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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 ...

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.

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.

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...

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.

Four years ago, Petr Sobek was like most anyone else - he knew HIV existed, but didn't pay much attention to it.

In brief: AIDS walk signup is under way

"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 ...

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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

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.

GOVERNMENT has urged communities to come up with HIV and Aids initiatives that complement its programmes in responding to challenges brought by the pandemic.

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.

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 ...

The Shelby County Ryan White Program has launched the “Know Now, Live Longer” campaign to encourage more people to get tested for HIV. The...

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - 09/01/10) - Editors Note: There are 2 photos included with this Press Release. AIDS Calgary presents the 2010 Scotiabank AIDS Walk for Life on September 12, 2010 at Eau Claire Plaza. The goal of the Walk is to raise funds for AIDS Calgary's support, prevention and education programs for those affected by, at risk for or living with HIV/AIDS in Calgary. On ...

FT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AHF Offers Fix for FL’s AIDS Drug Wait List: Under AHF Plan, Drug Cos—All of Which Have Patient Assistance Programs—Would Provide Free HIV Drugs, while AHF & other Pharmacies Absorb Dispensing Fees