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All posts tagged "aids"

  • Soldiering On for HIV Vaccine

    The September 2007 announcement by Merck that the pharmaceutical giant was halting its large-scale, HIV-vaccine trial due to poor results, haunted a May 16 gathering...

  • To the Max

    Twenty years have passed since Max Robinson, the nation's first African-American network news anchor, died from AIDS-related complications at Howard University Hospital. Sixteen years have...

  • NOVAM'S IMAGINE-ation

    Dancing, cocktails, dessert, live entertainment, auctions are all expected at IMAGINE, the Northern Virginia AIDS Ministry's (NOVAM) signature annual fundraiser, this weekend. Last year, the...

  • Cure Cycle

    When Marty Rosen heard about Dr. Yuntao Wu's ''groundbreaking'' HIV research at George Mason University in Fairfax, she traveled from New York City to discuss...

  • Saving Face

    When HIV attacks a person, it sets its sights on the body. The collateral damage is done to the psyche, as HIV indirectly causes stress,...

  • The Party Line

    A visit to the Best of Washington's Web site isn't exactly a celebration. It's something more like a remembrance. The ''news'' section, for example, offers...

  • Warm Donation

    Ray Daniels D.C. Black Pride has donated 14 bags of coats, about $1,000 and food items to Damien Ministries, collected...

  • Branching Out

    The D.C. Chapter of Immigration Equality will host a reception and fundraiser in support of same-sex, bi-national couples, and GLBT or HIV-positive asylum seekers, on...

  • Church Lady

    When Rev. Christine Wiley took her turn to speak at a recent HIV/AIDS town-hall meeting called to address the alarming data recently cited in a...

  • Searching for Answers

    About 70 people gathered for nearly three hours the evening of Tuesday, Jan. 15, at an HIV/AIDS Town Hall Meeting seeking to rekindle some of...

  • HIV/AIDS Report Card

    Overall, the District's efforts in combating HIV/AIDS are above average, according to the DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice's third annual HIV/AIDS in the...

  • For the Children

    December 1, World AIDS Day, will again mark that sad anniversary that, while a time to tout advances such as an entirely new class of...

  • Keeping the Faith

    You don't go to Damien Ministries to die. Unlike its early days in the late '80s, when it was known as Damien House, the HIV/AIDS...

  • Fighting Back

    If Washington was compared not to other cities, but to entire countries, ''It would rank in between the Republic of Congo and Rwanda in terms...

  • HAA calling for HIV/AIDS listings

    The Department of Health's HIV/AIDS Administration (HAA) is currently preparing an updated version of its free ''Directory of HIV/AIDS Services in the District of Columbia,''...