All posts tagged "aids"
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HIV Bills Moving Swiftly in D.C.
Two bills designed to increase awareness and promote a dialogue on HIV/AIDS between patients and service providers are closer to becoming law after being passed...
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Global LGBT News Briefs: Ads and Infection
London Mayor Bans ''Conversion Therapy'' Bus Ads Advertisements promoting ''conversion therapy'' – which claims to make gay people straight – scheduled to run on some...
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Whitman-Walker Touts Growth, Fiscal Health
Whitman-Walker Health, the local community health center specializing in the treatment of HIV/AIDS and LGBT health care, announced Monday that it is projecting an operating...
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Meet Stacey Campfield: Gay & AIDS misinformation flows freely from Tennessee senator
Gay radio talker Michelangelo Signorile interviewed Tennessee state Senator Stacey Campfield about his pending, “Don’t Say Gay” bill. That measure would essentially prevent any discussion by...
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Don't Tell, Go to Jail
Two bills – one already introduced, one being drafted – in the Maryland General Assembly would classify transferring the HIV virus to another individual as...
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Elton John pushes for “bridges of compassion,” not vaccine, as cure for AIDS
“ is a disease that must be cured not by a miraculous vaccine, but by changing hearts and minds, and through a collective effort to...
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Locals Mark World AIDS Day
About a hundred community members and religious and civic leaders gathered at dusk at the fountain in Dupont Circle Dec. 1 for a candlelight vigil...
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World AIDS Day 2011
It is Dec. 1. It is time, again, to mark World AIDS Day. As with winter, soon to follow, one might say that AIDS is...
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Battling the Blood Ban
Blood may be thicker than water. But a ban on blood donations may be thicker still. Members of George Washington University's Lambda Law, the LGBT...
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Clinton's HIV Address
In a major address delivered Nov. 8 at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that more than...
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An Angry Heart
Larry Kramer, with his dog Charley, in his Manhattan home (Photo by Chris Geidner) Since the publication of Faggots in 1978, Larry Kramer has been...
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Walking for Whitman-Walker
Rain and snow flurries may have kept some away, but failed to dampen the mood of some 5,000 participants in Washington's 25th Annual AIDS Walk...
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AIDS Walk's Top 25
Whitman-Walker Health, organizer of AIDS Walk Washington, on Tuesday announced not only the recipients of the event's three major honors, but a list of 25...
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HIV/AIDS Nonprofit Head Insults Gay Councilmembers
The director of an HIV/AIDS nonprofit – now being sued by D.C.'s attorney general for allegedly diverting more than $300,000 in city funds intended for...
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Tales of Survival
June 5 marked the 30th anniversary of the first report of what became known as AIDS, when the Centers for Disease Control described cases of...
