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  • I’M CLEAN AND WANT TO STAY THAT WAY: HIV+ FOR HIV+
  • Tackling poverty and disease with innovative health financing
  • Widespread 'Test-And-Treat' HIV Policies Could Increase Dangerous Drug Resistance
  • CHANGING MY MIND ON TREATMENT AS PREVENTION
  • Two Global Issues: Homophobia and Hatred!
  • Extra-couple HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa: a mathematical modelling study of survey data
  • CHEST RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT: ALTERNATIVES TO MONOGAMY: RECONSIDERING “COMMITMENT” IN SAME-SEX MALE RELATIONSHIPS
  • The Effect of Budget Sequestration on Global Health: Projecting the Human Impact in Fiscal Year 2013
  • No woman should die giving life
  • European HIV prevention webinar: The search for an HIV vaccine
  • GERMANY MAKES EUR 1 BILLION CONTRIBUTION TO THE GLOBAL FUND
  • Gambia: Malian Singer Extols the 'Breakthrough'
  • BHIVA and EAGA position statement on the use of antiretroviral therapy to reduce HIV transmission: January 2013
  • Inequality Is Holding Back the Recovery
  • High-risk drug practices tighten grip on London gay scene
  • Is Frequent Anal Sex Unsafe?
  • Obama, the President Who Ends AIDS
  • Anti-AIDS vaccine discovered in Barcelona hospital
  • Male Sex Workers Who Sell Sex to Men Also Engage in Anal Intercourse with Women: Evidence from Mombasa, Kenya
  • Uganda will not tolerate promotion of homosexuality
  • Economics of antiretroviral treatment vs. circumcision for HIV prevention
  • The Night Don Lemon Hugged Me
  • Major New U.S. AIDS Plan Disallows Funding for Family Planning
  • To Ugandan MPs: God does not discriminate among our family
  • UGANDA: Nnalongo Nakabuye, "Taking the drugs without food is taking yourself to the grave"
  • Women out loud: How women living with HIV will help the world end AIDS
  • A’s HIV epidemic ‘has stabilised’
  • Advocate Michael Ighodaro discusses HIV care for gay men in Nigeria, life after a feature story in WashPo, and how MSM living with HIV are organizing across Africa
  • Meeting the targets: Are we doing better in HIV than in TB?
  • Meeting the targets: Are we doing better in HIV than in TB?
  • Global Youth Forum: Final Declaration
  • An unhealthy obsession - stagnant funding at NIH via Nature
  • In marriage no such thing as rape, forced sex: Delhi court
  • Better Than A Condom? Discreet Nanofabric Protects Against Pregnancy and HIV
  • 'Real-world' evidence shows that antiretroviral therapy reduces risk of HIV transmission in heterosexual couples
  • Die Now: Gay Ugandans Protest in Paris
  • Aids drugs increase South African life expectancy by five years
  • Young, Gay, Black—and at Risk for HIV
  • Victim Narratives Pushing Women into the Margins: Sex, Pleasure and AIDS
  • A Global Plan to End AIDS Everywhere But at Home
  • KENYA: Rita, "I feel cheated of my right to decide whether to give birth or not"
  • World AIDS Day 2012: From Cleveland to Kigali: Why We Work for an AIDS-Free Generation
  • Over 3.5 million people in drought-hit areas of Africa to receive food relief from UN
  • Manhunt to Promote HIV Prevention Pill Truvada for World AIDS Day: 'A Choice When Condoms are in the Way...
  • Controversial HIV study begins in Montreal
  • UGANDA: Profiles of infidelity, HIV vulnerability
  • Zeroing in on AIDS and global health Post-2015
  • World AIDS Day 2012: Getting to the Beginning of the End
  • AVAC Statement on PEPFAR Blueprint
  • Desmond Tutu: Architecting the End of AIDS
  • AVAC Report Finds That World is Already Falling Behind Pace to End AIDS Epidemic; Five Essential Actions Needed in 2013 to Avoid Historic Missed Opportunity
  • South Africa: No Stop to HIV Infections Unless Gender Violence Addressed
  • Access to medicines from a health system perspective
  • Unlikely Model in H.I.V. Efforts: Sex Film Industry
  • KENYA: Study finds high acceptability, challenges with PrEP use
  • Is there Pride in being HIV Positive?
