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WHO Report Highlights Gender Disparities, Cites AIDS as Leading Cause of Women's Deaths
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, disease, health, risks, WHO, HIV, healthcare )

Tierney
- 16 days ago - nationalpartnership.org
November 11, 2009 -- Women around the world are "denied a chance to develop their full human potential" because of a lack of essential health care throughout their lives, according to a World Health Organization report released Monday, Reuters report
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New HIV Strain Discovered in Woman From Cameroon
Health & Wellness  (tags: hiv, women, disease, warning, health, risks )

Lone
- 120 days ago - washingtonpost.com
WASHINGTON -- A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the three known strains of human immunodeficiency virus and appears to be closely related to a form of simian
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HIV Vaccine Awareness Day May 18
Health & Wellness  (tags: research, HIV, AIDS, Vaccine, disease, humans, protection, treatment )

Bill
- 199 days ago - nih.gov
People continue to become infected with HIV at an alarming rate. An estimated 2.7 million new HIV infections occurred worldwide in 2007 alone. Here in the United States, about 56,000 new HIV infections occur annually --
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ON THIS DAY - 1984: Scientist Finds Aids Virus
Health & Wellness  (tags: on this day, aids, hiv, virus, scientist, discovery, usa, america, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome )

Chrissy
- 220 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The discovery of a virus which may cause Aids, the fatal disease sweeping through America, has been hailed as a "monumental breakthrough" in medical research. The development was announced in Washington by US Health Secretary Margaret Heckler.
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GLOBAL: TB and HIV Co-Infection Crisis a Bigger Threat
Health & Wellness  (tags: TB, HIV, co-infection, tuberculosis, africa, study, treatment, warning, risks, medicine, humans, death, government )

Madalena
- 248 days ago - plusnews.org
(PlusNews) - One in four tuberculosis (TB) deaths in the world is HIV-related, twice as many as previously thought, according to a new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The Global TB Control report, released on 24 March, World TB Day, not
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National Native HIV/AIDS
Health & Wellness  (tags: Indians, Native Americans, American Indians, HIV, AIDS, culture, society, ethics, humans, interesting, news, education, freedoms, rights, Body-Mind-Spirit, disease, health, healthcare, illness, prevention, protection, safety, research )

Kat
- 262 days ago - nnaapc.org
The four seasons are highly respected in many cultures because they so closely represent the cycle of life. Spring represents a time of equality and balance. It is a time of profound change, new beginnings and birth. For these reasons, spring was chosen..
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Continue Funding for People Living With H.I.V./A.I.D.S - The Petition Site
Health & Wellness  (tags: HIV, AIDS, funding, Congress, research, study, warning, treatment, medicine )

Tj
- 296 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Please join me in asking Congress to Re-authorize the Ryan White (CARE) Act, and to fund more research on finding a cure
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Cellular 'Bullets' Destroy HIV, Raise Vaccine Possibilities
Health & Wellness  (tags: hiv, Aids, health, disease, Body-Mind-Spirit )

Jollygirl
- 348 days ago - blog.wired.com
Researchers have uncovered the mechanisms used by a type of white blood cell to destroy HIV-infected cells. If a vaccine could program cells to do this, it could protect people from AIDS.
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Can AIDS Epidemic Be Stopped?
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, disease, AIDS, HIV, research, prevention, treatment, study, interesting, news )

Maria
- 363 days ago - efluxmedia.com
How to manage the HIV epidemic is a question that appears to be more frequent than ever nowadays. More and more people get infected with the disastrous condition, especially in the sub-Saharan Africa. The HIV virus has killed 25 million since it was first
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Bone Marrow 'Cure' for HIV
Health & Wellness  (tags: disease, HIV, AIDS, CURE )

HEAVENLY
- 382 days ago - news.uk.msn.com
Doctors claim they have effectively been able to remove a patient's HIV infection by giving him a bone marrow transplant for the leukaemia from which he was also suffering.
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Bone Marrow 'Cures Aids Patient' - Germany
Health & Wellness  (tags: germany, aids, hiv, patient, cure, doctors, transplant )

Chrissy
- 382 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Doctors in Germany say a patient appears to have been cured of Aids by a bone marrow transplant from a donor who had a genetic resistance to HIV. The researchers in Berlin said the man, who suffered from leukaemia and Aids, had shown no sign of either
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Women Won't Wait: End HIV and Violence Against Women
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, treatment, prevention, violence, HIV, AIDS )

Julia
- 626 days ago - care2.com
Women Won't Wait (WWW) is a global campaign by organizations and networks from the global North and South, that addresses the intersection between HIVand AIDS and violence against women. The Campaign recently marked its first anniversary.
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Foreign Donors Back Away From Indonesia AIDS Fight
Health & Wellness  (tags: hiv, aids, risks, prevention, ethics, support )

Julia
- 628 days ago - in.reuters.com
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Foreign donors who have propped up Indonesia's fight against AIDS/HIV are poised to slash their funding programs, partly because they now consider Indonesia a middle-income country, officials said on Wednesday.
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CDC Warns of Safety Problems at Clinics
Health & Wellness  (tags: Hepatitis C, health, CDC, center for disease control, nevada, disease, healthcare, news, protection, safety, warning, medicine, HIV, Hepatitis B, clinic, Nevada, USA )

Dr Kathi
- 635 days ago - abcnews.go.com
"CDC Head: Problems With Hepatitis C at Nevada Clinic Could Be 'Tip of Iceberg'".... Requesting that patients get tested for HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B. As many as 40,000 patients to this clinic in Nevada may have been exposed.
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HIV/AIDS ACTION - Help Change the Abstinence Restriction
Health & Wellness  (tags: government, healthcare, illness, HIV, AIDS, budget, education, prevention )

Lauren
- 651 days ago - my.care.org
While U.S. leadership on HIV/AIDS has been admirable, current law includes an arbitrary requirement mandating that at least one-third of U.S. HIV prevention funding be used for abstinence-until-marriage programming.
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