| October 5, 2007 | - Studies found that nearly two-thirds of HIV-positive patients in the United States are overweight or obese. “It would be very sad to survive HIV,” said an epidemiologist, “and die of something else that was preventable.”
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Local6
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| August 22, 2007 | - Researchers in Uganda said that washing the penis after sex increases the risk of HIV infection. “Don't just finish and jump out of bed,” advised Dr. Ronald Gray, co-author of the study. “There ought to be a little time left for postcoital cuddling.”
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New York Times.
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| August 20, 2007 | - As part of President Bush's $15 billion anti-AIDS program, the United States will begin paying for African men to be circumcised.
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Washington Post
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| April 27, 2007 | - Researchers investigating the collapse of honeybee colonies in Europe and the Americas identified several possible reasons for the catastrophe: poor diet; radiation from mobile phones that disturbs bees' sense of navigation so they cannot fly home; increased solar radiation due to the thinning of the ozone layer; bee AIDS; stress from cross-country travel in trucks; falling queen fertility; the microsporidian fungus Nosema ceranae; or imidacloprid, a pesticide sold under the brand name Gaucho and banned by France in 1999 for spreading “mad bee disease.” Investors were advised to put their money in gold and corn futures to profit off the recession that may result from the disruption of the food chain caused by the vanishing bees. Grapes, which self-pollinate, and olives, which are pollinated by the wind, will not be affected by the bees' disappearance; Christians pointed out that the Book of Revelation predicts that a famine sparing grapes and olives will precede the apocalypse.
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New York Times
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The Register
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The Stockmasters
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Christian News Wire
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| April 15, 2007 | - A study surveying African-American women in the Mississippi Delta found that a majority of respondents believe anyone who gets AIDS deserves it, especially if he or she is a homosexual, bisexual, or prostitute, and that the U.S. government created HIV/AIDS to destroy the black race.
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The Clarion-Ledger
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| April 13, 2007 | - In Saudi Arabia, a widely circulated text message claimed melons entering the kingdom from Israel were infected with AIDS.
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Ynetnews
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| February 4, 2007 | -
HIV, said scientists, can avoid destruction by hiding out in the testicles.
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BBC
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| December 17, 2006 | - It was revealed that Senator
Bill Frist's
AIDS charity had paid almost a half-million dollars in consulting fees to Frist's political friends.
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CBS News
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| December 13, 2006 | - The National Institutes of Health said that circumcision is an effective method to limit heterosexual transmission of HIV.
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MSNBC
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| August 24, 2006 | - In Kenya, U.S. Senator
Barack Obama agreed to be tested for HIV.
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ABC News
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| July 6, 2006 | - It was reported that Melinda Gates is more comfortable than her husband Bill when it comes to holding AIDS babies in Africa or talking to male prostitutes in India.
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New York Times
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| June 29, 2006 | -
and sScientists were trying to create tomatoes containing an HIV vaccine.
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New Scientist
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| May 30, 2006 | - The worldwide rate of HIV infections stabilized for the first time in history.
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Breitbart
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| May 29, 2006 | - In Germany, at the official opening of the Hauptbahnhof, the largest railway station in Europe, a man went on a rampage and stabbed 35 people. Because one of the first people he stabbed was HIV positive, concerns were raised that some of the subsequently stabbed may also become infected.
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The Independent
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| May 25, 2006 | - A team of researchers in southern Cameroon said that they had found wild chimpanzees carrying the SIVcpz virus, thought to be the precursor to HIV.
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BBC News
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| April 24, 2006 | - It was reported that the Vatican might permit people with AIDS to use condoms, if they are married, although abstinence would still be preferred.
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BBC News
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| April 6, 2006 | - An independent study of AIDS in Africa, funded by an international consortium and performed in partnership with Johns Hopkins University, found that 3 percent of Rwandans age 15 to 49 are infected with HIV, a much lower figure than the 30 percent estimated by some researchers or the 13 percent estimated by the United Nations. Infection rates, the study found, were similarly overstated throughout East and West Africa, although in southern Africa the rate of infection remained extremely high: for example, 34.9 percent of Botswanans in the 15 to 49 age group are infected with HIV. "From a research point of view," a British economist said of UNAIDS, "they've done a pathetic job."
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The Washington Post
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| January 29, 2006 | - It was reported that one quarter of the Bush Administration's $15 billion in AIDS-fighting money had been given to religious groups.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| November 13, 2005 | - A man in Britain appeared to have cured himself of HIV.
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Times Online
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| July 8, 2005 | - A study found that circumcised men are less likely to contract HIV.
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The Advocate
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| June 13, 2005 | - More than one million people were estimated to be living with HIV in the United States.
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AP
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| June 2, 2005 | -
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said that HIV and AIDS were spreading at an accelerating rate around the world.
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Reuters
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| March 4, 2005 | - The U.N. predicted that 90 million Africans will have HIV by 2025.
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BBC News
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| February 12, 2005 | - A New York City man died of a new drug-resistant and extremely virulent strain of HIV that causes AIDS in only twenty months.
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CNN.com
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| January 28, 2005 | -
Swaziland's King Mswati chose his thirteenth wife and sent her to South Africa for an AIDS test.
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BBC News
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| November 10, 2004 | - Some claimed that Arafat had a fondness for wild homosexual orgies, and had consequently died of AIDS.
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Front Page
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| September 3, 2004 | - Two new AIDS vaccines failed to work.
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AllAfrica.com
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| August 9, 2004 | - It was reported that HIV has crossed the species barrier from apes to humans at least seven times in recent years and that a new strain of HIV, which is undetectable by normal HIV tests, has appeared in Cameroon. Scientists said that eating bush meat is the most likely cause; earlier this year, three bush-meat hunters came down with simian foamy virus.
