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World AIDS Day Question: How Close Are We to a Cure?
Nov 30th 2010 – 11:46AM
(Nov. 30) -- Wednesday is World AIDS Day, where people around the world rally to raise funds and awareness to combat the still-potent global pandemic. But 30 years after the auto-immune disease surfaced in Central Africa, there remains no cure and no vaccine. In western countries, drug cocktails that include...
Obama to Unveil New Plan for Combatting HIV, AIDS
Jul 13th 2010 – 8:58AM
WASHINGTON (July 13) -- President Barack Obama is announcing a new national strategy for combatting HIV and AIDS aimed at helping reduce the number of infections and providing those living with the virus high-quality care free from stigma or discrimination. The strategy calls for reducing the rate of new HIV infections by...
South Africa Gets Real on AIDS Crisis
Nov 4th 2009 – 9:57AM
(Nov. 4) -- After failing for years to face up to its tragic status as the country most ravaged by HIV/AIDS, South Africa is taking a dramatic new approach to the epidemic that experts say could stop a hemorrhage of unnecessary death. AIDS causes about 350,000 deaths per year in South Africa, which has 5.7 million...
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Neil G. Giuliano: San Francisco AIDS Foundation: 30 Years of Answering the Call (VIDEO)
Apr 18th 2012 - 10:23AM
Thirty years ago the very first call came in to San Francisco AIDS Foundation, then known as the Kaposi's Sarcoma Research and Education Foundation.
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Book Blames Colonialism For Birth Of AIDS In Africa
Mar 01st 2012 - 10:20AM
It sounds like a scene out of the 1995 film "Outbreak," but authors Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin are touting some real-life evidence that pinpoints where the AIDS epidemic began.
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Elton John: AIDS Epidemic Book Will Feature Freddie Mercury
Jan 09th 2012 - 05:16PM
Elton John will pen a personal account of his life during the AIDS epidemic with proceeds going to the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
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- 02/07/12 National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Source: Medical News Today President, Founder and CEO of Black AIDS Institute, Phill Wilson, released a letter in light of the 12th annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, stating that the Institute will be releasing their 8th annual State of AIDS in Black America Report.
Background on AIDS epidemic
HIV infection are considered pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). As of 2010 approximately 34 million people have HIV globally.
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