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Remembering the Super Bug of 2005

On February 5, 2005, the New York City Department of Health in conjunction with the Aaron Diamond Aids Research Center called a press conference and issued an urgent health alert to the public. The event was especially targeted towards men who have sex with men. According to health officials, one individual had been infected with what appeared to be a never before seen particularly potent and apparently mutated strain of HIV that had rapidly progressed to full blown AIDS.

New York AIDS Walk expected to draw thousands :: EDGE New York City

In its 23 years, the walk has grown from an event that raised $710,000 from 4,500 walkers in 1986 to the largest AIDS fundraising events in the world last year with 45,000 participants who raised an estimated $6.8 million. It has raised roughly $98 million throughout its history to help fund vital health and social services to those living with the virus.

IRIN humanitarian news: Less silence, more science could make anal sex safer

NEW DELHI, 27 February 2008 (PlusNews) - The silence and taboo surrounding anal sex is putting millions of men and women at risk of HIV, delegates attending the fourth international microbicides conference in New Delhi, India, heard this week.

Warning Is Sent to AIDS Vaccine Volunteers

AIDS researchers have begun warning hundreds of volunteers that a highly touted experimental vaccine they received in recent months might make them more, not less, likely to contract HIV in the midst of one of the world's most rampant epidemics.

Black clergy, activists, join forces to stop AIDS :: EDGE New York City

. The ministers pledged to promote awareness and testing. They also sought to promote the physical, mental and spiritual needs of those affected by AIDS. "We are in crisis mode," Bishop T.D. Jakes said. "Our focus right now is saving lives. We can save souls later."

'Aids drugs' flood black market: Africa: Zimbabwe: News24

Harare - Aids drugs - some of them contaminated, diluted or faked - are being sold at flea markets and hairdressing salons in the face of growing shortages in clinics linked to Zimbabwe's economic crisis, says the health ministry.

17 Babies, 5 Adults Infected with HIV

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- Seventeen babies and five adults have contracted HIV through infected blood transfusions in Kyrgyzstan, a senior health official said Friday.

Inteligenta Indiĝena Indigenismo Novaĵoservo: allAfrica.com: Faulty Zalatex Condoms Recalled (Pag

"The health department yesterday recalled all condoms supplied by Zalatex, after concerns about the quality of its products. Zalatex supplies condoms produced by Latex Surgical Products (LSP), and was alleged to have bribed an official at the South African Bureau of Standards to approve condoms that had failed to meet quality criteria.

Arafat died of AIDS, confirms Palestinian leader

Arafat died of AIDS, confirms Palestinian leader: "A leading Palestinian resistance figure has confirmed what many suspected all along: Yasser Arafat died of AIDS.

A New Sorrow for Afghanistan: AIDS Joins List

H.I.V. and AIDS have quietly arrived in this land of a thousand calamities. They remain almost completely underground, shrouded in ignorance and stigma as the government struggles with the help of American and NATO forces to rebuild the country in the face of a new offensive by Taliban insurgents.

Six Resentenced to Death in Libyan AIDS Case

Five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor have been charged with the death sentence on claims of infecting 426 Libyan children with the AIDS virus, though independent researchers have stated the infection probably occured before their arrival due to poor hygiene in the hospitals. http://www.nestesami.bg/main/home.php?lang=_en

Libya Sentences 6 to Die in H.I.V. Case

PARIS, Dec. 19 A Libyan court on Tuesday again sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to be shot by a firing squad for deliberately infecting more than 400 children with H.I.V., more than 50 of whom have died. The decision complicates Libya s efforts to improve relations with the West.

Pope May Okay Condoms in Fight Against AIDs

Via RawStory: Catholics Prepare to Get Their Groove On: The study's contents are secret but it is believed that it urges a subtle but important change of tack. Condom use will be permitted if a man with HIV insists on having sex with his non-infected wife, as a "lesser evil".

AIDS in India

Did you know that families in India "often disown their HIV-positive family members"? Or that children with AIDS could be kicked out of schools and/or orphanages? Or that people may be denied housing by landlords if they have AIDS?

swaziland's AIDS orphans exploited for cheap labour