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New Scientist
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| July 13, 2004 | - The United Nations estimated that southern Africa will have 50 million AIDS orphans by 2010, and the World Bank reported that only 700,000 orphans receive support from AIDS resources.
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New Scientist
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| May 20, 2004 | - Graveyards were filling up in South Africa.
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Reuters
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| May 13, 2004 | - The pornography industry lifted a moratorium on film shoots that was imposed after several actors tested positive for HIV.
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Reuters
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| April 17, 2004 | - The U.S. porn industry was shut down after a performer tested positive for HIV.
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New York Times
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| April 14, 2004 | - The Department of Health and Human Services held a hearing on the recent decision by Abbott Laboratories to quintuple the price of its essential AIDS drug Norvir, which used to cost about $1,500 a year but now costs $7,800.
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New York Times
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| March 27, 2004 | - The FDA approved a quick saliva test for HIV.
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New York Times
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| February 10, 2004 | -
South Africa's health minister, who has repeatedly expressed doubts that HIV causes AIDS, said that a diet with lots of garlic, olive oil, and lemon juice would help fight the disease.
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New York Times
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| January 29, 2004 | -
President Bush was reportedly planning to cut back on AIDS and poverty programs in the Third World.
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New York Times
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| November 26, 2003 | - Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California proposed cutbacks in therapy for the mentally disabled and in AIDS and poverty programs.
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New York Times
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| July 11, 2003 | - Mrs. Bush read a book about Clifford the big red dog to some HIV-infected children in Uganda; the children responded with a song: "AIDS has no mercy to the youth," they sang. "We all die young."
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Reuters
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| July 23, 2002 | -
Members of the House committee on energy and commerce were worrying that a new HIV-positive Muppet that will appear on “Takalani Sesame,” the South African version of “Sesame Street,” would slip onto American screens.
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| December 4, 2001 | - People in South Africa, which has the highest rate of AIDS infection in the world, were still trying to get the government to distribute a drug that helps prevent the transmission of HIV to newborn babies; South Africa's health department asked the bureau of standards to increase the standard condom size from 16 to 18 centimeters.
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| November 20, 2001 | -
China held its first conference on AIDS; an anonymous patient gave a brief speech from a dark stage lit only by green glow sticks.
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| November 13, 2001 | - The first clinical trial of marijuana released preliminary findings suggesting that pot is a “wonder drug” for people suffering from osteoporosis, cancer, AIDS, arthritis, spinal injuries, and some forms of mental illness.
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| October 23, 2001 | - A new study found that AIDS is now the leading cause of death in South Africa.
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| August 28, 2001 | -
China's deputy health minister finally admitted that the country is facing an AIDS epidemic; over the first half of this year, HIV infections rose nearly 70 percent compared with the same period last year.
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| August 7, 2001 | - The Southern Africa
Catholic Bishops Conference condemned the use of condoms to prevent AIDS because using rubbers is sinful and dangerous.
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| July 17, 2001 | - President Daniel arap Moi of Kenya told his compatriots that they should refrain from sex for two years to stop the spread of AIDS.
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| July 3, 2001 | - The United Nations General Assembly defined AIDS as a political, human rights, and economic issue; formerly AIDS was a venereal disease.
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| June 26, 2001 | - Coca-Cola announced that it would put its African distribution network to use in the dissemination of AIDS
drugs, condoms, and such.
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| June 5, 2001 | - Nkosi Johnson, a twelve-year-old South African boy, died of AIDS; Nkosi once managed to shame President Thabo Mbeki into walking out of an AIDS conference after he pleaded with the government to give AZT to pregnant mothers, a course of treatment that might have prevented his own infection.
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| May 29, 2001 | - Jack Kemp was exasperated with criticism that President Bush was governing from the far right, noting that Colin Powell was off in darkest Africa talking about AIDS. “What more do they want from this president?”
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| May 1, 2001 | - African leaders at an AIDS conference in Nigeria called on all African nations to spend 15 percent of their national budgets on health programs, which would double or triple what most of the countries now spend.
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| April 24, 2001 | - The pharmaceutical industry dropped its suit against the South African government over a law that will permit the importation of inexpensive anti-AIDS
drugs; the drug companies agreed to pay the government's legal costs and admitted that the law in question does in fact abide by international trade agreements.
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| April 24, 2001 | - Dr. Tshabalala-Msimang, South Africa's health minister, was asked what the government planned to do next, having won this important victory; she replied that actually there was no real need to use such drugs in a country with the highest rate of AIDS infection on earth.
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| March 27, 2001 | - The European Union passed a resolution calling on 39 drug companies to drop a lawsuit against South Africa in which they seek to overturn a law that would lower the price of anti-AIDS
drugs.
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| November 14, 2000 | - Herpes virus 8, which causes Kaposi's sarcoma, a skin cancer that commonly afflicts AIDS
patients, may be spread by kissing, according to a new study.
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| November 7, 2000 | - Dozens of Minneapolis residents received letters bearing the name of Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton telling them that they were infected with AIDS; the letters were fake.
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| September 26, 2000 | -
South Africa's
Communist Party affirmed that AIDS is caused by the HIV virus; President Thabo Mbeki believes otherwise, and his ministry of health recently issued a leaflet claiming that AIDS was the result of a conspiracy between the Illuminati and space aliens.
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| September 5, 2000 | -
Scientists in Oxford, England, will begin testing an experimental AIDS vaccine on humans; another vaccine trial will begin in Thailand.
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| July 25, 2000 | - In a policy designed to combat the spread of AIDS, Swaziland banned miniskirts in the schools.
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