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Auto-immune deficiency syndrome. The disease is caused by the HIV retrovirus, a specialized virus which attacks the human immune system.

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HIV spreads in NY at three times the US average

Published August 27, 2008, 4:29 pm, Stuff

New Yorkers are contracting HIV at three times the national rate, the city health department has said, attributing the difference to New York's large population of high-risk groups such as gay men and blacks.

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CNN - NYC's HIV Rate 3 Times Higher Than Nation's

Published August 27, 2008, 4:10 pm, CBS 46 News Atlanta

New York City's Rate Of HIV Infection Is About Three Times The National Rate, According To Estimates Released Wednesday By The New York City Department Of Health And Mental Hygiene.  

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312 HIV-positive travellers found through random blood checks at border crossings

Published August 27, 2008, 3:32 pm, Shanghaiist

This article in the China Daily caught our attention: Three hundred and twelve travelers were found to be HIV positive in the first seven months of this year, up 19 percent year-on-year, a report released Tuesday showed. They were among 756,000 travelers who received random blood checks at border crossings, according to the report compiled by the General Administration of Quality ...

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Infected and affected: Gay couple shares need for solutions to AIDS, safe haven

Published August 27, 2008, 3:14 pm, Daily Sparks Tribune

From Honolulu to New York City to northern Nevada, Tom Ruble has found beauty in any place he has called home. However, when he's open to others about being HIV positive and gay, it's often difficult for others to get past these things and he works to alleviate any fears or stigmas about who he is.

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HIV spreads in NY at three times the U.S. average

Published August 27, 2008, 2:49 pm, Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers are contracting HIV at three times the national rate, the city health department said on Wednesday, attributing the difference to New York's large population of high-risk groups such as gay men and blacks.

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HIV spreads in NY at three times the U.S. average

Published August 27, 2008, 2:46 pm, AlertNet

Source: Reuters NEW YORK, Aug 27 (Reuters) - New Yorkers are contracting HIV at three times the national rate, the city health department said on Wednesday, attributing the difference to New York's large population ...

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NIAID describes challenges, prospects for an HIV vaccine

Published August 27, 2008, 2:27 pm, EurekAlert!

( NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ) Events of the past year in HIV vaccine research have led some to question whether an effective HIV vaccine will ever be developed. In the Aug. 28 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, officials from NIAID examine the extraordinarily challenging properties of the virus that have made a vaccine elusive and outline the ...

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Stay Awake for the Ten O'Clock Show

Published August 27, 2008, 1:01 pm, San Diego Reader

“Theater matters because it’s the only place where one can find hope. Films are manufactured for us, but in the theater, the actors and the audience are getting together to manufacture a narrative, and to me, that’s where hope resides.”

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Obama's Acceptance Speech Dispels Post Civil Rights Myth

Published August 27, 2008, 12:38 pm, HuffingtonPost

Earl Ofari Hutchinson Even if Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama didn't utter Martin Luther King Jr.'s name once in his Democratic presidential acceptance speech,...

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Court pulls up AIDS control agency for faulty HIV kits

Published August 27, 2008, 12:36 pm, New Kerala

New Delhi, Aug 27 : The Delhi High Court Wednesday came down heavily on the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) for suppressing a World Bank report on faulty HIV kits being used in India.

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