2010
- Annie Lennox honored by queen for charity work
- Associated Press - December 30, 2010
- Jill Lawless, Associated Press
- Sweet dreams are made of this for Annie Lennox, honored by Queen Elizabeth II in the monarch s New Year list of awards. The statuesque Scottish singer, who came to fame in 1980s duo Eurythmics, was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, or OBE, for her work with charities fighting AIDS and poverty in Afri
- Oral history project planned recapping AIDS patient Ryan White's impact on Kokomo area
- Associated Press - December 28, 2010
- KOKOMO, Ind. - Local historians want to interview school board members and others about the decision to bar teenager Ryan White from a central Indiana school during the AIDS scare of the 1980s. The Howard County Historical Society hopes to interview 15 to 20 people for an oral history project. The group wants to talk w
- Henderson-based HIV-AIDS clinic misses out on funds
- Associated Press - December 28, 2010
- HENDERSON, Ky. -- A Henderson-based HIV-AIDS clinic won t be receiving the federal grant it was approved for this year. Funds aren t available for the $240,000 grant for the prevention program of Matthew 25, the regional HIV-AIDS clinic in Henderson. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had approved the grant
- Bristol-Myers buys rights to potential HIV drug in deal that could be worth up to $286 million
- Associated Press - December 20, 2010
- NEW YORK (AP) -- Bristol-Myers Squibb has reached an agreement that could be worth up to $286 million to buy exclusive worldwide rights to develop, make and sell a potential HIV treatment in mid-stage testing by Oncolys BioPharma Inc. Oncolys, a privately held Japanese company, will receive upfront, development, regula
- Stringent medical marijuana rules proposed in AZ
- Associated Press - December 17, 2010
- Amanda Lee Myers, Associated Press
- PHOENIX (AP) - Preliminary rules for would-be users and prescribers of medical marijuana in Arizona are so stringent that no more than 20,000 people likely will qualify for the drug -- a sharp decrease from earlier estimate of 100,000 in the first year alone, a regulator said Friday. The revised estimate was made after
- London, tuberculosis capital of Western Europe
- Associated Press - December 16, 2010
- Maria Cheng, AP Medical Writer
- LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) - The number of people infected with tuberculosis has jumped by 50 percent in London in the last decade, making it the tuberculosis capital of Western Europe, a new report says. Unlike other countries in the region where tuberculosis is dropping, the disease is on the rise in Britain, partic
- States that cut AIDS Drug Assistance Programs
- Associated Press - December 16, 2010
- (AP) - States with waiting lists for their AIDS Drug Assistance Programs, as of Dec. 9: * Arkansas: 5 people * Florida: 2,396 * Georgia : 837 * Montana: 14 * North Carolina: 84 * Ohio: 374 * South Carolina: 298 * Virginia: 24 * Louisiana: 511 States that have cut their AIDS Drug Assistance Programs in other ways, as of
- Thousands on HIV drugs desperate amid budget woes
- Associated Press - December 16, 2010
- Michelle R. Smith, Associated Press
- Providence, R.I. (AP) - Cash-strapped states are cutting back on a program that provides free medicine to people with HIV, leaving thousands of patients to wonder where their drugs will come from and stirring fears of a return to the days when an AIDS diagnosis meant certain death. At least 19 states have taken such st
- Rare transplant may have cured man of AIDS, but doctors say it's not practical for the masses
- Associated Press - December 14, 2010
- Marilynn Marchionem, AP Medical Writer
- A very unusual blood transplant appears to have cured an American man living in Berlin of infection with the AIDS virus, but doctors say the approach is not practical for wide use. The man, who is in his 40s, had a blood stem cell transplant in 2007 to treat leukemia. His donor not only was a good blood match but also
- S. African to double HIV patient treatment
- Associated Press - December 14, 2010
- JOHANNESBURG, (AP) - South Africa s health minister says he has brought down the cost of HIV drugs by 53 percent, enabling the government to treat twice as many patients in the next two years. Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said in a statement Tuesday that the government saved 4.7 billion rand ($689 million) by encou
- Go Daddy gives $500K to fund women's health center
- Associated Press - December 13, 2010
- Dana Wollman, AP Technology Writer
- New York (AP) - Make no mistake: GoDaddy.com loves women. The seller of website domain names, whose Super Bowl ads with scantily clad women made it a household name, announced that it has donated $500,000 to the Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS to launch a women s health clinic in Phoenix. The Go Daddy Women s Health Cent
- EU-India trade deal could limit generics supply
- Associated Press - December 10, 2010
- Maria Cheng, AP Medical Writer
- LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) - AIDS patients in Africa are nervously awaiting the outcome of talks launched Friday between Europe and India on a new trade deal that could slash the world s supply of cheap generics. Health activists warn a new agreement that raises protection for intellectual property rights for European
- LA clinic that caters to porn industry shuttered
- Associated Press - December 9, 2010
- Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Associated Press
- Los Angeles, CA (AP) - A clinic that caters to porn stars was shut down Thursday after losing its state license, county health officials said. The cease and desist order was issued to the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation clinic by agents of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health acting on behalf
- Mich. man charged in HIV bite case gets probation
- Associated Press - December 8, 2010
- MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. - An HIV-positive Detroit-area man who once was charged under Michigan s bioterrorism law after authorities say he bit his neighbor s lip has been sentenced to 11 months of probation. Forty-five-year-old Daniel Allen of Macomb County s Clinton Township last month pleaded no contest to assault. Maco
- LA porn actor who tested positive for HIV calls for mandatory condom use in adult films
- Associated Press - December 8, 2010
- Shaya Tayefe Mohajer
- LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A clinic frequented by porn stars stood by findings that an adult film actor contracted HIV through personal sexual activity, contradicting his claims that he was infected through work. Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation spokeswoman Jennifer Miller said Wednesday that the San Fernando Vall
- Designer does T-shirts for World AIDS
- Associated Press - December 8, 2010
- Samantha Critchell, AP Fashion Writer
- T-shirt designed by Mondo Guerra to benefit amFAR. In hindsight, though, Guerra thinks he was compelled to it because now I have the ability to bring attention to a cause, he says. Things happen for a reason, he adds. Now that this is my life now, it has brought some opportunities. I think it s inspired a lot of other
- S. Africa halts rollout of circumcision device
- Associated Press - December 8, 2010
- JOHANNESBURG, (AP) - A South African health ministry spokesman says the government has halted the rollout of a controversial male circumcision device. Spokesman Fidel Hadebe said Wednesday that more research needed to be done on the plastic device [Tara KLamp] that has circumcised 9,000 South African men since April.
