All posts tagged "aids"
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Mixed Messages on Blood
After a generation of gay men grew up being prohibited from donating blood after having had sex with just one man even one time since...
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Community Service
Though no one could imagine in 1991 what would grow from an effort to meet the basic needs of people living with HIV/AIDS in D.C.'s...
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Blood Talk
Following up on a March announcement from the Department of Health and Human Services, the June meeting of the Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and...
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Strategizing AIDS
The White House Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) presented a tentative outline of a National HIV/AIDS Strategy during a community meeting in D.C. and...
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Doctor, Doctor
Back in the very early 1990s, not long after college and in the depths of my great post-collegiate career crisis — fancy speak for ''educated...
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More Snow, More Need
While an emergency call for volunteers Tuesday meant that none of the 1,400 ill clients served by Food and Friends went hungry despite the poor...
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Foul Weather and Food
In order to keep ahead of additional snowfall expected to hit D.C. midweek, Food and Friends has put out an urgent call for delivery volunteers....
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Meanwhile, in Senegal
The global outcry against Uganda's ''Anti-Homosexuality Bill'' could not be more deafening. Opponents of the legislation have condemned the effort not just to put gays...
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Financial Ally to Evil
Televangelist Pat Robertson's claim that the Haitian earthquake was divine retribution for a two-century-old pact with the devil, even as he purported to raise relief...
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Have your tax dollars helped Evangelicals set stage for gay execution bill in Uganda through Bush’s ”AIDS Relief” program? [video]
”Homosexuality will not be promoted, encouraged or supported in Uganda…. It is never, ever, a standard practice in the civilised world for a diplomat to...
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As Uganda looms, Hillary Clinton speaks out against efforts to “marginalize and criminalize” LGBT people worldwide
“We have to stand against any efforts to marginalize and criminalize and penalize members of the LGBT community worldwide.” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking...
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Two Decades and Change
The last time the United States hosted the International AIDS Conference, leading researchers were discussing ''combination drug therapy'' as the likely future of HIV/AIDS treatment....
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C Street, Rick Warren & George Bush’s billions for AIDS funding show close ties to proponents of Uganda’s “kill the gays” bill [video]
”The fundamental dignity of every person, our right to be free, and the freedom to make moral choices are gifts endowed by God, our creator....
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City government in China opens gay bar to get men out of woods, safer education
“In the past the government relied on to reach out to the gay community…. Now there’s a change, in that some local health...
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Rick Warren denies, denies, denies preaching against gays, campaigning for Proposition 8 against same-sex marriage
Absolutely. Much more, uh, sympathetic understanding the pains and reactions. I have understood that so many...
