December 2010
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The POZ 100: Some of the bravest, most dogged and...
This past year was a banner one for waging war on AIDS in America. President Obama staffed up the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA), reopened the Office of National AIDS Policy and invited several hundred people (many of them living with HIV) to the White House to celebrate the launch of a National HIV/AIDS Strategy. Needle exchange was approved—as was the Affordable Care Act...
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Berlin Patient Follow-Up 'Strongly Suggests' HIV...
Editor’s note: Soon after the original article was posted to AIDSmeds and POZ, the editorial staff discovered that the long-anonymous Berlin Patient has come forward, according to the December 9 issue of stern, a German magazine. He is 44-year-old Timothy Ray Brown. The “Berlin Patient”—a man living with HIV who underwent a transplant involving HIV-resistant stem cells in 2007 for the...