- LA porn actor who tested positive for HIV calls for mandatory condom use in porn films
- Associated Press - December 8, 2010
- LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An adult film actor who tested positive for HIV says he now wishes he had known more about the risks of contracting sexually transmitted diseases in the industry and is calling for mandatory condom use in porn films. Derrick Burts, 24, identified himself to the Los Angeles Times as the performer who
- Alicia Keys' charity reaches $1M fundraising goal
- Associated Press - December 7, 2010
- Mesfin Fekadu
- NEW YORK, (AP) - Alicia Keys, Lady Gaga and other celebrities can sign back online, thanks to donations from their fans and a philanthropist. Keys announced Monday that her charity, Keep a Child Alive, reached its $1 million fundraising goal in honor of last week s World AIDS Day. A slew of celebrities signed off digit
- Center removes photo of nude man with pill bottles in lap from HIV/AIDS exhibit in Madison
- Associated Press - December 6, 2010
- MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A photo showing a nude man with a handful of pill bottles covering his lap has been removed from a Madison exhibit featuring amateur photographers living with HIV/AIDS. Overture Center officials were concerned that children who walk through the Playhouse Gallery on their way to shows could connect
- Alan Cumming slips on red sneakers for AIDS Day
- Associated Press - December 1, 2010
- Lauri Neff
- NEW YORK -- Alan Cumming is in the red for World AIDS Day - red sneakers that is. The actor was the first person to don a pair of limited edition Converse sneakers released Wednesday by Red, an organization that raises money to fight AIDS. The sneakers are designed by British artist Damien Hirst. Cumming says World AID
- Elton John edits UK newspaper for World AIDS Day
- Associated Press - December 1, 2010
- LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) - Elton John has turned newspaper editor, overseeing an edition of Britain s The Independent to mark World AIDS Day. Wednesday s paper features more than a dozen pages of stories related to the fight against HIV, including contributions from some of John s famous friends, including Elizabeth
- AP Interview: S.Africa concerned at costs of AIDS
- Associated Press - December 1, 2010
- Donna Bryson, Associated Press
- PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - South Africa s health minister is increasingly concerned at the cost of coping with AIDS in the country with the world s largest number of HIV-positive citizens. But in an interview marking World AIDS Day Wednesday, Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi said his government has no choice but to keep spendin
- US launches HIV testing program in Zimbabwe
- Associated Press - December 1, 2010
- Angus Shaw, Associated Press
- HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - The United States launched a program in Zimbabwe Wednesday to encourage HIV testing, with the U.S. ambassador, local musicians, broadcast personalities and soccer stars taking tests to mark the occasion. Alexio Kawara, one of the nation s most popular musicians, said Zimbabwean celebrities are l
- Catholic AIDS workers: Pope echoing us on condoms
- Associated Press - Wednesday, December 1, 2010
- Michelle Faul, Associated Press
- JOHANNESBURG, (AP) - The three large blue and white boxes of condoms appeared to be the elephant in the room at the Catholic AIDS clinic, a trailer beside the church in a dusty red-soil settlement in the world s most AIDS-riddled nation. But parish priest Rev. Didier Lemaire showed no embarrassment when asked about the
- Fla. AIDS program struggling due to unemployment
- Associated Press - November 30, 2010
- A state program that provides free medication to Floridians with HIV and AIDS is struggling. The Florida Times-Union, a Jacksonville newspaper, reported Monday that the program has a backlog of about 2,000 patients due to Florida s high unemployment rate and a growing number of people who lack insurance. Also, less mon
- Ill. House debates legalizing medical marijuana
- Associated Press - November 30, 2010
- SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois lawmakers are debating whether to legalize the use of marijuana for medical purposes. Democratic Rep. Lou Lang says he thinks there s a good chance the Illinois House will approve his legislation. The proposal would allow people to possess marijuana for treating the symptoms of AIDS,
- Retired Chinese official pushes for investigation of 1990s HIV epidemic from tainted blood
- Associated Press - November 30, 2010
- Gillian Wong
- BEIJING (AP) -- In his dying days, a retired Chinese health official is calling on the government to come clean about a 1990s blood-selling scandal that infected tens of thousands of people with the virus that causes AIDS. His appeal this week for a full and open investigation highlights a contradiction in China s AIDS
- More Americans getting tested for AIDS virus, fewer infections discovered late, CDC reports
- Associated Press - November 30, 2010
- NEW YORK (AP) -- A new government report shows more Americans are getting tested for the AIDS virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta looked at how many people have been tested since guidelines were expanded in 2006 to include routine screening for all teens and adults. Last year, an estimated
- 'Project Runway' designer Mondo Guerra raising AIDS awareness with new Ts
- Associated Press - November 30, 2010
- Samantha Critchell, AP Fashion Writer
- NEW YORK (AP) -- There s a reason Mondo Guerra shared his story about being HIV positive on the reality show Project Runway. It s just at the time, he wasn t quite sure what it was. In hindsight, though, Guerra thinks he was compelled to it because now I have the ability to bring attention to a cause, he says. Thi
- Panic among Kenya's gays after PM's arrest threat
- Associated Press - November 29, 2010
- Tom Odula, Associated Press
- NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - An official with Kenya s largest gay rights organization said Monday there is panic among its members following remarks made by Kenya s prime minister that homosexuals should be arrested. The office of the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya received calls from concerned members, some of whom are H
- Keys, Lady Gaga to sign off Twitter for charity
- Associated Press - November 29, 2010
- Mesfin Fekadu, Associated Press
- Alicia Keys and Lady Gaga take charity work seriously, and they re going offline to prove it. Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Usher and other celebrities have joined a new campaign called Digital Life Sacrifice on behalf of Keys charity, Keep a Child Alive. The entertainers plan to sign off of social media platforms like Face
- Gay rights group donates legal documents to Yale
- Associated Press - November 29, 2010
- New Haven, Conn. (AP) - A Boston-based group is donating 30 years worth of documents to Yale University that chart the legal campaign for gay rights in New England. Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders has pursued gay civil rights throughout the region since the group was founded in 1978. Its precedent-setting l
- San Jose-based AIDS center closing doors
- Associated Press - November 26, 2010
- San Jose, Calif. (AP) - A San Jose-based organization that raised thousands of dollars annually for HIV programs is closing its doors. The Silicon Valley AIDS Leadership Center will shut down by the end of the year following the loss of corporate sponsorships. Chairman James Lee says the center was unable to make up fo
- Pope's remarks on condoms sow widespread confusion
- Associated Press - November 25, 2010
- Tom Breen And Rachel Zoll, Associated Press
- Raleigh, N.C. (AP) - Some Roman Catholics are confused. Some are angry. Others just don t believe the pope meant what it seems he said. Days after the release of Pope Benedict XVI s comments that condoms can be justified to prevent the spread of HIV, there is widespread confusion about exactly what he was trying to say
- WHO official welcomes Pope's statement on condoms
- Associated Press - November 25, 2010
- MANILA, Philippines (AP) - The World Health Organization on Thursday welcomed a statement by Pope Benedict XVI that condoms can help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. The Pope s statement is in line with evidence that condoms are highly effective in preventing infection with the HIV virus, said Dr.
- Myanmar allows HIV shelter to continue operating
- Associated Press - November 25, 2010
- YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Authorities in military-ruled Myanmar gave a last-minute reprieve Thursday night to HIV patients living in a shelter run by supporters of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, after earlier saying it had to be shut down. Yarzar, one of the shelter s staff, said the authorities agreed Thursday night
- Red Cross scolds 'failed' HIV policy among nations
- Associated Press - November 25, 2010
- John Heilprin, Associated Press
- GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) - The spread of HIV and AIDS among millions of people could be slowed if addicts who inject drugs were treated as medical patients rather than as criminals, the International Federation of the Red Cross said Friday. More than 80 percent of the world s governments are inclined to artificial rea
- Conservatives at odds with Vatican over condoms
- Associated Press - November 24, 2010
- Rachel Zoll, AP Religion Writer
- NEW YORK, (AP) - Faced with a changing outlook from Pope Benedict XVI on condoms and their role in preventing the spread of HIV, many prominent conservative Roman Catholics in the U.S. are rejecting the Vatican s own explanation of what the pope said. Several orthodox Catholics said they would only accept a more formal
- UN AIDS chief: Spread of HIV in E. Europe is scary
- Associated Press - November 24, 2010
- Veronika Oleksyn, Associated Press
- VIENNA, Austria (AP) - A near tripling of new HIV infections in Eastern Europe and Central Asia over the past nine years is frightening, the U.N. s top AIDS official said Wednesday. The United Nations estimates that 1.4 million people were living with HIV in the region in 2009 -- almost three times the number in 2000 -
- Anti-AIDS groups hail drug but worry over cost
- Associated Press - November 24, 2010
- Marcus Wohlsen, Associated Press
- San Francisco (AP) - AIDS prevention advocates are hailing a pill newly shown to protect against HIV as a great tool for disease prevention. But they caution that no drug alone can address social factors blamed for the persistence of the epidemic. And they say concerns remain about who will pay for the costly treatment
- Myanmar to evict AIDS victims from Suu Kyi shelter
- Associated Press - November 23, 2010
- YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar s health ministry has ordered the eviction of 82 HIV/AIDS patients from a shelter run by supporters of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi because the center is not hygienic, state media said Wednesday. An official at the facility said the patients have refused to move, setting the stage fo
- Vatican Pope's condom comments apply to women too
- Associated Press - November 23, 2010
- Nicole Winfield
- VATICAN CITY, (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI s comments about condom use being a lesser evil than transmitting HIV also apply to women, the Vatican said Tuesday, a significant shift for a pope who just last year said condoms only worsen the AIDS problem. Benedict said in a book released Tuesday that condom use by people such
