Category Archives: News

Less than 1 in 2 HIV-Positive U.S. Residents Are in Regular Care

Posted on February 8, 2012 by The Updater

by Tim Horn Less than half of people living with HIV in the United States are being retained in ongoing medical care, according to a new analysis by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigators published online ahead … Continue reading →

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Two Major Anti-AIDS Initiatives Launched At WEF Davos To Eradicate New HIV Infection in Children Within Four Years

Posted on January 31, 2012 by The Updater

DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Two groundbreaking initiatives, aimed at realistically achieving the once-unthinkable goal of ending new HIV infections among children by the end of 2015, were launched simultaneously at the World Economic Forum’s Annual … Continue reading →

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AIDS The 30 Years War presented by “Bristol Myers Squibb”

Posted on December 14, 2011 by The Updater

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President Obama Renews Commitment to Domestic HIV/AIDS Funding 

Posted on December 4, 2011 by The Updater

Obama Administration announces $50 million in New Resources for Ryan White Programs  Thirty years after the first reported cases of HIV/AIDS, today, World AIDS Day, we take time to pause and remember those that we have lost in the fight against … Continue reading →

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Doctors claim to have “functional cure” for HIV

Posted on November 5, 2011 by The Updater

(CBS News) Thirty years ago from Sunday, the Centers for Disease Control issued the first report on the emerging AIDS epidemic. Now, after years of progress in holding back the disease, there is finally an apparent case of one successful … Continue reading →

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HIV & The Law

Posted on July 14, 2011 by The Updater

Last month NAPWA reported a case making its way through the courts of the Province of Ontario. Johnson Aziga, found by the trial court to have known he was HIV-positive when he slept with multiple women, two of whom later … Continue reading →

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30 Things to Know on the 30th Anniversary of AIDS

Posted on June 11, 2011 by The Updater

Sunday morning marked the 30th anniversary of the first reported cases of a terrible disease–a disease that came to be known as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or “AIDS.” I woke with a strange feeling in my heart caused by a mix … Continue reading →

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