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Abbott Fund to Build First Pediatric HIV/AIDS Clinic in Tanzania (Red Orbit )

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:00:53 GMT

"The Mbeya center of excellence will provide the foundation for pediatric HIV treatment for the foreseeable future, helping not only to save children's lives but increase health care worker capacity in the country," said Mark W. Kline, M.D., president, Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital. "We are confident that we will see...

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2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic (Law Librarian Blog)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:34:55 GMT

From the press release: "According to new data in the UNAIDS 2008 Report on the global AIDS epidemic there have been significant gains in preventing new HIV infections in a number of heavily affected countries. In Rwanda and Zimbabwe, changes...

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Scenes from Denver '08: Huff Po Oasis, Burritos for Obama, Shotgun Willies, Band-Aids, Pls (NDN)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:47:42 GMT

... women walking around the Mile High City in Mile High heels. I have also noticed millions of Band Aids on feet. Enterprising kids have been selling bottled water on the streets. They ought to expand into Band Aids. There are quite a few people asking for spare money on the streets of downtown Denver, but unlike in some other cities, these Denver dwellers are very laid back about it....

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Albany Medical College receives $60K fed grant for HIV/AIDS care (The Business Review of Albany)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:47:13 GMT

Albany Medical College receives $60K fed grant for HIV/AIDS care

Source : The Business Review of Albany (subscribe)

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Julia Roberts Teams Up with Armani to Design T-Shirt for AIDS Fight (Truemors)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:01:10 GMT

Julia Roberts has shown off her artsy ability beyond the big screen with a new (Product) Red t-shirt created in partnership with fashion legend Giorgio Armani. The Julia-designed tee features the symbolic tree of life with the words “revolution.evolution.devotion” stretching over its green foliage. The money raised from t-shirt sales will go to fight against AIDS in Africa as part of the “Red”...

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Our 'Junk' Aids African Orphans (ABC News)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:06:04 GMT

... to fill a forty-foot shipping container with school supplies and then ship it to Children's Town AIDS orphanage outside Lusaka, Zambia. The project took two years, but this week, a truck finally hitched up to the container on its trailer and drove it away from Silicon Valley to Long Beach, Calif., to be loaded on a ship for Mozambique -- and from there back on another truck to be driven...

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wsj marketwatch: bill clinton, dem leaders & AIDS activists support platform call for national AIDS strategy, disappointed that first time since 1992 no HIV+ speaker at dnc (942) (aids-write.org)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:58:29 GMT

Bill Clinton and Other Leaders Call For ‘Renewal of Battle Against AIDS’ in the United States at Democratic Convention Advocates disappointed that Obama failed to address the issue wall street journal marketwatch Last update: 1:41 p.m. EDT Aug. 29, 2008 DENVER, Aug 29, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — Speaking at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night, Former President Bill...

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30 AIDS orgs for communities of color demand national HIV/AIDS plan, call current u.s. efforts “lethargic, fragmented & unaccountable” (943) (aids-write.org)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:12:48 GMT

AIDS Crisis In Communities Of Color Prompts Demand For National Plan To Fight HIV/AIDS 29 Aug 2008 In a historically unprecedented move, over 30 national HIV/AIDS organizations and leaders representing African-American, Latino, Native American/Alaska Native, and Asian & Pacific Islander communities have joined forces in an urgent call for the development and implementation of [...]...

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Apache Squadron Aids Iraqi Security Progress (Department of Defense)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Since moving from Sadr City to Multinational Division Center, helicopter pilots from the 4th Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, have seen improvements in security and a more relaxed operational tempo.

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Impacts of HIV/AIDS on Economic Development (The AIDS Pandemic)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:40:00 GMT

In 2000, the United Nations created a list of 8 Millennium Development Goals to help promote economic growth and development among developing countries. One of these goals is to combat HIV/AIDS by stopping and reversing its spread and providing universal access to drugs for those infected. While this is definitely a worthwhile goal, why is it included among a list of targets to support growth?...

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AIDS Cases Seenon the Rise in the Philippines (Soc 202 - Current Events)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:11:00 GMT

Chelsea Thompson August 29th, 2008 AIDS Cases Seen on the Rise in the Philippines When the topic of HIV/AIDS comes up in conversation, most people automatically begin thinking about the effects of the disease in Africa. Most people do not realize that that the illness is growing rapidly on other continents and in other countries as well. Statistics concerning positive HIV cases are definitely...

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Bar AIDS Via Bar Hopping (SFist)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:50:00 GMT

If you plan on falling off the wagon or going on a fatal bender, let tonight be that night. Why? Well, because some of the watering holes throughout SF plan on donating up to half of their profits to the Stop AIDS Project . Here are a few of the participating bars where you can altruistically get ripped to the tits tonight. Harvey's (500 Castro Street): Local bloggers Beth Spotswood , Sweet...

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117 die of AIDS in six years (Hindu)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:54:32 GMT

Raichur117 die of AIDS in six years Staff Correspondent This year, 946 HIV-positive cases detected in Raichur District AIDS Control and Prevention Centre to start functioning soonOfficials say many cases in the district have gone unreportedRAICHUR: There has been an increase in the number of HIV and AIDS cases reported in the past six years in Raichur district. More than 4,000...

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Fighting HIV-AIDS One Syringe at a Time (Cara Beck August 29, 2008 @ 4:15pm) Diseass and Pandemics (Soc 202 - Current Events)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:20:00 GMT

... to prevent this dangerous increase. Currently, Latinos in Washington have the “highest rate of new AIDS cases in the country”. Serrano suggests the reopening of syringe exchange programs given the fact that since 2006, more than 300,000 AIDS cases were linked to needle use. This 300,000 makes up one-third of all AIDS cases in the United States. Opponents to the program argue...

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Jennifer Holliday to perform at White Party AIDS fundraiser (Gay South Florida)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:00:39 GMT

News release: The original "Dreamgirl", Jennifer Holliday has been proclaimed by both critics and fans alike as one of history’s greatest Broadway legends. Miss Holliday’s show-stopping, heart-wrenching performance of the torch ballad “And I’m Telling You, I’m Not Going” in...

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AS / A2 / IB Geography - HIV/AIDS Source synthesis (geography blogging alltheway)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:30:25 GMT

A short induction exercise for my Year 12 IB Geography class in case they haven’t all been issued with their laptops before the start of the first lesson. The work will be marked as an informal baseline assessment of study type skills. Take the following three sources (print outs): avert.org: The origin of AIDS and HIV and [...]

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NEJM Publishes Perspective Pieces About HIV/AIDS Vaccine Research, XVII International AIDS Conference (Medical News Today)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:00:00 GMT

The New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday published two perspective pieces about HIV/AIDS vaccine research and the XVII International AIDS Conference earlier this month in Mexico City. Summaries appear below.

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Band-Aid (The Aristocrats)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:51:00 GMT

At the 2004 GOP convention in NYC, you may remember, pearl-laden women in pearl lamé designer dresses hysterically threw handfuls of band-aids into the air whenever the name "John Kerry" was spoken. I hope Johh Kerry picked them all up and filled his pockets so he can do the same every time someone says "John McCain" to him this election season.

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TB overshadowed by HIV/Aids (Mail & Guardian)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:41:00 GMT

"HIV/Aids is about sex; TB is about sputum," said Dr Francois Venter, the head of the HIV Clinicians' Society, at a debate on tuberculosis this week.

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SA mining houses hailed for Aids policies (A Blog Apart...)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:41:23 GMT

South Africa's mining giants have received kudos for being among the first companies to adopt workplace policies on HIV and Aids.

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