- UN says AIDS epidemic slows, infections dropping
- Associated Press - November 23, 2010
- Nastasya Tay
- JOHANNESBURG, (AP) - The global AIDS epidemic has slowed with a 20 percent decrease in new HIV infections over the past decade, the United Nations AIDS agency said Tuesday. Despite claiming that the trajectory of the epidemic has been broken, a report released Tuesday by the Geneva-based agency said that there are stil
- Hit by AIDS, Africa welcomes pope's condom message
- Associated Press - November 23, 2010
- Jason Straziuso And Jenny Gross
- NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - From clerics to AIDS activists, Africans applauded Pope Benedict XVI s suggestion that condoms could be used in limited situations to protect partners -- a shift that could make a dramatic impact in a continent that is both battling an HIV pandemic and is the fastest-growing region for the Roman C
- 3 big developments make AIDS outlook more hopeful
- Associated Press - November 23, 2010
- Marilynn Marchione, AP Medical Writer
- In the nearly 30 years the AIDS epidemic has raged, there has never been a more hopeful day than this. Three striking developments took place Tuesday: U.N. officials said new HIV cases are dropping dramatically worldwide. A study showed that a daily pill already on pharmacy shelves could help prevent new infections in
- In major shift, Vatican says condoms lesser of 2 evils when used to curb the spread of AIDS
- Associated Press - November 23, 2010
- Nicole Winfield, Victor L. Simpson
- VATICAN CITY (AP) -- In a seismic shift on one of the most profound -- and profoundly contentious -- Roman Catholic teachings, the Vatican said Tuesday that condoms are the lesser of two evils when used to curb the spread of AIDS, even if their use prevents a pregnancy. The position was an acknowledgment that the churc
- Pope Seeks to Start Debate on Condoms and AIDS
- Associated Press - November 22, 2010
- VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI sought to kick-start a debate when he said some condom use may be justified, Vatican insiders say, raising hopes the church may be starting to back away from a complete ban and allow condoms to play a role in the battle against AIDS. Just a year after he said condoms could be maki
- Pope says condoms justified at times to stop HIV
- Associated Press - November 21, 2010
- Frances D'Emilio,Nicole Winfield, Associated Press
- Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI is quoted in a new book as saying that condoms can be justified for male prostitutes seeking to stop the spread of HIV, a stunning comment for a church criticized for its opposition to condoms and for a pontiff who has blamed them for making the AIDS crisis worse. The pope made the comm
- Vatican: nothing changed on condom use
- Associated Press - November 21, 2010
- Vatican City, (AP) - The Vatican on Sunday cautioned that there is nothing revolutionary in Pope Benedict XVI s startling assertion that condom use in exceptional circumstances can be a responsible act in the fight against the spread of HIV. The Holy See s chief spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, issued a statement
- Condom remarks may alter AIDS fight, pope's legacy
- Associated Press - November 21, 2010
- Victor L. Simpson, Associated Press
- Vatican City, (AP) - Vatican officials insist it s nothing revolutionary, but to many other people Pope Benedict XVI s recent comments regarding condom use mark an important moment in the battle against AIDS and an effort by the pontiff to burnish his image and legacy. Just a year after he said condoms could be making
- Burma shuts HIV/AIDS shelter after Suu Kyi visit
- Associated Press - November 21, 2010
- Rangoon, Burma - Burma s government ordered more than 80 people at a shelter for patients with HIV and AIDS to leave following a visit by newly freed democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the center s organizers said Saturday. Suu Kyi, released a week ago from seven years under house arrest, visited the shelter on the out
- Believers find mixed blessings in Pope's comments
- Associated Press - November 21, 2010
- Jeannie Nuss, Associated Press
- Columbus, Ohio (AP) - Some Catholic believers in the Americas greeted Pope Benedict XVI s comments on condoms as a sign that the church was stepping into the modern debate in the fight against AIDS, though the church was adamant Sunday that nothing has changed in its views banning contraception. Churchgoers had praise
- 'Whoonga' drug: a new twist in S.Africa's AIDS war
- Associated Press - November 20, 2010
- Donna Bryson, Associated Press
- JOHANNESBURG, (AP) - AIDS patients in South Africa are being robbed of their lifesaving drugs so that they can be mixed with marijuana and smoked, authorities and health experts say. The concoction is called whoonga -- less a word than an exclamation -- and it adds a bizarre twist to the war on AIDS in the world s wors
- Analysis: Pope's comments add to debate on condoms
- Associated Press - November 20, 2010
- Rachel Zoll, AP Religion Writer
- New York (AP) - With his striking comment on condoms and AIDS, Pope Benedict XVI has started a new chapter in the complex church debate about morality and preventing the spread of HIV. The Roman Catholic prohibition against artificial contraception is not in question, but Benedict could be carving out a very rare excep
- Treating prisoners while jailed could stop disease
- Associated Press - November 18, 2010
- Providing prisoners with better health care could prevent outbreaks of HIV and tuberculosis from spilling over into the general population, experts say. Prisoners typically have higher rates of diseases including AIDS, hepatitis, mental illnesses and tuberculosis. Treating people while they are jailed gives authorities
- Myanmar democracy icon calls her detention illegal
- Associated Press - November 18, 2010
- YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi said Thursday that her recent release from seven years of detention did not signal a softening in the military s harsh, decades-long rule of the Southeast Asian nation. In an interview with The Associated Press, Suu Kyi called her detention illegal and sa
- Aid group trains Swaziland laymen to fight AIDS
- Associated Press - November 17, 2010
- Phathizwe-Chief Zulu, Associated Press
- MBABANE, Swaziland (AP) - Nurses are taking on doctors roles and community leaders are receiving rudimentary medical training to fight AIDS in Swaziland, a tiny kingdom with the world s highest incidence of HIV, an international medical aid group said Wednesday. Doctors Without Borders said in a report that a dire sho
- Koop: AIDS is the 'forgotten epidemic'
- Associated Press - November 17, 2010
- Jennifer C. Kerr
- WASHINGTON, (AP) - Calling it the forgotten epidemic, former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop urged Americans to end what he called complacency about AIDS and put the deadly disease back on the radar screen. Koop, the bearded doctor who sounded the alarm against AIDS nearly three decades ago, joined other doctors Wednes
- US funds circumcision to fight AIDS in Zimbabwe
- Associated Press - November 14, 2010
- Angus Shaw, Associated Press
- HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - The U.S. ranks high on President Robert Mugabe s enemies list, but at ground level it is leading a war on AIDS that may help save the life of 32-year-old Tineyi Marokwe and hundreds of thousands of other Zimbabweans. The weapon is cheap and simple: male circumcision, considered a significant red
- Arizona Becomes 15th State to Approve Medical Marijuana
- Associated Press - November 14, 2010
- PHOENIX (AP) - By a narrow margin, Arizona voters have approved medical marijuana for people with chronic or debilitating diseases. The decision makes Arizona the 15th state to have approved a medical marijuana law. California was the first in 1996, and 13 other states and the District of Columbia followed. The ballot
- Defendant loses China's first HIV jobs bias case
- Associated Press - November 12, 2010
- Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press
- BEIJING, China (AP) - A Chinese court ruled Friday against the defendant in the country s first lawsuit over employment discrimination against people who are HIV-positive, the man s lawyer said. The defendant, identified only by the nickname Little Wu, brought the suit in the eastern city of Anqing after being refused
- China AIDS group says it is forced to shut down
- Associated Press - November 11, 2010
- Cara Anna, Associated Press
- BEIJING, China (AP) - A group founded by well-known imprisoned Chinese activist Hu Jia to work with AIDS patients and orphans said Thursday it is closing down after increasing pressure from tax authorities. Beijing Loving Source appears to be the latest casualty of official suspicion and harassment of activists and gro
- Belgian archbishop sparks furor with views on abortion, gays and pedophilia
- Associated Press - November 10, 2010
- Robert Wielaard
- BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- He calls AIDS a form of justice for homosexuals and wants retired pedophile priests to go unpunished. He says women who have an abortion will be greeted in the afterlife by their unborn child crying Momma! Archbishop Andre Leonard, 70, was plucked from a sleepy Belgian citadel-town by Pope Ben
- Stars of film, music, fashion and sports mix with lesser-known heroines at Glamour awards
- Associated Press - November 9, 2010
- Jocelyn Noveck, AP National Writer
- NEW YORK (AP) -- Constance McMillen was having a pretty amazing night. The 18-year-old from Jackson, Miss., had been just introduced to Julia Roberts. Singer Fergie had praised her in a speech, then sought her out to personally greet her. And oh, yes, she had also stood onstage at Carnegie Hall, in front of a crowd fil
- His majesty? Gambia president may become king
- Associated Press - November 8, 2010
- Artis Henderson, Associated Press
- Dakar, Senegal (AP) - Gambia s president once claimed to have developed a cure for AIDS that involved an herbal body rub and bananas. His administration rounded up nearly 1,000 people last year in a witch hunt. And now he may soon have a new title in this tiny West African nation: His majesty. Tribal chieftains are
- HIV revenge rampage? Kenya police officer kills 10
- Associated Press - November 7, 2010
- Tom Odula, Associated Press
- Nairobi, Kenya (AP) - A police officer who said he was looking for a woman who infected him with HIV rampaged through three bars in a central Kenyan town and killed 10 people, including two fellow officers, officials said Sunday. The shooting spree happened late Saturday in Siakago, 90 miles (150 kilometers) northeast
- Clinic says no new HIV porn cases
- Associated Press - November 5, 2010
- Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Associated Press
- LOS ANGELES (AP) - An adult film actor who tested positive for HIV last month hasn t infected anyone through sexual contact, according to testing at the San Fernando Valley clinic that discovered the case. One of the largest makers of adult films, Vivid Entertainment, announced it will resume production Monday, now tha
- Clinton promotes human rights in Papua New Guinea
- Associated Press - November 3, 2010
- Matthew Lee, Associated Press
- Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday warned the people and government of Papua New Guinea that human rights conditions must improve if the impoverished South Pacific nation, awash in rape, domestic violence and police brutality, is to develop.
