December 2011
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Boston AIDS Official Guilty of Embezzling Over...
Valerie Tebbetts, a former executive director for Boston Living Center, an HIV/AIDS nonprofit organization, recently pleaded guilty to charges of embezzling more than $100,000 from the center. Tebbetts pleaded guilty to three counts of larceny and one count of making false entries in corporate books. She was sentenced to five years of probation. Tebbetts said a gambling problem led to her ...
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Animal Studies Suggest Anti-Reservoir Drugs May...
Drugs targeting HIV reservoirs in the body may result in spontaneous control of viral replication, in the absence of antiretroviral (ARV) therapy, according to a new study involving 18 monkeys conducted by Andrea Savarino, MD, PhD, of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome and his colleagues. The new findings, among the most noteworthy at an HIV eradication conference recently held in St....
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Obama Administration Seeks Jobs for People With...
The Obama administration is instituting an affirmative action rule that would require federal contractors to hit a hiring goal of 7 percent for workers with disabilities, including people with HIV. Currently, the unemployment rate among workers with disabilities is 13 percent, one and a half times the rate for the general population. Though the Americans with Disabilities Act forbids ...
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Join the conversation about the National HIV/AIDS... →
roadtoaids2012:
The Road to AIDS 2012 is an effort to engage community members and Federal and local government officials in a conversation on how to best address HIV/AIDS. Your participation in this survey adds to that conversation.
It will take approximately 10 to 15 minutes to complete. The survey has multiple choice and open ended questions. Please be brief with your answers to open ended...
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HIV Stigma Among Gay Men Remains Widespread
“Stigmatization of HIV-positive gay men appears to be extensive and wide-ranging.” That’s the conclusion of a recent review published in the journal AIDS Care. The review, which looked at English-language, peer-reviewed articles, revealed a growing division between HIV-positive and HIV-negative gay men, and it found a fragmentation of gay communities based along the lines of perceived or...
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Obama Seeks Decriminalization of Homosexuality...
The Obama administration announced that the United States would use all the American diplomacy at its disposal, including foreign aid, to promote gay rights around the world. In a memorandum issued by President Obama and in a speech by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the administration vowed to actively combat efforts by other nations to criminalize homosexual conduct, to abuse gay,...
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Microsoft Email Spam Filters Help Search for HIV...
Microsoft researchers are using the same principles they employed to build email spam filters to help find an HIV vaccine. One of the greatest challenges to fighting HIV is that it is constantly mutating. This makes it difficult for researchers to accurately analyze the virus, which they must do to develop vaccines that target its weak points. Now a team at Microsoft Research is using a...
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Supreme Court to Hear Privacy Case of HIV-Positive...
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a lawsuit by an HIV-positive pilot who is suing the federal government for damages over losing his license to fly, National Public Radio (NPR) reports. Stanmore Cooper is suing for emotional distress caused by the government’s violation of the Privacy Act. The government admits it violated the act when the Social Security Administration passed along...
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Questions Toward a Cure
What expectations do you have, and risks are you willing to take, when faced with the option of participating in clinical trials of therapies that might help develop a cure? These are essential questions community advocates are looking to answer as they begin working with researchers and regulatory agencies like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the development of ethical human...
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Puerto Rico’s lawmakers to exclude LGBTQ persons... →
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The Puerto Rican Senate has approved an amendment to the island’s penal code that would strip protections for LGBTQ persons in the hate crime statues.
LGBTQ persons were not the only affected group of citizens as lawmakers also voted to remove protections for ethnicity and religious beliefs as well. The lower house is expected to vote on the amended penal code that would...
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1 in 11 Gay Men in London Have HIV
The number of people with HIV in the United Kingdom has reached about 91,500, according to the Health Protection Agency (HPA). HPA estimates that a quarter of them are unaware of their status and that nearly 100,000 people in the United Kingdom may be living with the virus by the end of 2011. In addition, statistics show that one in 20 gay men in the country are HIV positive, increasing to one in...
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National HIV Awareness Month to Launch July 2012
The Coalition for National HIV Awareness Month has established July 2012 as National HIV Awareness Month to re-ignite a national discourse on the domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic, according to a coalition statement. The coalition also hopes the awareness month will help create broad-scale public awareness of HIV/AIDS, end HIV stigma and discrimination and engage new stakeholders in the fight against the...
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1 in 20 Dentists in Los Angeles Will Not Treat...
A new Williams Institute study has found that many HIV-positive people still face routine discrimination when accessing dental care. The study surveyed 612 dentist offices throughout Los Angeles County and found that 5 percent of all dental providers have a blanket policy of refusing services to HIV-positive individuals, with many claiming they lacked the necessary extra infection control...
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Stay Connected
Hey guys, we’ve gotten some questions on how best to follow all the World AIDS Day coverage. You can follow it:
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