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AIDS stories: 75 news summaries

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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

Saddam Feared AIDS During Captivity

Prison diary reveals horror of 'young people's diseases'

May 6, 08 12:47 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

 Material Girl Gets
 Back in the Groove 

Almost 50, Madonna has 2 films and a pop record on the way

Apr 6, 08 4:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pushing 50, Madonna is still rolling out movies and tunes like a true blue star, Vanity Fair reports. And she is unfazed by nasty reviews for Filth and Wisdom, a feature that she directed starring a Ukrainian gypsy punk singer. “You have to get to a point where you... More »

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AIDS • iTunes • Malawi • Justin Timberlake • documentary • Madonna • Timbaland • Filth and Wisdom • Material Girl • Pharrell Williams • Hard Candy • I Am Because We Are

AIDS Drug
May Raise Risk
of Heart Attack

New finding about important treatment confuses doctors

Apr 2, 08 6:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Patients who use an important and widely used AIDS drug have twice the risk of heart attacks, a new study shows. Abacavir is a major component in the so-called "drug cocktails" used to control HIV. "This is a head-scratcher, in the sense that we don't really understand the... More »

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AIDS • HIV • heart attack • abacavir • drug cocktail

HIV Scandal Spreads in Kyrgyzstan

Health workers charged with
infecting children

Mar 21, 08 7:51 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

Reuse of Syringes at Nev. Clinic Triggers Health Alarm

Practice may have spread hepatitis, HIV

Mar 6, 08 4:05 AM CST
(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... More »

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AIDS • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • HIV • Las Vegas • hepatitis B • Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada • anesthesia • syringes • unsafe practices • hepatitis C • Southern Nevada Health District. • Brian Labus • Dipak Desai

Microsoft
Pioneer Leaves $65M to Gay Rights Groups

Gates' high school pal leaves a record gift

Feb 25, 08 6:07 AM CST
(Newser) - One of the first five Microsoft employees has left $65 million of his estate to gay rights groups, the Seattle Times reports. Ric Weiland, who helped high school friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen launch Microsoft, committed suicide in 2006 at age 53. His donation is believed to be the... More »

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philanthropy • gay rights • Microsoft • AIDS • Bill Gates • Seattle • National Gay and Lesbian Task Force • Paul Allen • Ric Weiland • Pride Foundation • Lambda Legal • American Foundation for AIDS Research • bequest

Brazil Govt. Targets Carnival Debauchery

Sex-crazed partygoers get free condoms, morning-after pills

Jan 29, 08 11:35 AM CST
(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... More »

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

Rent's Lease Up After 12 Years

7th-longest-running Broadway show closing June 1

Jan 16, 08 11:51 AM CST
(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.... More »

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theater • AIDS • New York • Broadway • Warner Music • Rent • Jonathan Larson • Nederlander Theatre • East Village

AIDS Patients Are Living Longer, but Getting Sicker

Survivors hit with 'old age' health problems

Jan 6, 08 6:02 AM CST
(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... More »

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health • drugs • AIDS • side effects • longevity

Rape Case, AIDS Comment Dog Huckabee's Rise

Frontrunner spot draws close scrutiny of his record

Dec 9, 07 9:23 AM CST
(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... More »

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

US AIDS Numbers Adjusted Up

New testing method discovers infection spreading faster

Dec 1, 07 6:22 AM CST
(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,... More »

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AIDS • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • public health • STD

Cold Virus Foiled AIDS Vaccine

Study subjects with immunity to common virus saw increased risk with vaccine

Nov 8, 07 1:08 PM CST
(Newser) - A promising AIDS vaccine that failed in trials—actually increasing rather than reducing risk of infection—turned out to be ineffective in people who had immunity to a common cold virus, developers reported yesterday. The Merck vaccine contained an altered version of that virus, and study subjects with existing immunities... More »

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AIDS • Merck • HIV • AIDS vaccine

Cat Out of the Bag: Kitty's DNA Decoded

Deciphering feline genome could help with HIV, blindness research

Nov 2, 07 6:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 4-year-old Abyssinian cat named Cinnamon has become the first of her species to have its DNA sequenced, the BBC reports. Cats now join dogs, chimps, rats, mice, cows and people as mammals with decoded genomes. Cinnamon’s sequence could shed light on hundreds of human illnesses; cats can suffer... More »

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AIDS • DNA • blindness • genome • cat

AIDS Came to US From Haiti Years Before It Was ID'd: Study

'Unnerving' how long it existed 'below radar'

Oct 30, 07 4:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The AIDS virus reached America through Haiti, not directly from Africa, and far earlier than has been suspected—the 1960's, not the early 1980's, researchers have discovered. Scientists analyzed 25-year-old blood samples and used what they know of the virus' mutations to construct a rough timeline of the progression of... More »

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AIDS • disease • HIV • United States • Haiti • epidemic • virus

Experimental AIDS Vaccine May Increase HIV Risk

Hundreds of trial volunteers being notified in South Africa

Oct 25, 07 6:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - A once-promising AIDS vaccine being developed by Merck may actually increase the risk of contracting HIV, the Washington Post reports. In South Africa, 19 people who received the vaccine in a trial contracted the virus, as opposed to 11 who received a placebo. South  African researchers have begun warning hundreds... More »

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AIDS • Merck • HIV

Bank Gives Shy Thais Condoms

Thailand bank fights aids with free hand outs

Oct 2, 07 11:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Some unusual withdrawals will be taking place later this month as Thailand's Kasikorn Bank begins giving away free condoms, branded with the bank's logo, at its 600 branches.  Called "Condoms for Confidence," the campaign to combat the spread of AIDS  seeks to alleviate embarrassment felt by many... More »

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AIDS • Thailand • marketing • HIV • condom • banking

He Quietly Gave Away Billions

But now the secretive philanthropist spills the beans behind his generosity

Sep 29, 07 10:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Chuck Feeney’s foundation gave $458 million in grants last year—third only to Ford and Gates—but very few know the secretive philanthropist’s name. Having thus far shielded himself from fame, Feeney gets some star treatment in a new biography that sheds light on his good deeds and... More »

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philanthropy • Africa • Vietnam • AIDS • Cuba • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation • Atlantic Philanthropies • duty free • Ford Foundation

Catholic Leader: Condoms in Africa Carry HIV

Mozambican archbishop charges plot to kill Africans

Sep 27, 07 12:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Catholic opposition to condom use as an AIDS preventive in Africa took a bizarre turn yesterday when a respected archbishop in Mozambique charged that condoms imported from Europe had been deliberately infected with HIV. Maputo Archbishop Francisco Chimoio made his comments at an Independence Day celebration and reiterated them to... More »

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AIDS • Catholic Church • HIV • Mozambique • condom • abstinence

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