- Belgian archbishop's spokesman quits
- Associated Press - November 2, 2010
- BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The spokesman for the arch-conservative leader of Belgium s Roman Catholic Church has resigned after his boss defended priests accused of pedophilia and criticized AIDS patients. Spokesman Juergen Mettepenningen told reporters that he no longer can work for Archbishop Andre Leonard. Tuesday
- Court to decide university patent case
- Associated Press - November 1, 2010
- WASHINGTON, (AP) - The Supreme Court will decide whether patents on inventions that arise from federally-funded research must go to the university where the inventor worked. The high court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal from Stanford University. Stanford sued pharmacutical giant Roche over the alleged infringement
- Miami VA head returns after colonoscopy scandal
- Associated Press - October 30, 2010
- The head of the veterans health care system in Miami is back on the job three months after she was reassigned because thousands of South Florida veterans were given colonoscopies with improperly cleaned equipment. Mary Berrocal returned Friday as director of the Miami Veterans Administration Healthcare System. She was
- China Red Cross calls for urgent blood donations
- Associated Press - October 29, 2010
- Chi-Chi Zhang
- BEIJING -- China s Red Cross asked citizens around the country Friday to urgently donate blood because of an acute shortage that has prompted delays in some surgeries. An emergency notice on the agency s website said blood was in especially short supply this year and called for emergency measures, such as blood drives,
- Gates experimental grants move to the next level with more money for promising projects
- Associated Press - October 27, 2010
- Donna Gordon Blankinship, Associated Press
- SEATTLE (AP) -- A night light that scares away mosquitoes possibly carrying malaria is among nine ideas the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation thinks are worth more research dollars, after giving more than 300 scientists seed money to take an initial look at some far-out notions. The nine scientists will each get up t
- Rift between health advocates and porn industry
- Associated Press - October 26, 2010
- Oakland, Calif. (AP) - There s a deep rift between California health advocates and the porn industry over condom use in sex films. Workplace regulators and pornography industry representatives gathered for a Monday workshop in Oakland to air disagreements about industry practices, existing laws and the possibility of e
- Swiss Catholics split over condom distribution
- Associated Press - October 25, 2010
- GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) - A Catholic church in the central Swiss city of Lucerne has sparked controversy among believers with an AIDS awareness campaign that involves distributing to teenagers condoms bearing the slogan protect thy neighbor as thyself. The church plans to hand out 3,000 condoms as part of an effort to
- Air Force court martials HIV-positive Kan. airman
- Associated Press - October 22, 2010
- Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press Writer
- Wichita, Kan. (AP) - A Kansas airman accused of having unprotected sex without telling his partners he was HIV-positive will face a general court martial, the Air Force said Friday. Tech. Sgt. David Gutierrez, 43, is accused of violating military law by having unprotected sex with multiple people, including some he all
- LA clinic says actors have tested negative for HIV
- Associated Press - October 22, 2010
- Los Angeles, CA (AP) - A Los Angeles clinic where a porn actor tested positive for HIV says tests have come back negative for other actors who performed with the individual. Vivid Entertainment tells the Los Angeles Times it was notified Friday by the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation that none of the actors
- FDA Warns of Heart Risk With HIV Drug Combination
- Associated Press - October 21, 2010
- WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration warned doctors and HIV patients Thursday that two antiviral drugs can cause dangerous heart rhythms when they are combined. The agency says the combination of Roche s Invirase and Abbott Laboratories Norvir can trigger irregular h
- UIC gets $7 million NIH grant to study HIV in inmates; aim is to increase detection, treatment
- Associated Press - October 20, 2010
- CHICAGO (AP) -- HIV-infected inmates at Illinois prisons are the focus of research that just got a big federal boost. The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $7 million grant to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. They ll use the money to study better ways to find, test and treat infected inma
- Fed court upholds stiff Medicare scam sentence
- Associated Press - October 19, 2010
- A federal appeals panel upheld stiff prison sentences given to a Miami doctor and a nurse who worked at a bogus HIV clinic involved in a multimillion dollar Medicare fraud. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta on Tuesday upheld the 30-year sentence given to Ana Alvarez and 7-year sentence imposed on nurse Sandr
- Elton John says America needs more compassion
- Associated Press - October 19, 2010
- Nekesa Mumbi Moody, AP Music Writer
- NEW YORK, (AP) - Elton John says he s heartbroken by a mean tone that he says is enveloping America. John spoke at his annual Elton John AIDS Foundation benefit Monday night and honored the memory of AIDS activist Ryan White, who died 20 years ago. The teen contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion and faced ostracis
- Medicare fraud gets ex-ballplayer 20-year sentence
- Associated Press - October 15, 2010
- A former minor-league baseball player has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for a multimillion-dollar Medicare fraud scheme. A Miami federal judge imposed the sentence Thursday on 38-year-old Ihosvany Marquez. Prosecutors say Marquez stole more than $21 million using seven clinics to submit false claims for H
- Palin parody porn actress calls for condom use
- Associated Press - October 14, 2010
- Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Associated Press Writer
- Los Angeles, CA (AP) - A porn star perhaps best known for her parodies of Sarah Palin says actors in adult entertainment must demand condom use during shoots in the wake of a California actor being diagnosed HIV positive. The actress, whose stage name is Lisa Ann, said Thursday she will refuse pressure from production
- WHO: 1 billion suffer from hidden tropical disease
- Associated Press - October 14, 2010
- Colleen Barry, Associated Press Writer
- GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) - The World Health Organization estimated Thursday that 1 billion of the world s poorest people suffer from neglected tropical diseases such as dengue, rabies and leprosy that remain concentrated in remote rural areas and urban slums despite being mostly eradicated from large areas of the world
- 1 in 22 blacks will get HIV, CDC report says
- Associated Press - October 14, 2010
- ATLANTA, (AP) - Health officials estimate that 1 in 22 black Americans will be diagnosed with the AIDS virus in their lifetime - more than twice the risk for Hispanics and eight times that of whites. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the numbers Thursday. The report says the lifetime risk is 1 in
- Positive HIV test halts porn shoots at 5 companies
- Associated Press - October 13, 2010
- Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Associated Press Writer
- LOS ANGELES (AP) - At least five companies in California s multibillion-dollar adult entertainment industry have halted production after an actor tested positive for HIV, and more shutdowns were possible, the head of a major production company said Wednesday. The actor s identity and gender have not been released by th
- Porn star clinic calls critics self-serving, wrong
- Associated Press - October 13, 2010
- Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Associated Press Writer
- LOS ANGELES, (AP) - Lawyers for the clinic where a porn actor was diagnosed HIV positive this week say the San Fernando Valley clinic is in full compliance with state and federal laws about privacy and reporting. In a written statement, lawyers for the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation say their patient s po
- South Africa to test all HIV patients for TB
- Associated Press - October 13, 2010
- Jenny Gross, Associated Press Writer
- JOHANNESBURG, (AP) - Health officials in South Africa said Wednesday they recommend screening all HIV patients for tuberculosis and want automatic TB tests for HIV patients to become normal procedure within five years. UNAIDS official Paul De Lay said that by 2015, all TB patients in South Africa should be automaticall
- Positive HIV test halts porn shoots at companies
- Associated Press - October 13, 2010
- Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Associated Press Writer
- LOS ANGELES (AP) - More than half a dozen pornographers in California s multibillion-dollar adult entertainment industry have halted production after an actor tested positive for HIV — and more shutdowns were expected. Vivid Entertainment Group and Wicked Pictures were among the companies that announced production halt
- Calif. porn actor tests positive for HIV
- Associated Press - October 12, 2010
- LOS ANGELES (AP) - A porn actor has tested positive for HIV at a California clinic, resulting in testing and quarantine for all partners who may have been exposed. The Los Angeles Times reports that the identity and gender of the actor have not been released, but the person was treated by the Adult Industry Medical Hea