  • Huge differences in HIV mortality rates in US according to race, social and economic status
  • Young People are more afraid of pregnancy than STIs and HIV
  • Task Force to Kick Start Cairo Population Goals
  • La Mort Social d'un homosexuel dévoilé au Senegal
  • HIV Helps Explain Rise Of Anal Cancer in US Males
  • Kenya's Gay Community: From 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell to 'Do Ask, Do Tell'
  • Home HIV Testing: Good News but Not a Game Changer
  • Starting HIV treatment reduces the risk of serious non-AIDS-related diseases
  • Doctors grossly overprescribe medicines
  • From today, HIV treatment is free for all who need it in England
  • Insider Views of Collaborative R&D for Health: Q&A with Leslie Chan
  • Anal Sex: Science's Last Taboo
  • Africa: Why Investing in Africa's Youthful Population Can No Longer Wait
  • “Abstinence doesn’t work, so use condoms”: Critical responses to Christian youth sexualities and HIV prevention in Africa
  • The Nuts and Bolts of Implementing HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in Clinical Settings
  • Doctors who played God
  • Rescue and Rehabilitation: A Critical Analysis of Sex Workers' Antitrafficking Response in India
  • Malawi to overturn homosexual ban, Joyce Banda says
  • GLOBAL FUND ADOPTS NEW APPROACH TO FUNDING GRANTS
  • How to report science in local languages
  • Homophobia and Violence will not Prevent HIV: SAfAIDS Statement on violence on Sexual minorities in Zimbabwe
  • Groups to Global Fund, PEPFAR: Support switch from toxic treatment
  • Transitioning of Care and Other Services for Adolescents Living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Transgender people no longer considered "mentally ill" to American Psychiatric Association
  • Project ARM: Addressing HIV prevention needs of those practicing anal sex
  • Preexposure Prophylaxis for HIV — Where Do We Go from Here?
  • Battling on Behalf of Gay, Lesbians and Other Sexual Minorities: A Frontline Experience from Uganda
  • HIV/AIDS: Growing old with HIV
  • Trading Away Health: How the U.S.’s Intellectual Property Demands for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Threaten Access to Medicines
  • Confiscation of condoms from sex workers compromises public health
  • MSM Able to Use Home HIV Tests to Screen Sex Partners and Lower Risk
  • More work needs to be done on HIV
  • Repeal Bad Laws To Win Fight Against Aids
  • Only Stronger U.S. Leadership Can End the AIDS Epidemic
  • HIV prevention drug brings opportunities and challenges
  • Gay in Zambia
  • Good Governance from Villages to Parliaments: What Global Health Needs Now
  • Back of the Line - report on black gay men in the US and HIV
  • The right to know: women’s choices, Depo-Provera and HIV
  • HIV in Italy: the epidemic continues growing among women
  • Tutu calls for end to gay stigma to help tackle HIV
  • Homophobia hinders AIDS fight
  • Aids breakthrough as study says treatment should cost less
  • Follow the Science to the End of the AIDS Epidemic
  • HIV in Men Who Have Sex with Men
  • Women-Loving-Women in Africa and Asia - Research Report
  • AIDS deaths worldwide drop as access to drugs improves
  • FDA Approves First Medication to Reduce HIV Risk
  • Contraception and development - Choice not chance
  • Preexposure Prophylaxis for HIV Infection among African Women
  • Sub-Optimal Vitamin B-12 Levels among ART-Naïve HIV-Positive Individuals in an Urban Cohort in Uganda
  • South African Activist Beheaded
  • Looking at the way forward in implementing the expected outcomes of the Conference
  • Active injecting drug users must be provided with adherence support when they start HIV therapy
  • NIH study finds HIV-positive young men at risk of low bone mass
  • Obama at LGBT pride reception: 'Together, we’ve stood resolute; unwavering in our commitment to advance this movement' Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2012/06/obama-at-lgbt-pride-reception-together-weve-stood-resolute-unwav
  • If people who need HIV drugs aren’t getting them now, why should the prevention benefit of treatment be the reason that the drugs become available?
