All posts tagged "hiv/aids"
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Obama marks World AIDS Day with commitment of funds
President Barack Obama marked the 25th annual World AIDS Day by announcing a series of new funding initiatives meant to combat the virus at home...
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World AIDS Day 2013 via music
The power of music is its universal ability to express feelings and emotions in a way that touches us all on any possible subject imaginable....
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The Intimate Act of Disclosure
As we approach another World AIDS Day I find myself reflecting on one of the most troubling elements in our discussion moving forward. It is...
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Talking Transmission
A panel of LGBT advocates specializing in health and social welfare, moderated by MSNBC's Thomas Roberts, met Thursday, Nov. 21, as part of a webcast...
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Obama signs bipartisan bill lifting ban on HIV-positive organ transplants
President Barack Obama signed into law Thursday a bill lifting the ban on organ transplants between people who are HIV-positive. The HIV Organ Policy Equity...
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Sculpture Dedicated in Memory of Whitman-Walker Clinic
The JBG Companies, a real-estate development firm, dedicated a piece of public art Monday afternoon to the Whitman-Walker Clinic and the health workers who provided...
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AIDS Walk To Honor Sean Sasser
The 27th AIDS Walk Washington, the annual fundraising event for community health center Whitman-Walker Health and its partner organizations, has announced that it will honor...
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Quarter Century of HOPE
The local HIV nonprofit organization Health Options and Positive Energy Foundation, better known as HOPE DC or the HOPE Foundation, has announced details of a...
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Swim for Life Surpassing Last Year's Success
An annual swim competition that doubles as a fundraiser for four D.C.-area nonprofits is already on pace to beat last year's records, according to one...
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Researchers report HIV undetectable in two patients after bone marrow transplants
“These findings clearly provide important new information that might well alter the current thinking about HIV and gene therapy. While stem cell transplantation is not...
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Teaming Up for HIV Testing
Whitman-Walker Health, the community nonprofit center that specializes in LGBT culturally competent care and HIV/AIDS, will be partnering with Walgreens pharmacy stores and Greater Than...
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The Search Must Continue
As HIV-vaccine trial participants, we grow accustomed to the routine blood draws, interacting with study staff and taking our computer-assisted interviews that catalog our risks....
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HIV-vaccine trial halted after review board finds no effect
“These results do not change the fundamental view that an AIDS vaccine remains critical to any long-term strategy to end the AIDS epidemic.” Matthew Rose,...
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Medical Marijuana Makeover
Pat Hawkins is trying to remake the image of medical marijuana as the District prepares to make it a reality. Hawkins, a clinical social worker,...
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Commitment to a Cure
As an emigrant from a developing country in Sub-Saharan Africa, I know firsthand what HIV/AIDS has done to my home country. In 1990, 1992 and...