- Zimbabwe's health services need $700 million
- Associated Press - October 8, 2010
- HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Zimbabwe s health minister says the southern African country needs $700 million to restore health services shattered by a decade of political and economic turmoil. At the launch Friday of the nation s biggest health investment and funding appeal, Dr. Henry Madzorera said the systematic decrease
- Report: Another lawsuit alleges Alomar has HIV
- Associated Press - October 7, 2010
- New York (AP) - Roberto Alomar s wife has accused the former baseball star in divorce papers of having unprotected sex with her despite knowing that he is HIV-positive. The New York Post reported Thursday that Maria Del Pilar Rivera Alomar filed paperwork in Florida alleging Alomar knew prior to his first sexual contac
- Zimbabwe broadcaster warns against media bribes
- Associated Press - October 7, 2010
- HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Zimbabwe s state broadcaster says it has warned low-paid journalists to stop taking bribes from politicians or selling information to online news sites. Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corp. head Happison Muchetetere said the television and radio broadcast station uncovered enticements received by staff
- Obama honors Archbishop Desmond Tutu as he retires
- Associated Press - October 7, 2010
- WASHINGTON, (AP) - President Barack Obama says South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu is a moral titan who will be missed as he formally retires from public life on his 79th birthday Thursday. Obama says the Nobel peace laureate has been a voice of principle, an unrelenting champion of justice and a dedicated peacemaker
- Donors pledge $11.7 billion to fight AIDS, TB and malaria, far below $17 billion needed
- Associated Press - October 5, 2010
- Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Writer
- UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Donors committed $11.7 billion on Tuesday to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria for the next three years, far below the $17 billion needed to meet U.N. goals to slow and beat the killer diseases. The contributions to The Global Fund to fight the three pandemics represented a more than 20 percen
- Women testify they wouldn't have had sex with Kansas airman if they'd known his HIV status
- Associated Press - October 5, 2010
- Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press Writer
- WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- Two women testified at a military hearing Tuesday that they would not have had sex with an airman had they known he was HIV positive, and one said she believed him when he said he wasn t because he was in the Air Force. Tech Sgt. David Gutierrez has been charged with violating military law by havi
- FDA issues warning letter to Gilead Sciences over quality control problems at Calif. plant
- Associated Press - October 5, 2010
- Matthew Perrone, AP Health Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health regulators are warning biotech drug maker Gilead Sciences Inc. about quality control violations at a California factory. The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday posted a warning letter on its website, outlining more than a half-dozen problems uncovered by inspectors on a routine vi
- California man who cited HIV panic convicted of killing sex client over valuable flutes
- Associated Press - October 4, 2010
- MARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) -- A Northern California man has been convicted of killing a retiree as part of an elaborate plan to steal the older man s sterling silver and solid gold flutes. A Contra Costa County jury deliberated for about two days before finding 24-year-old Alejandro Hernandez Rivera of Vallejo guilty of fir
- Indonesian minister draws fire for AIDS comment
- Associated Press - October 4, 2010
- Irwan Firdaus, Associated Press Writer
- JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - An Indonesian government minister who has in the past blamed natural disasters on immorality has caused more controversy by posting anti-gay comments on Twitter and joking about people with AIDS. Tifatul Sembiring, who is information minister and also a member of the National AIDS commission,
- New survey on sex in US, biggest since 1994
- Associated Press - October 4, 2010
- David Crary, AP National Writer
- NEW YORK, (AP) - The male-female orgasm gap. The sex lives of 14-year-olds. An intriguing breakdown of condom usage rates, by age and ethnicity, with teens emerging as more safe-sex-conscious than boomers. That s just a tiny sampling of the data being unveiled Monday in what the researchers say is the largest, most com
- SAfrican AIDS orphans aging
- Associated Press - September 30, 2010
- Jenny Gross, Associated Press Writer
- PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - When the Mohau children s home opened in 1997, orphans with AIDS died every other day. But these days, not one child has been lost in seven years -- and as they age with the help of drugs they face the teen complexities of dating and sex. As the population of children affected by HIV/AIDS
- Malawi adopts UN guidelines on AIDS
- Associated Press - September 29, 2010
- BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) - Malawi s vice president says her AIDS-ravaged southern African country will adopt the latest U.N. health guidelines that call for putting HIV-positive people on drugs sooner. That means some 500,000 Malawians could be on AIDS drugs by July, double the number now being treated. Still, nearly a mi
- Iowa health efforts get $720,000 in federal money
- Associated Press - September 28, 2010
- DES MOINES, Iowa - HIV surveillance, tobacco prevention and infectious disease responses are among the Iowa projects that will receive about $720,000 in funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Iowa Department of Public Health announced the funding Tuesday, saying it comes through the Affordable
- More HIV care for pregnant women in poor countries
- Associated Press - September 28, 2010
- WASHINGTON, (AP) - Just over half of HIV-infected pregnant women in poor countries received crucial AIDS drugs to protect their unborn children last year, the World Health Organization reported Tuesday — one of a list of improvements in the global fight against HIV. Fifteen percent of infected pregnant women had access
- 44 pct of gay, bisexual men with HIV don't know it
- Associated Press - September 23, 2010
- Mike Stobbe, AP Medical Writer
- ATLANTA (AP) - One in five sexually active gay and bisexual men has the AIDS virus, and nearly half of those don t know they are infected, a federal study of 21 U.S. cities shows. Experts said the findings are similar to earlier research, but the study released Thursday is the largest to look at gay and bisexual U.S. m
- Study: 1 in 5 urban gay and bisexual men got HIV
- Associated Press - September 23, 2010
- Mike Stobbe, AP Medical Writer
- ATLANTA, (AP) - A government study found one in five sexually active urban gay and bisexual men is infected with HIV, and nearly half of those infected don t know they have the disease. The study is considered the largest to look at urban gay and bisexual men at high risk for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. More than
- Health law brings preventive care without copays
- Associated Press - September 22, 2010
- Carla K. Johnson, AP Medical Writer
- New health insurance policies beginning on or after Sept. 23 must cover - without charge - preventive care that s backed up by the best scientific evidence. Most people will see this benefit, part of the Obama administration s health care overhaul, starting Jan. 1. The list includes tests strongly recommended by the U.
- Obama heckled on AIDS, gay rights at fundraiser
- Associated Press - September 22, 2010
- Mark S. Smith, Associated Press Writer
- New York (AP) - President Barack Obama got heckled at a fundraiser Wednesday night by protesters pushing for more funding for AIDS programs and quicker action to allow gays to serve openly in the military. Activists yelled slogans and held signs aloft reading Obama broken promises KILL. Supporters of the president trie
- Chimps' future prompts debate over NM primate lab
- Associated Press - September 22, 2010
- Tim Korte, Associated Press Writer
- Albuquerque, N.M. (AP) - A decision to move 186 chimpanzees from a southern New Mexico facility to Texas is pitting government officials and scientists against a coalition of elected officials and animal rights advocates, including New Mexico s governor and also famed primate researcher Dr. Jane Goodall. The chimps hav
- UN promotes health campaign for women, children
- Associated Press - September 22, 2010
- Anita Snow, Associated Press Writer
- UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The world s nations pledged more than $40 billion to battle needless deaths among poor mothers and their children, and President Barack Obama spoke about what America can do to help the U.N. s ambitious development goals. But the struggling world economy, particularly in the United Stat
- Zimbabwe drops charges against US health workers
- Associated Press - September 22, 2010
- HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - An attorney for four American volunteer health workers says Zimbabwe has dropped charges against them alleging they worked at an HIV/AIDS clinic and orphanage without proper medical licenses. Lawyer Jonathan Samukange said the four were given their passports back and plan to fly back to the U.S.