  • LGBT meeting in Cameroon turns bloody as gay-bashers invade
  • Obama Was Pushed by Drug Industry, E-Mails Suggest
  • Bangladesh Braces for HIV Epidemic
  • The "Best Hope" for AIDS Vaccine Advocacy
  • What's the deal with the female condom?
  • Sh42bHIV/Aids money uncollected as millions suffer
  • Child rights, right to water and sanitation, and human security
  • FDA Panel Recommends First Drug for HIV Prevention
  • Reduced glycerin formulation of tenofovir vaginal gel safe for rectal use
  • F.D.A. Advisory Panel Backs Preventive Use of H.I.V. Drug
  • FDA panel backs first pill to block HIV infection
  • HIV/AIDS: Global Fund will have US$1.6 billion more
  • FDA Panel Considers HIV Drug For New Use
  • Changing face of AIDS
  • Bridging international law and rights-based litigation: Mapping health-related rights through the development of the Global Health and Human Rights Database
  • Knowing your HIV/AIDS epidemic and tailoring an effective response: how did India do it?
  • Analysis: Latest coup another setback for Guinea-Bissau
  • New Zealand's National Health and Disability Advocacy Service: A successful model of advocacy
  • CONFERENCE TO URGE AFRICAN LEADERS TO PROMOTE SAFE ANAL SEX
  • Local organizations’ critical role in the provision of reproductive health care during disaster response
  • Being Tolerant Is African, Too!
  • US reveals nearly $1.5 billion in unspent AIDS money
  • [COMMENTARY] Why Economists Are Jumping on the Jim Kim-Bashing Bandwagon
  • AHF’s Michael Weinstein is having another bad day #HIV #AIDS
  • Caring, Romantic American Boys
  • Anti-gay group in Liberia issues hit list, threatens to ‘get to them one by one’
  • Odd Blood: Serodiscordancy, or, Life With an HIV-Positive Partner
  • Why cutting PEPFAR is bad policy
  • New Human Rights Principles launched at UN, Geneva
  • Testing an Injection for HIV Prevention
  • Fund to fight key diseases running low
  • Resentment Toward the West Bolsters Uganda’s New Anti-Gay Bill
  • Universal Health Care: A Moral Obligation? February 15, 2012
  • The UN’s Gag Order on Reproductive Health
  • Comment: Bangladesh’s invisible minority
  • Malaria Drug Breakthrough Made
  • They Will Say We Are Not Here
  • Former South African president Mbeki slams 'kill the gays' bill
  • Gay "honor killing" movie shakes Turkey up
  • The Crime of Being Gay (and Having to Hide It)
  • Financial Crisis May Kill in Congo as Global Health Aid Stalls
  • 10 Global Health Achievements in 2011
  • ICASA 2011: Bush calls for a review HIV budget allocation for Africa
  • Does a pill a day keep HIV away?
