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• Treatment access activists accuse governments of missing targets

  Published: July 19, 2007, 10:35 pm

  Tags: Equitable Access, Aids Treatment Access

  continuing high profile of AIDS at the cost of other diseases affecting similarly large numbers of people in the developing world. An ethical response to this challenge would surely demand that diseases are prioritised based on the number of people affected and life-years lost (if the necessary resourcing is not taking place). It's no good, to

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• Sorting out HIV/AIDS denialists

  Published: July 4, 2007, 6:49 pm

  Tags: Hiv Denialists, Mark Wainberg, Aids Dissidents, John Moore

  a time when progress in HIV-AIDS drug treatments and life expectancy is informing an alarming new complacency in our children, policy-makers should defer to proven scientific fact and stop the transmission of deadly lies.Dr. Mark Wainberg is director of the McGill University AIDS Centre at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. He was

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• Research Paper Presents Serosorting As More Dangerous

  Published: July 23, 2007, 1:53 pm

  Tags: Academia, Public Policy, Health Care, Mathematics, Science, Aids, Hiv

  Sullivan debate whether "AIDS is over" in an ongoing online hissy fit of battling blog posts, Mad Professah came across the results of a study which bolsters Rotello's argument that "sero-sorting" (the practice of sorting your sexual partners by HIV status and then having unprotected sex with people of the same status) is actually more

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• Controversy Over Rejected Trojan Condom Pig Ad

  Published: July 21, 2007, 11:03 am

  Tags: Sex, Health Care, Kulturkampf, Sexuality, Media, Aids, Hiv

  Well, here is the condom ad that was too controversial for network television! Decide for yourself.

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• HIV+ U.S. Soldier Charged With Assault With Deadly Weapon

  Published: July 20, 2007, 3:30 am

  Tags: Homophobia, Military, Public Policy, Aids, News Analysis, Hiv

  and director of the AIDS Legal Assistance Clinic, said she had never seen an HIV transmission case with the crime against nature charge.The military's "don't ask, don't tell" rule allows gays to serve if they keep their sexual orientation private and do not engage in homosexual acts. The law prohibits commanders from asking about a

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• The discovery of XDR-TB [Aetiology]

  Published: July 27, 2007, 4:15 pm

  Tags: Aids Hiv

  XDR-TB has been in the news quite a bit lately, largely thanks to Andrew Speaker's notoriety. Even though his TB was later re-classified as "just" multi-drug resistant (MDR-TB) instead of the initial extremely drug resistant (XDR) type, it did serve to raise awareness about the issues public health authorities face when dealing with something

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• Why are we so obessed with our 'own' children?

  Published: July 29, 2007, 2:04 pm

  Tags: British Medical Association Medical Ethics Committee, Reproductive Health Ethics, Surrogate Motherhood, Canada Bill C6, Aids Orphans

  countries struggle with AIDS orphans counting by the millions. Common sense would suggest that it should be easy enough to set many of them up with infertile couples in their own countries or elsewhere in order to bring prospective parents and already parentless kids together. Not so. In developed countries each year billions of $$ are being

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• "But Who's Gonna Give Us A Guy"? she asked.

  Published: July 26, 2007, 2:54 pm

  Tags: Aids, Seniors, Condoms

  the virus that causes AIDS. After the condom giveaway, free HIV testing was offered.AIDS education of the elderly has become an important issue as antiretroviral drugs that can keep patients living into their golden years changes the face of AIDS. Experts warn that ignorance about HIV among seniors can lead to new infections.And those

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• Armchair Cultural Studies: Why Do Straight Men Think That They're Gay Men?

  Published: July 31, 2007, 2:30 pm

  Tags: Armchair Cultural Studies, Jezebel, Mediabistro, The Aids, The Gays

  What do you get for $23 million? If you spent it on Mediabistro, you got delightful videos like this, in which a freelancer named Joel Silverstein pitches a story to Esquire articles editor David...

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• Marijuana may cause rare skin cancer

  Published: August 2, 2007, 5:00 am

  Tags: Aids, Cancer, Immune, Kaposi S, Marijuana, Medicinally, Patients, Recreationally, Research, Risk, Sarcoma, System, Tetrahydrocannabinol, Thc, Transplant, Weakened

  of developing this cancer, AIDS patients are transplant recipients are. It's the weakened immune system that puts some at risk for this disease. And these are the people who should discuss with their doctors the costs of using marijuana medicinally or recreationally.It may take only small doses of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) -- the ingredient

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• Bill Introduced To Lift U.S. Entry Ban on HIV+ People

  Published: August 7, 2007, 3:50 pm

  Tags: Immigration, California, Lgbt, Aids, Politics, Hiv

  U.S. Representative Barbara Lee (CA-9) has introduced a bill to lift the ban on HIV+ individuals from travelling or immigrating to the United States. The current ban was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1993. HR 3337 would repeal that ban and empower the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to review the ban and

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• A possible snapshot of a future farmstand

  Published: August 12, 2007, 6:47 am

  Tags: Genetically Modified Food, Visual Aids, Wired Magazine, Wiredmagazine

  Filed under: Science, Farming, Vegetables, Fruit, Magazines, On the BlogsI found this picture on the Ethicurean, which discovered it on the back page of Wired Magazine's July issue. It creates a pretty compelling visual image of what the food future could look like if scientists continue to walk down the path of major genetic modification. It's

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• Marital Aids: Do You Ever Feel Like You Need A Wife?

  Published: August 13, 2007, 2:40 pm

  Tags: Marital Aids

  We once had a boyfriend who was homeless and unemployed. (We know, we know.) When this boyfriend stayed with us, we'd come home to find the bed made, the dry-cleaning picked up and roses on the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Towleroad Guide to the Tube #160

  Published: August 13, 2007, 4:30 pm

  Tags: Aids Hiv, Chris Crocker, Election 2008, George W Bush, Hillary Clinton, News, Television, Towleroad Guide To The Tube, Van Hansis

  (source: slog) AIDS: The latest from Chris Crocker. VACATION: Clip from Fahrenheit 9/11. Bush on track to become the 'vacation president': "The presidential vacation-time record holder is the late Ronald Reagan, who tallied 436 days in his two terms. At 418 days, and with 17 months to go in his presidency, Bush is going to beat

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• Pricey PCAs and#8211; Stylish hearing aids not meant for your grandma

  Published: August 16, 2007, 1:38 am

  Tags: Icans, Earbuds, Phonak Group, Personal Communication Aids, Hearing Aids

  seen so many sexy hearing aids before such as the gold-plated iCans and the Shure’s sound-isolating SE420 earbuds but, the Personal Communication Aids (PCAs) from the Phonak Group in Switzerland stand out from the crowd. The most interesting thing is that these hearing aids are so small that they are barely visible. They work works

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