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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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Ugandan Parliament Acts to Legalize Hate Against the LGBTI Community

On Tuesday, Feb. 7, hours before the Ninth Circuit ruled "Prop 8" unconstitutional in the state of California, raucous cheers rang out in the Ugandan Parliament as legislators reintroduced a controversial bill that would in effect legislate hate against the Ugandan lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI)...

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Ugandan Parliament Acts to Legalize Hate Against the LGBTI Community

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Karen Torjesen: Feminist Theology In The 21st Century

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TEXT: D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray's 2012 State Of The District Address

District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray delivered his State of the District address Tuesday evening at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue.

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HIV Drugs Not Linked With Child Psychiatric Problems

Drugs used to treat children infected with the virus that causes AIDS do not appear to increase the risk of psychiatric problems in children, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

hiv News From the Web

02/10/12 Proposed HIV testing pathway could help show... Source: Script World Pharmaceutical News The Forum for Collaborative HIV Research has released a new scientific paper that lays out a different approach for conducting Phase III HIV trials.
02/10/12 AIDS educator fights stigma among women Source: Tennessean.com - Nashville TN Barbara Gunn-Lartey went to law school in Philadelphia but never envisioned herself becoming a fabulous prosecutor, as she described.
02/10/12 Merck says hepatitis pill hampers HIV Drugs Source: Zee News Merck & Co's recently approved Victrelis treatment for hepatitis C considerably lessens the effectiveness of some widely used medicines against the virus that causes AIDS, Merck and U.S. regulators said in separate reports.
02/10/12 Alarming rate of HIV/AIDS infection among young women Source: Jamaica Gleaner There is a worrying trend of younger females contracting HIV/AIDS, with the 10-29 and 15-19 age groups accounting for the majority of the increase.
02/10/12 India's global pharmacy role threatened by EU pact Source: Times Leader - Wilkes-Barre PA (AP) Efforts by India and the European Union to strengthen trade are threatening India's ability to deliver lifesaving medicines to the world's poorest, analysts say as the two sides push through protracted negotiations on a free-trade pact.

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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