  • The goal of an AIDS-free generation: The time to invest in science is now
  • Ugandan gay activist wins RFK Human Rights Award
  • Cameron threat to dock some UK aid to anti-gay nations
  • Planification familiale : rendez-vous à Dakar pour réfléchir sur un monde de sept milliards d’habitants
  • Nigeria : la police s'attaque à "une usine à bébés"
  • Investing in rural women will slash hunger and poverty, Ban says
  • Protect Life Act: New Bill Would Allow Hospitals To Refuse To Perform Abortions
  • Born This Way
  • Sida : la contraception hormonale multiplierait par deux le risque d’infection
  • Taux de mortalité maternelle encore élevé au Sénégal : Cinq femmes meurent par jour des suites d’une grossesse ou d’un accouchement
  • Boosting women’s political participation vital for democracy, UN forum stresses
  • Substantial drop in child mortality around the globe, UN figures reveal
  • Rep. Brad Miller Signs On To DOMA Repeal After North Carolina Pushes Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment
  • Ouganda: Les Etats-Unis maintiennent la pression contre le projet de loi anti-gay
  • Le Royaume-Uni inaugure une association internationale pour les droits LGBT
  • As global population nears 7 billion, UN capitalizes on new opportunities
  • La Fifa ouvre une enquête sur une coach nigériane accusée de lesbophobie
  • Cameroun: Deux homos arrêtés après avoir été piégés sur internet
  • UN meeting calls for secure supply of contraceptives in developing countries
  • UN official urges Mozambique to strengthen HIV/AIDS prevention programmes
  • Fewer newborns dying worldwide but progress too slow, say UN and partners
  • Football star and UN envoy Marta spotlights efforts to empower Sierra Leone’s women
  • UN official welcomes Sudan’s pardon of journalists prosecuted for reporting on rape
  • World’s top tennis player tapped by UN to promote child rights in native Serbia
  • UN official voices concern over reports of rape of Somali women fleeing famine
  • Rapists, not reporters, must face criminal charges in Sudan, says UN envoy
  • L'État de New York approuve le mariage homosexuel
  • Gender Bias Fought At Egalia Preschool In Stockholm, Sweden
  • « Pendant 5 ans mon propre père couchait avec moi»
  • [ Reportage ] Marrakech capitale du sexe... tarifié
  • Droit d'asile : Abdou, un jeune homosexuel sénégalais, peut rester en France...
  • UN chief urges societies to empower widows to play meaningful role in society
  • Le démographe et le politique
  • Women in the Arab Spring: The other side of the story
  • Africa’s children deserve more protective environments, UNICEF says
  • UN Human Rights Council endorses principles to ensure businesses respect human rights
  • Investing in fight against poverty brings results, General Assembly hears
  • From the Field: One man's efforts to help girls' education in Burkina Faso
  • For better, for worse: Malaysian wives taught to be ‘obedient prostitutes’
  • World leaders launch plan to eliminate new HIV infections among children by 2015
  • Global AIDS response continues to show results as a record number of people access treatment and rates of new HIV infections fall by nearly 25%
  • In Africa, UN chief spotlights progress in improving women’s and children’s health
  • La prostitution Gay pollue Dakar
  • Une pilule pour ne plus avoir ses règles... dangereux?
  • Stigmatisation et discrimination : Des séropositifs racontent leur quotidien
  • A famous royal hat to benefit UN efforts to assist children in need
  • Sixteen countries pledge support for UN initiative to reduce maternal mortality
  • L’homophobie explose sur Internet et dans les lieux publics
  • 952 personnes vivent avec le Sida à Louga
  • Internet et les lieux publics, «nouvelles forteresses» de l'homophobie
  • Etats-Unis: l'Eglise presbytérienne autorise l'ordination de prêtres gays
  • UN report outlines benefits of empowering women and youth in poor countries
  • USA: un couple gay binational échappe (pour l'instant) à la séparation
  • Ziarra annuel à Tivaouane: Serigne Mansour Sy appelle à la lapidation des homosexuels
  • UN chief urges men to champion the cause for gender equality
  • On World Health Day, UN urges action against worsening drug resistance
  • SIDA : 30 ans de lutte et de recherche
  • Le Sénat vote la procréation médicalement assistée pour les lesbiennes
  • Innovative project in Tanzania places young people at the centre of HIV responses
  • Business sector can play key role in the AIDS response in Africa
  • Improving access to quality and affordable drugs in Africa: The role of the International Conference on Local Pharmaceutical Production in Africa and the launch of the Southern African Generic Medicines Association
  • Ban calls on universities to play role in promoting women’s empowerment
  • L'homosexualité, «un facteur de risque pour le VIH» selon Nora Berra
  • Sidaction: «Les donneurs sont au rendez-vous»
  • UN envoy on sexual violence welcomes African commitment to eradicating the vice
  • Une déclaration pour la dépénalisation de l'homosexualité présentée à Genève
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