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County home to only Ga. HIV/AIDS vaccine company (Marietta Daily Journal)

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - 1 hour 28 min ago
SMYRNA - Cobb County is now home to the only company in Georgia that is developing an HIV/AIDS vaccine. GeoVax Labs Inc., which recently moved its headquarters to Smyrna, is also one of only a hand...
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Concert will benefit HIV/AIDS services (Spartanburg Herald-Journal)

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Sat, 03/13/2010 - 21:49
Jonathan Nelson and the 2010 Gospel Extravaganza choir will perform a concert to benefit AID Upstate, a Greenville-based organization that provides HIV/AIDS patients with housing and medical services and offers testing.
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Concert will benefit HIV/AIDS services (Spartanburg Herald-Journal)

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Sat, 03/13/2010 - 20:12
Jonathan Nelson and the 2010 Gospel Extravaganza choir will perform a concert to benefit AID Upstate, a Greenville-based organization that provides HIV/AIDS patients with housing and medical services and offers testing.
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Concert will benefit HIV/AIDS services (Spartanburg Herald-Journal)

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Sat, 03/13/2010 - 19:25
Jonathan Nelson and the 2010 Gospel Extravaganza choir will perform a concert to benefit AID Upstate, a Greenville-based organization that provides HIV/AIDS patients with housing and medical services and offers testing.
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Annie Lennox trying to get world to see changing face of AIDS (CNN)

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Sat, 03/13/2010 - 12:50
Singer and activist Annie Lennox wants the world to know that the HIV virus and the debilitating condition it causes, AIDS, are the leading killers of women of reproductive age in the world.
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Demand for tabling of HIV/AIDS bill in parliament (Business Standard India)

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Sat, 03/13/2010 - 06:30
Expressing concern over delay in introduction of the proposed bill on HIV/AIDS in parliament, Nagaland-based NGOs working in this field have demanded tabling of the bill during the current session of the house.
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HIV/AIDS Researcher Honored With BMJ's Junior Doctor Of The Year Award (Medical News Today)

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Sat, 03/13/2010 - 06:17
BMJ Group, publisher of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), has recognized University of British Columbia Clinical Associate Prof. Evan Wood with its first annual Junior Doctor of the Year honour. Wood, a lead researcher at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE), was selected from more than 100 nominations from Britain, Sudan, Iraq, Australia and Brazil for his research in and ...
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A Novel Mechanism Of Drug Delivery - PEGylated Dendrimers

Medical News Today - HIV/AIDS - Sat, 03/13/2010 - 03:00
Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Science (MIPS) researchers, in collaboration with the biotechnology company Starpharma Holdings Ltd (ASX:SPL) have developed a new method to deliver medications that may benefit thousands of patients with particular types of cancer, HIV and lymphatic conditions world-wide...
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HIV/AIDS Researcher Honored With BMJ's Junior Doctor Of The Year Award

Medical News Today - HIV/AIDS - Sat, 03/13/2010 - 03:00
BMJ Group, publisher of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), has recognized University of British Columbia Clinical Associate Prof. Evan Wood with its first annual Junior Doctor of the Year honour...
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Event aims to increase HIV/AIDS awareness among young woman in San Gabriel Valley (Pasadena Star-News)

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Sat, 03/13/2010 - 00:47
SAN GABRIEL - With women making up 13 percent of newly-diagnosed AIDS cases in Los Angeles County, officials with the Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team sought Friday to shed light on the growing epidemic on a local level.
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Funding Changes for HIV/AIDS Services (KARK Little Rock)

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Fri, 03/12/2010 - 19:07
A central Arkansas agency that provides services for hundreds of HIV and AIDS patients may soon shut its doors. This after the state health department awarded a $1.5 million dollar grant to another facility.
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Former President Clinton, Bill Gates Encourage U.S. Global Health Investment At Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing

Medical News Today - HIV/AIDS - Fri, 03/12/2010 - 07:00
Former President Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said Wednesday at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing "that U.S. investments in fighting [HIV/]AIDS, malaria and other diseases in underdeveloped nations save lives and play a vital role in improving America's image abroad," the Associated Press reports...
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Also In Global Health News: WFP In Somalia; South Africa's HIV/AIDS Plan; Zimbabwe's Food Needs; Medical Personnel, Vaccines In Bangladesh; More

Medical News Today - HIV/AIDS - Fri, 03/12/2010 - 07:00
WFP Agrees To Cooperate With Probe Of Its Operations In Somalia The World Food Program (WFP) "said Thursday it will cooperate with any independent probe into its food operations in Somalia, after a report found that up to half the food aid intended for the nation's hungry people does not reach its destination," the Associated Press reports...
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AIDS 2010 To Highlight Epidemic In Eastern Europe, Central Asia Regions

Medical News Today - HIV/AIDS - Fri, 03/12/2010 - 07:00
AIDS 2010, the International AIDS Conference to be held July 18-23 in Vienna, Austria, will "highlight the situation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, regions experiencing fast growing [HIV/AIDS] epidemics largely through unsafe injecting drug use," conference organizers announced Wednesday, Agence France-Presse reports...
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Nigeria : HIV/Aids Test - Lawmakers Say It's Necessary for Long Life (AllAfrica.com)

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Fri, 03/12/2010 - 01:04
Their response seem to imply that their lives and survival depended on it. But unlike what obtains presently in Nigeria, members of the Lagos State House of Assembly surprisingly demonstrated the imperative of subjecting themselves to an HIV/AIDS test instead of shying away from it as many are wont.
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Bazezuru, Polygamy And HIV/AIDS (Mmegi)

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Thu, 03/11/2010 - 12:28
As the world grapples with HIV/AIDS, the polygamous community of Bazezuru says it took heed when God warned it of the scourge and has thus been able to hold it at bay, reports Isaac Pinielo and Pini Botlhoko
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British Government, HIV/AIDS Advocates Warn Decreased Aid Budgets Could Lead To Reversals In HIV/AIDS Treatment Progress (Medical News Today)

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Thu, 03/11/2010 - 11:30
Recent gains in the global fight against HIV/AIDS could be reversed as the "global economic downturn pinches poor countries' budgets and donors show signs of backing away from their promise to provide universal access to AIDS treatment," the British government together with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) warned Tuesday, Reuters AlertNet reports...
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DHH urges women to be tested to protect against HIV/AIDS (KPLC Lake Charles)

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Thu, 03/11/2010 - 10:27
In observance of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals are encouraging women to be tested for HIV, the virus which causes AIDS.
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Bazezuru, Polygamy And HIV/AIDS (Mmegi)

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Thu, 03/11/2010 - 09:58
As the world grapples with HIV/AIDS, the polygamous community of Bazezuru says it took heed when God warned it of the scourge and has thus been able to hold it at bay, reports Isaac Pinielo and Pini Botlhoko
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British Government, HIV/AIDS Advocates Warn Decreased Aid Budgets Could Lead To Reversals In HIV/AIDS Treatment Progress

Medical News Today - HIV/AIDS - Thu, 03/11/2010 - 08:00
Recent gains in the global fight against HIV/AIDS could be reversed as the "global economic downturn pinches poor countries' budgets and donors show signs of backing away from their promise to provide universal access to AIDS treatment," the British government together with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) warned Tuesday, Reuters AlertNet reports...
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