- Sarkozy boosts France's pledge of aid to poor
- Associated Press - September 21, 2010
- Anita Snow, Associated Press
- United Nations -- The 10-year-old promise to lift the world s poorest is unfulfilled and with world economies clawing back from the worst recession since World War II, the French president and others implored leaders on Monday not to return to their old bad habits of ignoring global poverty. Nicolas Sarkozy, the French
- Kan. airman with HIV charged with assault for sex
- Associated Press - September 21, 2010
- Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press Writer
- Wichita, Kan. (AP) - An airman in Kansas has been charged with assault and related crimes for having unprotected sex without telling his partners he was HIV positive, the Air Force said Tuesday. Tech. Sgt. David Gutierrez, 43, is accused of violating military law by having unprotected sex with at least 11 different peo
- SC prisons brace for lawsuit over inmates with HIV
- Associated Press - September 21, 2010
- Meg Kinnard, Associated Press Writer
- Columbia, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina prison officials say they have no plans to stop segregating HIV-positive inmates despite the threat of a lawsuit by the U.S. Justice Department. The state faces a Wednesday deadline to change the practice, which prison officials say is best for inmates and prison employees. All stat
- World leaders to spotlight goals to help poor
- Associated Press - September 18, 2010
- Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Writer
- UNITED NATIONS, (AP) - At the dawn of the new millennium, world leaders pledged to tackle poverty, disease, ignorance and inequality -- and went beyond generalities to commit themselves to specific goals. Progress has been made over the past decade, but many countries are still struggling to meet the 2015 target. On Mo
- Malawi rules out circumcision for AIDS prevention
- Associated Press - September 16, 2010
- Raphael Tenthani, Associated Press Writer
- BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) - Malawi will not officially promote male circumcision as an HIV-prevention strategy, two officials said Wednesday, citing a lack of evidence to support the practice. We have no scientific evidence that circumcision is a sure way of slowing down the spread of AIDS, said Dr. Mary Shaba, a top HIV/
- Mich. judge says medical-marijuana law needs help
- Associated Press - September 15, 2010
- Ed White, Associated Press Writer
- DETROIT - A Michigan appeals court judge sounded an alarm Wednesday over the state s medical-marijuana law, issuing an extraordinary 30-page opinion that called the law a complex maze and urged state officials to set clear rules. Judge Peter O Connell was part of a three-judge panel that affirmed a decision by a lower
- New UN drugs czar from Russia takes office
- Associated Press - September 13, 2010
- Veronika Oleksyn, Associated Press Writer
- VIENNA, Austria (AP) - A Russian diplomat pledged to focus on public health and human rights Monday on his first day as the U.N. s new drugs and crime czar. Yury Fedotov, a veteran diplomat who until recently was the Kremlin s top envoy to Britain, replaced Italy s Antonio Maria Costa as the head of the U.N. Office on
- Church prays Zimbabwe will free members soon
- Associated Press - September 13, 2010
- Donna Bryson, Associated Press
- Johannesburg - An Oakland church wants to get back to helping AIDS orphans in Africa, once it resolves questions over licensing that led to the arrests of six of its workers in impoverished Zimbabwe , a minister said Sunday. The six - five Americans and a Zimbabwean - were arrested Friday and have been held at Harare C
- Zimbabwe court frees on bail US health workers
- Associated Press - September 13, 2010
- Chengetai Zvauya, Associated Press Writer
- HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - A Zimbabwean court on Monday freed on bail four Americans arrested and accused of treating AIDS patients without proper medical licenses. A magistrate ordered the six health workers, who included a New Zealand national and a Zimbabwean, to pay a $200 bail and to reappear in court on Sept.
- AIDS doctors, activists call for more health funds
- Associated Press - September 10, 2010
- Donna Bryson, Associated Press Writer
- JOHANNESBURG, (AP) - Doctors and AIDS activists on Friday urged African governments to fulfill a decade-old pledge to spend more of their own money on health if they want international help in fighting AIDS. Graca Machel, a longtime advocate for children in her homeland of Mozambique and around the world, told repo
- Groups allege Calif agency shared HIV patient data
- Associated Press - September 9, 2010
- Lisa Leff, Associated Press Writer
- San Francisco, CA (AP) - California health officials violated state privacy laws by giving personal information about thousands of HIV-positive welfare recipients to a nonprofit group that serves people infected with the virus, three legal groups alleged Thursday. The ACLU of Northern California, Lambda Legal and the A
- Senegal prostitutes look forward to Ramadan's end
- Associated Press - September 8, 2010
- Artis Henderson, Associated Press Writer
- DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Wearing white to symbolize purity, worshippers throughout this African capital gathered to pray on one of the final nights of Ramadan. To purify the soul and purge sin, they hadn t eaten all day and refrained from drinking, smoking and having sex -- which during the holy month is only allowed amon
- J&J giving $200 million for health of women, kids
- Associated Press - September 8, 2010
- Linda A. Johnson, AP Business Writer
- Trenton, N.J. (AP) - Health giant Johnson & Johnson is donating about $200 million in cash and medicine to a sweeping United Nations program created to improve the health and lives of people in poor countries. J&J is launching a five-year program called Every Mother, Every Child, meant to help almost 400 milli
- JetBlue Flight Attendant To Be Mentally Evaluated
- Associated Press - September 7, 2010
- Colleen Long, Associated Press Writer
- NEW YORK (AP) - The flight attendant accused of onboard antics that captured the nation s attention when he told off a passenger and slid down the plane s emergency chute with a beer will undergo a mental health evaluation with the aim of avoiding jail time in a possible plea deal. Steven Slater, dressed in a trim blue
- DC Council chairman has legitimate shot at unseating incumbent Fenty in Washington mayor race
- Associated Press - August 31, 2010
- Jessica Gresko, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) -- The man who runs Washington is in danger of losing his job in a hotly contested election, but the post that s up for grabs isn t president. It s mayor. The winner of the election will have to deal with the city s serious problems: high poverty rates, high unemployment and epidemic numbers of people w
- Air Force: Sergeant may have exposed others to HIV
- Associated Press - August 31, 2010
- Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press Writer
- Wichita, Kan. (AP) - The military has arrested an Air Force sergeant and accused him of having unprotected sex with partners he met at swinger parties in central Kansas even though he knew he was HIV positive, according to a military affidavit. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations said Tuesday the man has not
- HIV discrimination case filed in China
- Associated Press - August 30, 2010
- BEIJING, China (AP) - A municipal court in central China has accepted the country s first lawsuit alleging work discrimination because of HIV status, state media reported Tuesday. The China Daily newspaper said a court in Anhui province s Anqing city accepted the case Monday. The plaintiff, who was not identified by na
- Father seeks China AIDS activist's release
- Associated Press - August 30, 2010
- Anita Chang, Associated Press Writer
- BEIJING, China (AP) - A Chinese AIDS activist jailed after a run-in with a hospital administrator is in poor health but has vowed to keep fighting for compensation after being infected by tainted blood during a childhood transfusion, his father said Monday. Tian Xi was taken into custody earlier this month after he los
- 'Sesame Street,' with a Nigerian twist
- Associated Press - August 28, 2010
- Jon Gambrell, Associated Press
- A new program, Sesame Square features two muppets who talk about being HIV-positive and the importance of mosquito nets to curb malaria. And of course yams, the national staple. Reporting from Lagos, Nigeria - It looks a lot like Sesame Street, only that s no Cookie Monster. What is so exciting about yams? Everyth
- AIDS activists file complaint against Larry Flynt
- Associated Press - August 27, 2010
- John Rogers, Associated Press Writer
- LOS ANGELES, (AP) - An AIDS activist group filed a workplace safety complaint against Larry Flynt, accusing the porn king of creating an unsafe environment for his stable of sex stars by not requiring they use condoms. To illustrate its point, the AIDS Health Foundation also delivered 100 DVDS of hardcore Flynt films t
- German court finds girl-band singer guilty of infecting partner with HIV, gets no jail time
- Associated Press - August 26, 2010
- Christoph Noelting, Associated Press Writer
- DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) - A German girl band singer broke down in tears Thursday as a court found her guilty of causing bodily harm to her ex-boyfriend by having unprotected sex with him despite knowing she was infected with HIV. She was not sentenced to jail time. Nadja Benaissa, a member of No Angels, was given a two
- German prosecutors: No jail time for HIV singer
- Associated Press - August 25, 2010
- DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) - German prosecutors and defense attorneys on Wednesday recommended no prison time for a girl-band singer accused of causing bodily harm to her ex-boyfriend by allegedly infecting him with HIV. Both sides in closing arguments suggested a two-year suspended sentence for 28-year-old Nadja Benaissa
- Prosecutors, defense: no prison time for Benaissa
- Associated Press - August 25, 2010
- DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) - German prosecutors and defense attorneys are recommending no prison time for a singer accused of causing bodily harm to a man by allegedly infecting him with HIV. Both sides in closing arguments Wednesday suggested a two-year suspended sentence for 28-year-old Nadja Benaissa, a member of Germa
- AIDS patients hurt by South African strike
- Associated Press - August 25, 2010
- Donna Bryson, Associated Press Writer
- JOHANNESBURG, (AP) - Doctors and activists say AIDS patients aren t getting treated because of a nationwide civil service strike in South Africa , the country with the most people infected with the virus that causes AIDS. Dr. Ashraf Coovadia said Wednesday his HIV and AIDS clinic at a Johannesburg hospital usually sees
- Merck, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation commit $60M to Botswana HIV/AIDS partnerships
- Associated Press - August 24, 2010
- WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. (AP) -- Drugmaker Merck & Co. Inc. said Tuesday its foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will commit an additional $60 million to Botswana s African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships. Merck said it made an initial investment of $56.5 million nine years ago and will contr
- Bono, Medvedev talk charity over tea by the sea
- Associated Press - August 24, 2010
- David Nowak, Associated Press Writer
- MOSCOW, Russia (AP) - Russia s rock-music-loving president hosted Bono, the frontman of the Irish band U2, at his resplendent residence near the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Tuesday, and praised him for writing music that unites generations. Dmitry Medvedev, a well-known fan of the classic rock acts Deep Purple and Led
- Report cites Wis. hospital for reused syringe
- Associated Press - August 21, 2010
- MADISON, Wis. - The state Department of Health Services cited the University of Wisconsin Hospital for four deficiencies after a syringe was reused on a second person, requiring at least one patient to undergo testing for infectious diseases. The state released a report Friday detailing the events that led up to last m
- Kenyan court gives 8-month sentence to 2 tuberculosis patients for skipping their medications
- Associated Press - August 21, 2010
- Tom Odula, Associated Press Writer
- NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A court has sentenced two tuberculosis patients who skipped their medications to spend eight months in prison to avoid spreading the deadly disease among the public, a senior health official said Saturday. The male patients were locked up in Kapsabet prison in western Kenya nearly 10 days ago to
- Chinese AIDS activist who caught the virus as a boy is detained by police, colleagues say
- Associated Press - August 21, 2010
- BEIJING (AP) -- Police in central China have detained an AIDS activist who contracted the virus as a boy and whose tireless campaigning for the rights of those with the disease angered local authorities, his fellow activists said Saturday. Under pressure to end Tian Xi s campaigning, police from his home town of Gulu d
- UW Hospital examines why same syringe used on 2 people; 1 to be tested for hepatitis, HIV
- Associated Press - August 7, 2010
- MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison is investigating why a syringe was reused, a discovery that means one patient has to be tested for hepatitis and HIV. UW Hospital spokeswoman Toni Morrissey said Friday the incident involves the reuse of a needleless syringe attached to an intravenou
- In DC, no such thing as too poor for medical pot
- Associated Press - August 4, 2010
- WASHINGTON - No one should be too poor to buy pot if they live in Washington, at least if the marijuana is for a medical condition. That s the conclusion of a new medical marijuana law enacted in the nation s capital. The District of Columbia passed a law earlier this year that allows residents to legally obtain the dr
- 4 positive tests of St. Louis vets
- Associated Press - July 30, 2010
- Jim Salter, Associated Press Writer
- ST. LOUIS - Four veterans treated at the St. Louis VA Medical Center s dental clinic have tested positive for hepatitis, but further testing will be necessary to determine if inadequately sterilized dental equipment is to blame, VA officials said Friday. The Department of Veterans Affairs provided test results to The A
- Go on, give it a try: DC works to educate women on female condom use to fight HIV epidemic
- Associated Press - July 29, 2010
- Jessica Gresko, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) -- Charlene Cotton will talk to anyone about sex. Several days a week she stands behind a table decorated with a bowl of flavored condoms and safer sex pamphlets, calling to women passing on the street, Come check out my table. Don t be scared. She asks: Have you heard of the female condom? Then, to sho
- California pressures drug maker on AIDS drug costs
- Associated Press - July 29, 2010
- Sacramento, Calif. (AP) - California is pressuring Bristol-Myers Squibb to reduce the cost of a key AIDS medication. The drug giant s Reyataz is one of the most common drugs to treat AIDS patients, and it s the most costly with an average wholesale price of $13,046 a year. State Controller John Chiang wrote Bristol-Mye
- State officials launch HIV, Hepatitis C remote treatment program for Illinois inmates
- Associated Press - July 28, 2010
- CHICAGO (AP) -- State officials have started a telemedicine pilot program to treat HIV and Hepatitis C at three Illinois correctional centers and hope to expand the program. The Illinois Department of Corrections and University of Illinois at Chicago have partnered for it. It s called the Telemedicine Pilot Program an
- DC pushes female condoms to fight HIV epidemic
- Associated Press - July 28, 2010
- Jessica Gresko, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) - Charlene Cotton will talk to anyone about sex. Several days a week she stands behind a table decorated with a bowl of flavored condoms and safer sex pamphlets, calling to women passing on the street, Come check out my table. Don t be scared. She asks: Have you heard of the female condom? Then, to show
- Russia, US uncover nascent cocaine trade scheme
- Associated Press - July 26, 2010
- Nataliya Vasilyeva, Associated Press Writer
- MOSCOW, Russia (AP) - Russia and the United States have uncovered a cocaine trade scheme involving a high-profile Russian impresario eager to set up business in Moscow s expensive night clubs, Russia s top drugs control officer said Monday. Russians sprang into action after U.S. officials tipped them off about a 30-yea
- Novel program rescues Skid Row's most vulnerable
- Associated Press - July 25, 2010
- Christina Hoag, Associated Press Writer
- Los Angeles, CA (AP) - After living two decades on the streets of Skid Row, Sheila Nichols was dying. Her body had withered to 61 pounds, ravaged by a heavy-duty crack cocaine addiction, hepatitis, HIV, and late-stage syphilis, when late one night a stranger offered her a sandwich and, just maybe, survival. Two years l
- U.N. expert: AIDS crisis in the world's prisons
- Associated Press - July 23, 2010
- Veronika Oleksyn, Associated Press Writer
- The U.N. s top investigator on torture and punishment warned Friday that overcrowded prisons are breeding grounds for AIDS. Often, inmates are held in inhumane conditions in which the HIV virus is spread through the use of non-sterile drug injection equipment, sexual contacts, tattooing and sharing of razors, Manfred N
- Rich countries must increase AIDS support
- Associated Press - July 23, 2010
- Veronika Oleksyn, Associated Press
- Vienna - Rich countries must give more for the fight against AIDS or risk jeopardizing progress in battling the disease, participants at an international conference urged Thursday. At issue is the replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which provides major support for AIDS programs ar
- Obama, Clinton pledge US support for AIDS fight
- Associated Press - July 23, 2010
- Veronika Oleksyn, Associated Press Writer
- VIENNA (AP) - President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton have pledged the support of the United States in the global fight against AIDS. Speaking Friday via prerecorded video at the close of an international conference dedicated to the disease, the two said they were committed to building upon
- Bristol-Myers posts 6 percent drop in 2Q profit
- Associated Press - July 22, 2010
- Linda A. Johnson, AP Business Writer
- Trenton, N.J. (AP) - Drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. said Thursday its second-quarter sales rose slightly but profit was down nearly 6 percent, due to the loss of income from its former nutrition business, spun off late last year. Bristol, which sells blockbuster blood thinner Plavix and Abilify for psychiatric diso
- Funding woes overshadow AIDS conference
- Associated Press - July 22, 2010
- Veronika Oleksyn, Associated Press Writer
- VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Rich countries must give more for the fight against AIDS or risk jeopardizing progress in battling the disease, participants at an international conference urged Thursday. At issue is the replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which provides major support for AI
- UN taps big names for HIV prevention panel
- Associated Press - July 21, 2010
- The U.N. AIDS agency has tapped some big names - including former basketball star Magic Johnson - to boost global efforts to prevent the spread of HIV. Others on the UNAIDS commission include former French president Jacques Chirac, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and Nobel laureates scientist Francoise Barre-Sinoussi
- Panama first lady raising money to deliver medical supplies to homeland's indigenous people
- Associated Press - July 21, 2010
- DENVER (AP) -- The first lady of Panama says money raised at a Denver luncheon will provide help to indigenous people in her country. First lady Marta Martinelli spoke Wednesday at a Project CURE fundraiser, which is expected to raise money to deliver $3 million worth of medical supplies.
