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AIDS/HIV
DC pushes female condoms to fight HIV epidemic
(AP)
29 Jul 2010 at 12:20am
AP - Charlene Cotton will talk to anyone about sex. Several days a week she stands behind a table decorated with a bowl of flavored condoms and safer sex pamphlets, calling to women passing on the street, "Come check out my table. Don't be scared."
Lack of Funds Hampers Global Fight Against AIDS
(OneWorld.net)
26 Jul 2010 at 7:26am
OneWorld.net - VIENNA, Jul 26 (IPS) - The global conference on AIDS in Vienna last week will be remembered for
"Broken Promises Kill", a slogan echoed by a coalition of activists who had
gathered from around the world.
HIV-Positive Women Who Want to Conceive Feel Stigma: Survey
(HealthDay)
23 Jul 2010 at 8:48pm
HealthDay - FRIDAY, July 23 (HealthDay News) -- Some HIV-positive women who
want to have children feel stigmatized by their doctors, new research has
found.
New fronts in AIDS war, but funding foe is back
(AFP)
23 Jul 2010 at 1:43pm
AFP - The 18th council of war on AIDS has opened up new fronts in a nearly three-decade-old campaign but in the grim awareness that a battle-hardened enemy -- the money crunch -- is back.
Obama, Clinton pledge US support for AIDS fight
(AP)
23 Jul 2010 at 9:54am
AP - President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton have pledged the support of the United States in the global fight against AIDS.
Obama pledges to up AIDS fight despite tough times
(Reuters)
23 Jul 2010 at 9:40am
Reuters - President Barack Obama pledged on Friday to redouble efforts to fight HIV and AIDS through his global health initiative, despite dealing with economic hard times in the wake of a global recession.
World AIDS conference closes
(AFP)
23 Jul 2010 at 9:06am
AFP - The 18th International AIDS Conference closed in Vienna on Friday after six days of seminars, workshops and networking on fighting AIDS and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) which causes it.
Does Circumcision Prevent HIV?
(LiveScience.com)
23 Jul 2010 at 7:50am
LiveScience.com - Offering circumcision would have a very small effect on reducing HIV
transmission rates among gay and bisexual men in the United States,
according to researchers presenting findings at the XVIII International
AIDS Conference held this week in Vienna, Austria.
Gilead AIDS drug safe for HIV prevention in study
(Reuters)
23 Jul 2010 at 2:04am
Reuters - Gilead's HIV drug tenofovir is safe to be given to men at high risk of contracting the virus as a preventative measure, scientists said on Friday, but further trials are needed to test its efficacy.
Early, rural-based HIV care offers hope in Africa
(Reuters)
22 Jul 2010 at 11:32am
Reuters - Treating HIV patients in remote areas of Africa soon after they are infected and using community care teams instead of doctors can cut costs and help people live longer than those treated later, a charity said Thursday.
Prisons emerge as hotspots for AIDS pandemic
(AFP)
22 Jul 2010 at 11:18am
AFP - Prisons are excellent breeding grounds for HIV, enabling the AIDS virus to propagate swiftly and stealthily, yet many options exist for tackling the problem, the world AIDS conference heard.
Funding woes overshadow AIDS conference
(AP)
22 Jul 2010 at 10:01am
AP - Rich countries must give more for the fight against AIDS or risk jeopardizing progress in battling the disease, participants at an international conference urged Thursday.
Lethal mixture drives AIDS pandemic in ex-Soviet bloc
(AFP)
22 Jul 2010 at 9:03am
AFP - Official indifference, stigma and a blinkered reflex to criminalise drug addicts have turned Eastern Europe and Central Asia into the region where HIV is spreading fastest, the world AIDS forum heard.
Health watchdogs sound alarm over TB/HIV deaths
(AFP)
22 Jul 2010 at 8:43am
AFP - Two global health agencies joined forces on Thursday in a campaign aimed at averting 200,000 deaths each year by co-infection from tuberculosis and the AIDS virus.
J&J AIDS drug shows promise
(Reuters)
22 Jul 2010 at 7:51am
Reuters - Two pivotal trials of a Johnson & Johnson experimental HIV drug found it worked as well as an existing drug, with fewer side effects but also with nearly twice as many patients failing to respond to treatment.
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