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Unplanned Pregnancies Cost the U.S. Over $5.5 Billion in 2018 But Sex Education Still Leaves Students With Questions. Here's Why.
Sex education is inconsistent across the U.S., leading to serious public health and economic consequences.
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Prince Harry Pens Letter Honoring Mother Diana's Legacy and AIDS Activism
“My mother would be deeply grateful for everything you stand for and have accomplished. We all share that gratitude, so thank you,” he wrote.
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COVID Has Hurt the Fight Against AIDS, Experts Say — But It Could Also Lead to an HIV Vaccine
“Important discoveries stimulated by COVID-19 may also help us make progress against HIV/AIDS,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday.
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How HIV Research Paved the Way for the Covid MRNA Vaccines
Covid mRNA vaccines were sequenced, developed and approved in record time, but that would not have been possible without decades of work by HIV researchers.
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How Televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker Became an Unlikely Ally in the AIDS Crisis
While Bakker, who died of cancer in 2007 at age 65, has a complicated legacy, muddied by her first husband Jim Bakker’s fraud conviction, her record on gay rights has remained clear and was radical for its time.
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UN Urges Action to End AIDS, Saying COVID-19 Hurt Progress
The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved a declaration calling for urgent action to end AIDS by 2030, noting “with alarm” that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated inequalities and pushed access to AIDS medicines, treatments and diagnosis further off track
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Forty Years After First Documented AIDS Cases, Survivors Reckon With ‘Dichotomy of Feelings'
For Eric Sawyer, the 40th anniversary of the first scientific report that described AIDS as a new disease brings up “a dichotomy of feelings.” When Sawyer, who was living in New York, first began exhibiting symptoms of HIV in 1981, he said he was urged by his friend, the late activist and playwright Larry Kramer, to begin seeing “a doctor...
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World Health Organization Has Mixed News on World AIDS Day
Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day, and the World Health Organization has mixed news about the progress made in fighting the disease.
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‘Late Night': Cynthia Nixon Compares 2020 to AIDS Crisis
Lifelong New Yorker Cynthia Nixon talks about what it’s been like living in the city during the George Floyd protests.
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AIDS Report: Kids Are Lagging and COVID-19 Is Harming Care
New numbers on the global AIDS epidemic are showing some big successes, but also some tragic failures
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Trump Praises Scientists for Developing AIDS Vaccine That Doesn't Exist
President Donald Trump on Tuesday falsely suggested that scientists have developed a vaccine for AIDS, the late stage of HIV infection in which the virus badly damages the immune system.
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Larry Kramer, Playwright and AIDS Activist, Dies at 84
Time never softened the urgency of Larry Kramer’s demands. Theatergoers leaving a celebrated revival of Kramer’s “The Normal Heart” in 2011 were greeted by the playwright himself, deep in his 70s by then, handing out leaflets outside the Broadway theater demanding they do more to stop AIDS. “Please know that AIDS is a worldwide plague. Please know there is...
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Vaccine Shows Promise for Preventing Active TB Disease
An experimental vaccine proved 50% effective at preventing latent tuberculosis infection from turning into active disease in a three-year study of adults in Africa. Doctors were encouraged because protection declined only a little after two years, and even a partially effective vaccine would be a big help against TB. The lung disease kills more than a million people a year,...
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Global Fund Raises $13.92 Billion to Fight AIDS, TB, Malaria
An organization that funds programs to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria raised at least $13.92 billion for the next three years at an international conference, French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday. The Global Fund said after the conference that Macron, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Bono of the rock band U2 “committed to raise at least a further $100 million...
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Richard Gere Visits Migrants Stuck in the Mediterranean
Carrying boxes of fruit, Richard Gere visited rescued migrants Friday on a humanitarian ship that has been struck in the Mediterranean Sea for over a week, landing smack in the middle of a debate over immigration that European nations have not been able to resolve. The American film star took food and supplies by boat to 121 people aboard the...
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Sex With HIV Still a Crime? Updated Laws Divide Advocates
As Sanjay Johnson describes it, his sexual encounter with James Booth on Oct. 2, 2015, was a one-night stand. But it would bind the men inextricably two years later, when Booth walked into an Arkansas police station and accused Johnson of exposing him to HIV. Little Rock prosecutors pursued a criminal charge against Johnson even though a doctor said he...
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Boston Nonprofit Concerned About HIV Spread Among Drug Addicts
A Boston nonprofit is voicing concern about the continued spread of HIV among residents struggling with opioid addiction. The Whittier Street Health Center said Tuesday its outreach team identified two new cases of HIV in the notorious illegal drug market around Boston Medical Center in the city’s South End.
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Trump Admin. Offers Mixed Messages on Scrapping ‘Obamacare'
The Trump administration is arguing in court that the entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down as unconstitutional. But at the same time, Justice Department lawyers recently suggested that federal judges could salvage its anti-fraud provisions, raising questions about keeping other parts as well. Serving up more mixed messages, President Donald Trump last week floated to a Democratic lawmaker...
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Warren Releases $100 Billion Plan to Combat Opioid Epidemic
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has unveiled a new version of her plan to combat America’s opioid epidemic, proposing to spend $100 billion over 10 years on battling the consequences of addiction.