Feb 4, 2013
Xinhua
Kenya's health officials said HIV/ AIDS exposed infants have reduced from 27 percent in 2007 to 14.9 percent in 2011, due to increased uptake of elimination of mother to child transmission (EMTCT) and voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) services.
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Feb 4, 2013
Futurity
Given within four months of infection, HIV antiretroviral therapy helps the immune system restore T-cells to healthy levels.
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Feb 4, 2013
Fox News Latino
A rise in AIDS cases in New York City’s immigrant community has prompted city officials to call it a “public health failure.”
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Feb 4, 2013
EGPAF
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) congratulates U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the end of her tenure as the 67th Secretary of State of the United States.
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Jan 15, 2013
The Post-Journal
The human immunodeficiency virus may not be viewed as the major threat that it once was, but testing is still as important as it ever was.
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Jan 8, 2013
The Globe and Mail
It was after dark about two years ago when midwife Jay MacGillivray got a phone call from staff at St. Michael's Hospital, where she works, asking her to help care for an HIV-positive patient who had just arrived and was in labour.
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Dec 11, 2012
The Hill
After more than three decades of the AIDS epidemic, today we are talking about the end of AIDS – in our lifetimes.
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Dec 11, 2012
EGPAF
What do today’s college students in the U.S. think about HIV? What do they know about the global epidemic?
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Dec 11, 2012
Bay Area Reporter
The number of new HIV infections in the United States remains relatively stable, standing at about 50,000 people annually.
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Nov 26, 2012
AllAfrica.com
LAST year's World Aids Day campaign theme was centred on Getting to zero AIDS-related deaths, zero new infections and zero discrimination.
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Oct 2, 2012
The Huffington Post
When I became Secretary of State, I asked our diplomats and development experts: "How can we do better?" I could see our strengths, including tens of thousands of public servants who get up every day thinking about how to advance America's interests and promote our values around the world.
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Sep 26, 2012
Jason Beaubien, NPR
A large children's hospital in Durban, South Africa, is being rebuilt two decades after it closed owing to apartheid. It opened in 1931 as a facility for all races, but racial tensions in the 1980s forced its closure.
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Sep 26, 2012
The Huffington Post
It's fall in Washington, the time when global health advocates usually make a final push to address critical health initiatives in the dwindling days of the Congressional session.
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Sep 25, 2012
Mashable
Can mobile phones help eliminate pediatric AIDS? “No,” said Josh Nesbit, CEO of Medic Mobile, not on its own. But it turns out the people who have those mobile devices, Nesbit said, definitely can.
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Sep 25, 2012
Government Executive
Working with the Partnership for Public Service, we have the privilege of profiling the 2012 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals (a.k.a. the SAMMIES) winners over the next several weeks. We will not only tell their incredible stories of determination and, in many cases, life-changing achievements – but we’ll also be pulling out key leadership and management tips with a few lessons learned that can be modeled across agencies.
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Sep 24, 2012
USAID
America’s legacy in child survival is a proud one: With strong bipartisan support, U.S. support of global health has saved many millions of lives.
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Aug 24, 2012
Voice of America
Barbara Klein and Mario Ritter report on the nineteenth International AIDS Conference and some of the latest developments in the fight against AIDS and HIV.
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Jul 26, 2012
For the first time since 1990, the International AIDS Conference is being held in the United States.
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Jul 26, 2012
Philanthropist and AIDS prevention advocate Bill Gates said on Monday there had been significant advances in the fight against HIV/AIDS, but he was not ready to say the world was "turning the tide" on the disease, the theme of this week's International AIDS Conference.
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Jul 25, 2012
Some of Washington's most powerful people delivered to the 19th International AIDS Conference pretty much the same message: Fighting AIDS is a good investment that is getting better every year, but current spending isn't enough to end the epidemic.
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