NPR

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AIDS has been transformed from a death sentence into a manageable chronic disease. The holistic approach to care that helped make that possible could transform health care for us all.

STAT

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When a fatal disease becomes increasingly common, scientists study how it spreads and how to prevent it. We should be doing the same thing with gun violence and mass shootings.

Essential Apple User Magazine

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For the last 15 years, Apple has released (PRODUCT)RED models of its key gadgets. A percentage of the profits for these (PRODUCT)RED lines is given to a global fund to fight HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Since 2006, Apple customers have helped rais

Literary Hub

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“You can’t name a disease after a group of people,” is how prominent gay rights leader Morris Kight and others argued against the use of group-specific nomenclature. That argument was in 1982, not 2020. During Ronald Reagan’s first presidential term,

India Today

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Bodybuilder Khundrakpam Pradipkumar Singh revealed that he was HIV positive on the day he was crowned Mr Manipur-his first major title-in 2007. The revelation catapulted Singh and the sport of bodybuilding onto the country's front pages for a brief m

Post Magazine

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Concerns have surfaced over minors' access to mobile dating platforms with a popular Chinese gay dating app suspending registration of new users after a report that some underage users contracted HIV on dates set up via the app. Blued, which was laun

NPR

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A report from Johns Hopkins University and Human Rights Watch finds an alarming decline in the quality of health care across the country.

HELLO magazine

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Over the past 30 years, the Elton John Aids Foundation has raised $515m (£370m) worldwide, helped save an estimated five million lives through its work and supported more than 3,000 individual projects. The organisation provides support services to p

Our State: Celebrating North Carolina

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ONLY A COUPLE OF TIMES DID calls come during the middle of the night, but when they did, Terry Taylor answered. She vividly remembers the one that came one morning at 2 a.m. The man had a raging fever and was on the verge of delirium. “We ran and got

NPR

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Knowing where rates of prevalence are highest — and lowest — can lead to new strategies for treatment and prevention. The map focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, the epicenter of the epidemic.

NPR

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In many parts of the world, the rate of HIV infection is declining. But not among the indigenous peoples of this Central American country.

Manhattan Institute

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“Isn’t anyone in this room normal?” That was the response of former Queens assemblywoman Nettie Mayersohn, who died late last week at 96, to a roomful of “experts” and “activists” trying to browbeat her into accepting that 2 + 2 = 5, that up is down—

The Advocate

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ATLANTA VOTERS DECIDED in late November that city council member Andre Dickens would be their next mayor. Dickens has a lot on his plate, including ongoing issues with the city’s HOPWA (Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS) program. Managing a

Los Angeles Times

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Half of the Americans recently diagnosed with HIV had been living with the virus for at least three years without realizing it, missing out on opportunities for early treatment and in some cases spreading it to others, according to a new report by th

The Marshall Project

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While COVID-19 isn’t an automatic death sentence, but the fear, vilification and isolation are the same.

WHO

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Jake Glaser was 17 years old and struggling with grief and anger when he first decided he wanted to get a tattoo in honour of his mother, Elizabeth Glaser, and sister Ariel – both of whom had tragically died of AIDS by the time Jake was just 10. Eliz

STAT

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The founding chair of what is today amfAR was a leading voice for science and reason in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

Nashville Lifestyles Magazine

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It’s been more than a year since red carpet events, but on August 21 Vanderbilt Comprehensive Care Clinic (VCCC) will kick off the return of formal parties with its inaugural Ruby Gala. All proceeds go towards VCCC’s goal of ending the HIV/AIDS epide

Global Voices

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"The voices of people living with HIV are neglected by the media, which often portrays them as victims, or examples not to be followed, under the auspices of promoting prevention"

Futurity

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A number of behaviors in younger adults that increase risk for the transmission of HIV/AIDS have declined or changed between 2010 and 2020, according to a national study. In the ongoing national study of high school graduates 21-30 years old, investi

NPR

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Christopher Harris was diagnosed with AIDS in the 1980s, which was often seen as a death sentence. That's when he discovered the Atlanta Buyers Club, which saved many lives, including his own.

STAT

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Three decades after the first World AIDS Day is not the time to give up the fight, or to forget the role that political will must play in winning it.

Futurity

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Scaling up an anti-alcohol program to combat HIV in Kenya could make that effort cheaper, say researchers. Alcohol may be a factor in more than 13 percent of deaths from infectious diseases, including HIV. Experts say drinking undermines the fight ag

NPR

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That's why public health officials are urging people to "know your status." But if they learn they are HIV positive, there isn't always a clear path to treatment.

Literary Hub

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Ronald Reagan has a lot to account for: the early AIDS epidemic unleashed more stigmatization of gay men than any other event in the history of gay life in America, and Ronald Reagan presided as president over the first seven years of that slaughter.

Beijing Review

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A staff member from the Disease Prevention and Control Department in Haigang District, Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province, tells primary school students about HIV/AIDS prevention and control on November 30. December 1 marks World AIDS Day. Various acti

Chicago magazine

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Q: In your book, you say you hold the dubious honor of having signed more death certificates in 1992 than anyone else in Illinois. A: I became very friendly with the hospital office staff, because I was there two or three days a week just signing dea

Post Magazine

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Gay men in China are more likely to take HIV tests if they are shown images and videos from crowdsourced social media campaigns, a group of international researchers has concluded. HIV infection rates are increasing among sexually active gay men in C

The Atlantic

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Social gatherings provoke moral indignation—but bringing in law enforcement will promote injustice, not reduce infections.

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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“I was 15 when my mother Mary was diagnosed with breast cancer, and began to go in and out of hospital for treatment. At that age, you don’t really know what’s going on other than that she was ill after chemo. She died two years later, aged 44, and i