AIDS prevention
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If You’re an African American With HIV, You May Need a Higher Selzentry Dose
(The Body) – A new study suggests that many African Americans may not be getting effective doses of the HIV…
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The ‘Tampon’ That Could Prevent HIV
(The Washington Post) – More than 80 percent of women diagnosed with HIV contract the virus through heterosexual sex. A condom…
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Toward a Cure for HIV: The Promise of the ‘Mississippi Baby’
By Linda Villarosa Special to the NNPA from The Black AIDS Institute MELBOURNE, Australia – Is the glass half empty…
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Temple Researchers Snip Out Dormant HIV from Cells
(The Philadelphia Inquirer) Temple University researchers have used state-of-the-art molecular scissors to cut out dormant HIV hiding in human…
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Girl Hoped to Have Been Cured of HIV has Relapsed
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer A Mississippi girl born with the AIDS virus and in remission for more than…
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Jamaica University Sacks AIDS Doctor
(IOL News) – Religious activists, students and colleagues gathered outside Jamaica’s biggest university on Monday to protest the firing of…
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A Simple Theory, and a Proposal, on H.I.V. in Africa
(New York Times) – OTIMATI, South Africa — While around the world a vast majority of AIDS victims are men, Africa has…
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New Effort to Halt Spread of HIV in the Caribbean
DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A handful of sex workers sit on discarded cardboard along a filthy…
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