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Pepsi challenge: HIV/AIDS activists compete for $50,000

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - 3 hours 22 min ago
Married HIV/AIDS activists Shawn Decker and Gwenn Barringer are hoping to win a Pepsi sponsored $50,000 grant to take their safe sex presentation on the road to 50,000 teens in all 50 states. As detailed in a 2006 Hook cover story , Decker is a hemophiliac who contracted the virus from a childhood blood transfusion. He is the author of My Pet Virus , a memoir detailing his unlikely and often ...
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Results in HIV/AIDS fight, says BCL Mine

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - 4 hours 20 min ago
SELEBI-PHIKWE: Streamlining HIV and AIDS and adopting a holistic wellness corporate strategy has helped increase awareness amoung employees and the community says BCL Mine general manager, Montwedi Mphathi.
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Results in HIV/AIDS fight, says BCL Mine

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - 5 hours 20 min ago
SELEBI-PHIKWE: Streamlining HIV and AIDS and adopting a holistic wellness corporate strategy has helped increase awareness amoung employees and the community says BCL Mine general manager, Montwedi Mphathi.
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Also In Global Health News: China's First HIV Discrimination Case; Congo Mass Rape; S. Sudan Flooding; Kenya's Population Growth; Family Planning

Medical News Today - HIV/AIDS - 7 hours 54 min ago
Court Accepts China's First HIV Discrimination Case, State Media Reports "A municipal court in central China has accepted the country's first lawsuit alleging work discrimination because of HIV status, state media reported Tuesday," the Associated Press reports (8/31)...
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Revaccination Could Benefit HIV-Infected Children

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - 9 hours 12 min ago
HIV-infected children receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) may require revaccination to maintain immunity against preventable diseases. There remains no standard or official recommendation on revaccination of children receiving HAART, an effective intervention in reducing morbidity and mortality in HIV-infected children...
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UN to support Mizoram in dealing with HIV/AIDS

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - 9 hours 23 min ago
The United Nations (UN) will support Mizoram in prevention of HIV/AIDS and in management of prisons in the northeastern state, an official said here Thursday.
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HIV infection rates rising fast

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - 10 hours 11 min ago
Four years ago, Petr Sobek was like most anyone else - he knew HIV existed, but didn't pay much attention to it.
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In brief: AIDS walk signup is under way

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - 12 hours 34 min ago
In brief: AIDS walk signup is under way
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Revaccination Could Benefit HIV-Infected Children

Medical News Today - HIV/AIDS - 12 hours 54 min ago
HIV-infected children receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) may require revaccination to maintain immunity against preventable diseases. There remains no standard or official recommendation on revaccination of children receiving HAART, an effective intervention in reducing morbidity and mortality in HIV-infected children...
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Also in Global Health News: China's first HIV discrimination case; Congo mass rape; S. Sudan flooding; Kenya's ...

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - 15 hours 11 min ago
"A municipal court in central China has accepted the country's first lawsuit alleging work discrimination because of HIV status, state media reported Tuesday," the Associated Press reports (8/31). "The lawsuit alleges city officials denied the plaintiff, a recent college graduate, a teaching job after a medical screening revealed he had HIV, the virus that causes AIDS," Agence-France-Presse ...
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UN urges nations to increase HIV/AIDS funding

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - 15 hours 21 min ago
New York, Sep 2 : The head of the joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS has reiterated the need for the international community to provide an additional $10 billion to help countries achieve their targets for making AIDS prevention, treatment and care programmes universally available.
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AIDS Cure Quest to Kill `Sleeping' Viruses Enlists Merck Cancer Medicine

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - 15 hours 24 min ago
The 30-year-long search for a cure for AIDS, the world’s deadliest viral infection, may get a renewed boost from an unlikely source: a little-used Merck & Co. cancer drug.
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Botswana: HIV-Positive Mothers Not Convinced to Exclusively Breastfeed

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 23:39
"An HIV-positive woman must never be encouraged to breastfeed because regardless of what the doctors or researchers say - it is too dangerous for the baby," says Koziba Kelatlhe an HIV-positive mother who was advised by health workers not to breastfeed her child.
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Distribution caravans perpetuate AIDS stigma?

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 23:21
FRANCISTOWN: Caravans at health facilities designed as collection points of Anti-retroviral drugs have been identified as perpetuating stigma against people living with HIV and AIDS.
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HIV test a routine part of NYC healthcare

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 21:17
NEW YORK, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- New York residents should expect to be routinely offered a voluntary HIV test when receiving healthcare, health officials say. New York - New York City - United States - United Press International - Metro Areas
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Police officers attend HIV training course

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 20:36
Twenty-three senior police officers, including 13 from the Southern African Regional Police Chief Co-operation Organisation member states are undergoing an HIV and Aids training in Harare.
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Let’s work together to fight Aids scourge: Govt

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 20:33
GOVERNMENT has urged communities to come up with HIV and Aids initiatives that complement its programmes in responding to challenges brought by the pandemic.
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Call To Increase Funding To Combat HIV/AIDS

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 18:14
The head of the UN Programme on HIV/AIDS has reiterated the need for the international community to provide an extra $10 billion to help countries achieve their targets for making AIDS prevention, treatment and care programmes universally available.
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World becoming numb to HIV/AIDS: UNAIDS executive director

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 17:27
HIV infection is on the rise but there is potential to control the upsurge of infections with effective measures only if there are adequate funds. According to UNAIDS executive director Michel Sidibe the world has become numb to the fact that 7,400 people are being infected with AIDS every day and funds to combat it are not pouring in as they should. Since 2001, the number of newly infected ...
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New HIV Campaign Launched in Shelby County

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 16:53
The Shelby County Ryan White Program has launched the “Know Now, Live Longer” campaign to encourage more people to get tested for HIV. The...
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