Posted on August 4, 2008 by goingsouth
Today the XVII International AIDS Conference starts in Mexico City. Lots of information is going to be coming out including the new incidence of HIV infections in the US. If you want to keep up with the conference, see live webcast, or view recorded sessions for later viewing please visit the Kaisernetwork.org site. Here is [...]
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Posted on August 3, 2008 by goingsouth
Here is the link to the report and whole article.
What If Black America Were Its Own Country?
“Left Behind! Black America: A Neglected Priority in the Global AIDS Epidemic” incorporates a new analysis by the Black AIDS Institute showing how Black America would rank on the global health and HIV scale if it were a separate [...]
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Posted on August 3, 2008 by goingsouth
Here is the link to the Southern States Manifesto
Report warns of Southern AIDS ‘crisis’
Half of deaths occur in 17-state region as federal, private money dries up
By Alex Johnson
MSNBC
July. 24, 2008
AIDS specialists are calling for a fundamental rethinking of HIV policy after a new report showed that infection with the virus was rising dramatically in the [...]
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Posted on April 11, 2008 by goingsouth
While on the face of it it is a good sign that Georgia is finally doing something to address this horrible issue, it is outrageous that it takes people dying, a federal investigation and a investigative piece from the AJC to make this happen.
Having an ombudsmen and advocates for the most helpless of our residents [...]
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Posted on April 8, 2008 by goingsouth
Found this to be a good example of how HIV/AIDS is not being covered in the news and how this lack of information leads to people coming to false perceptions about the disease.
Why So Little AIDs Coverage?
When I decided to take two j-students to study AIDS in South Africa we discovered that there is [...]
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Posted on April 4, 2008 by goingsouth
From Feministe. Go read the whole post.
Despite evidence—and the efforts of Rep. Betty McCollum, experts and advocates around the world—the full House voted yesterday to reauthorize a $50 billion global HIV/AIDS relief initiative that threatens to further restrict, rather than support, expansion of HIV prevention through family planning services.
Several advocates and the mainstream media have [...]
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