 of an aneurysm the night of the final dress rehearsal. Larson peopled the musical with personalities he knew in the pre-gentrified East Village who were energized by youthful irreverence and exuberance, and shattered by AIDS. More »

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      New York  • AIDS  • theater  • Broadway  • Warner Music

    • AIDS Patients Are Living Longer, but Getting Sicker

      New York Times  |  Jan 6, 08 6:02 AM CST

      AIDS Patients Are Living Longer, but Getting Sicker

      (Newser) - Revolutionary drug cocktails mean AIDS sufferers are living much longer, but as they age they're suffering from medical problems that significantly lower the quality of those extended lives, the New York Times writes. AIDS survivors are struggling with illnesses usually associated with much older people, including cancers, kidney failure, lung problems and depression, doctors are finding. More »

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      health  • drugs  • AIDS  • longevity  • side effects

  • December 2007

    • Rape Case, AIDS Comment Dog Huckabee's Rise

      New York Times  |  Dec 9, 07 9:23 AM CST

      Rape Case, AIDS Comment Dog Huckabee's Rise

      (Newser) - As candidate Mike Huckabee pushes to the front of the GOP contender crowd, he is coming under fire for his record as Arkansas governor. Critics point to both Huckabee's push for the parole of a convicted rapist who murdered after being released and his call for people with AIDS to be quarantined, the New York Times reports. More »

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      election 2008  • Mike Huckabee  • rape  • homosexuality  • AIDS  • Arkansas  • Wayne Dumond

    • US AIDS Numbers Adjusted Up

      Washington Post  |  Dec 1, 07 6:22 AM CST

      US AIDS Numbers Adjusted Up

      (Newser) - AIDS is spreading faster among Americans than had been thought, the Washington Post reports. A new method of testing that distinguishes recent infections from older ones shows that the number of people becoming infected each year in the US is 50% higher than previously estimated, for an average of 60,000 rather than 40,000 new cases. More »

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      public health  • AIDS  • STD  • Centers for Disease Control

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