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(Newser) - Libya announced details today about the deal that freed six foreign medical workers, as it  officially protested the pardoning of the workers by the Bulgarian government,  BBC reports. The group had been imprisoned in Libya since 1999 for infecting 438 children with HIV/AIDS. But international experts say there was absolutely no basis for the charges. More »

More about:  European Union • torture • AIDS • Libya • extradition • pardon • Bulgaria

Dems Fret Over School Ruling

Howard U. debate concentrates on race

Washington Post Washington Post Jun 29, 07 8:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Supreme Court decision limiting the role of race in public-school assignments was the talk of the town yesterday—even at the Democratic debate. The agenda at historically black Howard University was minority issues, and although attention naturally fell on Barack Obama, his seven competitors also had their moments in the spotlight, the Washington Post reports. More »

More about:  Barack Obama • Election 2008 • Democrats • US Supreme Court • Joe Biden • race • AIDS • poverty • discrimination • Mike Gravel

Early Immunity to Chimp Virus Leaves Humans Open to HIV

An advantage 4M years ago is a weakness now

Scientific American Scientific American Jun 22, 07 10:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Humans are more susceptible to HIV than other primates because our ancestors evolved a protein that could fight off a different retrovirus that infected chimps, says Scientific American . The most conspicuous difference between the chimpanzee genome sequenced in 2005 and the human one, says a Seattle virologist, was 130 copies of a retrovirus that inserted its DNA into cells, as HIV does today. More »

More about:  health • DNA • genetics • disease • evolution • AIDS • HIV • genome • chimpanzees

G8 Concludes with AIDS Pledge

World leaders renew $60B pledge to fight disease in Africa

New York Times New York Times Jun 8, 07 3:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Global leaders renewed their vow to spend $60 billion to help fight AIDS, TB, and malaria in Africa today as the G8 summit wrapped up. But they set no deadlines for delivering the relief, leading critics to question the pledge. "I think it is deliberately the language of obfuscation," U2 frontman Bono told the New York Times. More »

More about:  George W. Bush • Russia • Iran • France • global warming • Africa • carbon emissions • greenhouse gases • AIDS • Kosovo • G8 summit • malaria • Group of Eight • Bono • Tuberculosis • U2

Bush Asks Congress to Double AIDS Effort

Calls for $30 billion over 5 years, after he's out of office

Washington Post Washington Post May 30, 07 6:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush wants to double the funding of a U.S. program that battles the global AIDS crisis. Bush will ask Congress today to commit $30 billion over the next five years after the current program expires in 2008. The extra cash could save the lives of 1.5 million more people. More »

Desmond Tutu to Anglicans: Get Over It

Church should attend to AIDS, corruption, Darfur—not gay priests

BBC BBC May 28, 07 9:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu called on Africa's Anglican church to let go of what he called its "extraordinary obsession" with gay priests and same-sex marriage.  The church should, instead, be paying attention to the crises caused by AIDS, Darfur and Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe's corruption.  More »

Drag Queens Take Over Bingo

Bingo doesn't know what hit it

Time Time May 3, 07 1:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Time documents the rise of drag queen bingo, the revolution that added trannies to grannies to make church basements a little more fabulous. It began in Seattle in the early '90s, when Judy Werle hatched a bingo AIDS fundraiser. "We decided to liven it up in the way that only gay men can." It's since become a national obsession. More »

More about:  AIDS • Transvestite • Drag Queen • bingo

UN Urges Mass Circumcision

Mass circumcisions in AIDS-stricken region could reduce infection

Guardian (UK) Guardian (UK) Mar 29, 07 11:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mass circumcision should be urged in AIDS-devastated regions to cut infection rates, the UN said yesterday. With trials demonstrating that circumcised men are 60% less likely to contract HIV, such programs could prevent 5.7 million new HIV cases in the next two decades, the Guardian reports. More »

More about:  United Nations • Africa • AIDS • HIV • circumcision

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