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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

  As Gabriel Rotello and Andrew 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

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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

  against nature" as well as public health laws which "mandate certain control measures for HIV+ people."Specificially,[Maj. Tom Earnhardt, an 82nd Airborne spokesperson] said soldiers in the 82nd Airborne take an annual HIV test. He told The Associated Press that Dalton was ordered by his commander in November not to have unprotected sex after a

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• L.A. Times Covers Plight Of Same-Sex Binational Couples

  Published: July 17, 2007, 12:46 pm

  Tags: Immigration, Public Policy, Gay Rights, Lgbt, Media, News Analysis, Marriage

  networking and greater public outreach on the issue.The biggest push is in support of federal legislation by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-New York) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) to allow Americans in a same-sex relationship to sponsor their "permanent partners" for legal residency in the United States. The Uniting American Families Act, which

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• The Algebra Project on PBS Tonight

  Published: July 13, 2007, 4:29 pm

  Tags: Education, Academia, Public Policy, Mathematics, Algebra, Television, Social Justice

  public television show Now will be airing a segment tonight on The Algebra Project, a non-profit group who is trying to improve the teaching of elementary and high school algebra in low-income and minority schools throughout America. Mad Professah met the founder of the group, Bob Moses, at a Math and Social Justice conference in Brooklyn, NY

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• WTF? Seriously, What Is He Saying?

  Published: July 26, 2007, 11:10 pm

  Tags: Public Policy

  "Given the increasingly important role of the Internet in education and commerce, it differs from other media like TV and cable because parents cannot prevent their children from using the Internet altogether," Sen. Stevens said. "The headlines continue to tell us of children who are victimized online. While the issues are

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• The NYTimes Admits Price Controls are Bad

  Published: August 3, 2007, 11:17 am

  Tags: Public Policy

  The NYTimes notices the developing crisis in Zimbabwe, observing that the economy ground to a halt a long time ago and has been receding ever since meaning people don’t have jobs, money, food, or gasoline. What I could not help but notice is that the Grey Lady admits that managed economies are bad. "Robert G. Mugabe has ruled

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• Are Greenland's Glaciers Growing and Temperatures Cooling?

  Published: August 10, 2007, 11:21 am

  Tags: Environment, Global Warming, Weather, Al Gore, Science Public Policy Institute

  Monday by the Science and Public Policy Institute stated that not only have temperatures been declining in Greenland in recent years, but also glaciers have actually expanded a bit (emphasis added): The Greenland ice sheet would appear to have experienced no net loss of mass over the last decade for which data are available. Quite to the

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• Blue Angels Still Welcome in SF

  Published: August 15, 2007, 11:37 am

  Tags: Public Policy

  Francisco, banned ROTC in public schools, and wanted to ban military recruiters (through a non-binding voter proposition sponsored by activist groups on the last ballot) only to back down when they learned the Federal government really could, and would, shut off federal funding for SF’s public schools as a result. In Chris Daly’s

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• A downside to diversity?

  Published: August 19, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Public Policy

  There is both good news and bad news to report if you care about the value of diversity. First, the bad news: a study conducted by Harvard Professor Robert Putnum finds that diverse commjunities can lead to an increase in social distrust. As Daniel Henniger of the Wall Street Journal explains: Robert Putnam, the Harvard don who in the

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• More Reports and Research On Uncircumsized Men and HIV

  Published: August 21, 2007, 6:39 pm

  Tags: News, Research, Public Policy, Health Care, Uncut, Circumcision, Science, Aids, Hiv

  University Institute of Public Health and colleagues examined 2,552 uncircumcised, HIV-negative men ages 15 to 29 in the Rakai district of Uganda. Eighty-three percent of the participants said they washed their penises with all sex partners, the Times reports. The researchers asked the men when and how they washed their penises -- including

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• Nigeria and HIV testing

  Published: August 22, 2007, 10:06 am

  Tags: Public Policy

  against imposing such a policy, explaining that it wants HIV testing to be voluntary and personal.The BBC reports the Nigerian government is investigating whether Covenant University, owned by the Pentecostal Living Faith Church of Nigeria, requires graduates to take an HIV test:Nigeria's AIDS control agency says the new policy is illegal.

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• Iowa Gay Male Couple Gets Married Before Marriage Ruling Stayed

  Published: September 1, 2007, 2:23 pm

  Tags: Law, News, Public Policy, Iowa, Gay Rights, Lgbt, Marriage

  TowleRoad has pictures of a Iowa's first married, gay male couple, Tim McQuillan, 24 (left), and Sean Fritz, 21 (right), both Iowa State University students. They were able to apply for a marriage licence, pay $5 to waive the 3-day waiting period, receive the licence and appear before a Unitarian Universalist minister to have it solemnized in the

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• One Citizen, One Vote

  Published: September 6, 2007, 12:24 pm

  Tags: Public Policy

  53 districts, 22 voted Republican in the last national election. There’s nothing partisan about the initiative, said Kevin Eckery, a spokesman for Citizens for Equal Representation, a group run out of Hiltachk’s law office."The issue isn’t Democratic or Republican, the issue is whether this initiative better

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• D.C.'s Free Condoms Found To Be Cheap and Shoddy

  Published: September 7, 2007, 12:25 pm

  Tags: Public Policy, Health Care, Condoms, Aids, Hiv

  Mad Professah has been reporting about the free condoms distributed by cities like New York ("Who's Having More Sex? Angelenos or New Yorkers?") and Washington, D.C. for quite awhile now.This week comes word that all is not well with the free D.C. condoms. NO, they're not too small for denizens of "The Chocolate City." (Well, maybe for some of

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• Company Donating 350,000 Trojan condoms to D.C.

  Published: September 13, 2007, 3:46 pm

  Tags: Public Policy, Condoms, African American, Race, Aids, Hiv

  The ongoing saga with Washington, D.C.'s free condom giveaway that Mad Professah has been following for months appears to be continuing. Yesterday's Washington Post is reporting that Church and Dwight, the manufacturer of Trojan BrandTM condoms, is donating 350, 000 condoms to Washington, D.C. to replace the "shoddy" Chinese-made prophylactics the

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