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DC Mayor Arrested for Protesting Budget Restrictions

WASHINGTON -- The budget deal lawmakers struck to avoid a government shutdown was greeted by some with relief, but it has one city already reeling: the capital itself. City officials say Washington was used as a pawn last week's budget bargaining, with new restrictions part of the price of a deal. Angry that Congress...

Britain Allows Some Gay Men to Donate Blood -- Why Not the US?

Britain is reversing its ban on gay men donating blood, but there's a catch: Homosexual blood donors have to swear they haven't had sex with another man in the past 10 years. British health officials are expected to implement the change in the coming weeks, reversing a decades-long ban that gay rights advocates had...

More Families Are Adopting HIV-Positive Children

The immediate task might be coaxing a toddler into one more swallow of nasty-tasting medication. Longer term, there are tough choices to be made about telling that child - and the surrounding community - why those daily doses may be needed for the rest of his or her life. While most adoptions present challenges, there's a...

Myanmar Struck by Earthquake; 5 Facts About the Former Burma

The impoverished Southeast Asian country of Myanmar, known as Burma under British rule, is somewhat off the beaten path in terms of American news consumption and rarely makes headlines. So when it was struck by a powerful earthquake today, AOL News thought it would take a moment to offer up a quick list of key facts about...

Transplant Patient Got AIDS From New Kidney

ATLANTA -- A transplant patient contracted AIDS from the kidney of a living donor, in the first documented case of its kind in the U.S. since screening for HIV began in the mid-1980s. It turns out the donor had unprotected gay sex in the 11 weeks between the time he tested negative and the time the surgery took place in...

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Strange Bedfellows: Should HIV-Positive And HIV-Negative Men Ever Have Sex With Each Other?

Thirty years into the epidemic the stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS has greatly diminished, especially in big cities and in areas such as Palm Springs and its environs.

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Gustav Praekelt: How Mobile Technology Is Saving Mothers

On my visit to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2003, almost every person I saw had a mobile phone, but most were texting, not making voice calls.

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Deborah Dugan: Engaging New Audiences in the Fight Against AIDS

The world finds itself at a historic moment in the fight against HIV/AIDS, with the opportunity to end mother-to-child transmission of HIV and take a crucial step toward defeating this global pandemic that has already claimed 30 million lives.

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Christian Nursing Home Fires Nurse After Finding Out She Is HIV-Positive

Telling your coworkers that you're HIV-positive might make many people nervous.

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Susan Wile Schwarz: Love in the Time of HIV

About a mile down the bumpy country road that leads from the city of Les Cayes to the rural community of Fonfrede sits a small sundries shop called La Foi de Job. The Faith of Job. The name of this shop will probably seem unremarkable to anyone who has been to Haiti, whose cities and countryside are dotted with all manner...

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05/29/12 New Payphone Signs Aim To Reduce HIV Infections In... Source: NY1 News - New York NY AIDS has been with us for so long that it might be hard to imagine many young people just don't think about the risks.
05/29/12 The lost generation of children Source: China Daily Ethnic group's AIDS orphans forced to face adult responsibilities, reports Zhang Yuchen in Sichuan.
05/29/12 Police lacked expertise in Gwaze trial - professor Source: Otago Daily Times A lack of HIV experts in New Zealand means police should have looked overseas to get advice before laying a murder charge against George Gwaze, a medical professor says.
05/29/12 South Africa scores poorly on Saving Mothers Source: Health-e Almost 5 000 women died while pregnant or within 42 days of giving birth in South Africa between 2008 and 2010, more than in any of the previous years.
05/29/12 Needle exchange program comes to Syracuse Source: ABC - WSYR 9 - Syracuse NY It's part of the 20th anniversary of the AIDS Walk and Run event, which will take place this weekend at the Beaver Lake Nature Center.

Background on HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (a member of the retrovirus family) that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive.

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