- Thousands attend AIDS rally in Austria
- Associated Press - July 20, 2010
- Veronika Oleksyn, Associated Press Writer
- Thousands of AIDS activists rallied in downtown Vienna with singer Annie Lennox Tuesday to demand more rights for people with the disease. The crowd - many carrying banners, waving flags and blowing on whistles - appealed for an end to discrimination and access to treatment for all those infected with the virus. Gath
- AIDS spreading in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- Associated Press - July 20, 2010
- Veronika Oleksyn, Associated Press Writer
- VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Experts and activists are warning that AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is on the rise even as a global conference reports progress on other fronts. An estimated 1.5 million adults and children were living with HIV in the region in 2008, a 66 percent increase from 900,000 in 2001, accordin
- Judge allows NY to pursue civil confinement of sex offender who infected women with AIDS virus
- Associated Press - July 19, 2010
- Carolyn Thompson, Associated Press Writer
- BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- The state can try to keep a sex offender who infected at least 13 women with the AIDS virus locked up beyond the 12-year prison sentence he completed in April, a judge ruled Monday. Prosecutors can use the state s civil-confinement law -- meant to keep the most dangerous sex offenders out of commu
- In US cities, HIV linked more to poverty than race
- Associated Press - July 19, 2010
- Mike Stobbe, AP Medical Writer
- ATLANTA (AP) - Poverty is perhaps the most important factor in whether inner-city heterosexuals are infected with the AIDS virus, according to the first government study of its kind. The study, released Monday, suggests that HIV is epidemic in certain poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods. And, more significantly, poor
- AIDS study: Treatment lowers infection risk
- Associated Press - July 19, 2010
- Marilynn Marchione, Associated Press
- Provocative new research shows that treating people with the AIDS virus can provide a powerful bonus: It cuts the risk that they will infect others. New infections plummeted in parts of Canada as more people went on AIDS drugs, which lowered the amount of virus they had and the chances they would spread it, the study f
- WHO: 5.2 million people on AIDS drugs in 2009
- Associated Press - July 19, 2010
- Veronika Oleksyn, Associated Press Writer
- VIENNA, Austria (AP) - The number of people taking crucial AIDS drugs climbed by a record 1.2 million last year to 5.2 million overall, the World Health Organization said Monday -- but Bill Clinton says that s still not nearly enough. Between 2003 and 2010, the number of patients receiving lifesaving antiretroviral tre
- Bill Clinton, Gates: Fight AIDS more efficiently
- Associated Press - July 19, 2010
- Veronika Oleksyn, Associated Press Writer
- Austria (AP) - Two heavy hitters on the world health stage -- Bill Clinton and Bill Gates -- called Monday for a more efficient fight worldwide against the AIDS virus. In separate speeches at an international AIDS conference in the Austrian capital, the former American president railed against spending too much money
- AIDS breakthrough: African study offers hope to women by helping prevent HIV, herpes
- Associated Press - July 19, 2010
- Marilynn Marchione, AP Medical Writer
- For the first time, a vaginal gel has proved capable of blocking the AIDS virus: It cut in half a woman s chances of getting HIV from an infected partner in a study in South Africa . Scientists called it a breakthrough in the long quest for a tool to help women whose partners won t use condoms. The results need to
- Treating HIV also prevents its spread, study finds
- Associated Press - July 18, 2010
- Marilynn Marchione, AP Medical Writer
- Provocative new research shows that treating people with the AIDS virus can provide a powerful bonus: It cuts the risk that they will infect others. New infections plummeted in parts of Canada as more people went on AIDS drugs, which lowered the amount of virus they had and the chances they would spread it, the study f
- AIDS conference chief lashes out at world leaders
- Associated Press - July 18, 2010
- Veronika Oleksyn, Associated Press Writer
- VIENNA, Austria (AP) - World leaders lack the political will to ensure that everyone infected with HIV and AIDS gets treatment, the head of a meeting dedicated to the disease said Sunday. Julio Montaner - the president of the International AIDS Society and chairman of the AIDS 2010 conference - said the G-8 group of ri
- Uzbek women accuse state of mass sterilizations
- Associated Press - July 17, 2010
- Mansur Mirovalev, Associated Press Writer
- GULISTAN, Uzbekistan (AP) - Saodat Rakhimbayeva says she wishes she had died with her newborn baby. The 24-year-old housewife had a cesarean section in March and gave birth to Ibrohim, a premature boy who died three days later. Then came a further devastating blow: She learned that the surgeon had removed part of her u
- Storm cuts short start of Austrian Life Ball
- Associated Press - July 17, 2010
- VIENNA (AP) -- A thunderstorm has cut short the star-studded opening of a flashy Austrian AIDS charity gala known as the Life Ball. Appearances by former U.S. President Bill Clinton, burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese and Patti LaBelle - among other celebrities - had to be skipped after authorities issued a weather warnin
- US pushing UN status for gay rights group
- Associated Press - July 16, 2010
- Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Writer
- UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The Obama administration and 14 members of the U.S. Congress are urging the U.N. Economic and Social Council to accredit the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission so it can work at the United Nations. The U.S.-based organization, which has offices in South Africa ,
- Keys, Sade, Jay-Z to perform at charity ball in NY
- Associated Press - July 14, 2010
- NEW YORK - Alicia Keys, Jay-Z and Sade Adu (shah-DAY ah-DOO ) will join musical forces later this year for charity. Keys has recruited Jay-Z and Sade to perform at her charity s annual Black Ball on Sept. 30 at New York s Hammerstein Ball. Keys will also hit the stage. The foundation, Keep a Child Alive, is celebrating
- Obama calls for political will to increase efforts in preventing HIV/AIDS and improving care
- Associated Press - July 13, 2010
- Julie Pace, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Tuesday a new strategy for combating HIV and AIDS fulfills America s obligation to stopping the spread of the virus and rooting out the inequities and attitudes on which it thrives. The strategy sets a goal of reducing new infections by 25 percent over the next five years;
- Obama to discuss Senate's legislative priorities, meet with Gates, announce new HIV strategy
- Associated Press - July 13, 2010
- WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will meet Tuesday with the Senate Democratic leadership. They ll discuss legislative priorities before Congress takes its August break. Obama and Biden will later meet with Defense Secretary Robert Gates. In the evening, the president will discuss a
- St. Louis VA dental technician says she warned supervisors of sterilization issues months ago
- Associated Press - July 13, 2010
- Jim Salter, Associated Press Writer
- ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A former medical supply technician at the St. Louis VA Medical Center told a congressional hearing Tuesday that she warned more than a year ago that dental equipment sterilization was inadequate, but her pleas were ignored. Earlene Johnson spoke at a special hearing in St. Louis called by the House Co
- Obama looks to Bush's worldwide strategy on AIDS
- Associated Press - July 13, 2010
- Donna Bryson, Associated Press Writer
- JOHANNESBURG, (AP) - President Barack Obama is trying to bring home some of the much-lauded strategies his predecessor used to fight AIDS around the world. The national strategy for combatting HIV and AIDS the Obama administration released Tuesday credits the Bush-era international campaign against AIDS for setting cle
- UN: HIV among young people going down in Africa
- Associated Press - July 13, 2010
- Maria Cheng, AP Medical Writer
- LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) - The number of young people infected with HIV in Africa is falling in 16 of the 25 countries hardest hit by the virus, according to a new report by a U.N. agency. The number of young people infected with HIV dropped by at least 25 percent in a dozen countries, the U.N. AIDS report said. In
- New strategy for fighting HIV infections and AIDS
- Associated Press - July 12, 2010
- Julie Pace, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is announcing a new national strategy for combatting HIV and AIDS on Tuesday, aimed at stopping new infections and increasing access to care for people living with the virus. The strategy calls for reducing the rate of new HIV infections by 25 percent over the next five years, a
- VA secretary: St. Louis mistakes 'unacceptable'
- Associated Press - July 1, 2010
- Jim Salter, Associated Press Writer
- ST. LOUIS (AP) - The Veterans Administration said Thursday that the chief of dental services at a St. Louis VA Medical Center has been placed on administrative leave after the hospital urged nearly 2,000 veterans to return for blood tests because inadequately sterilized equipment may have exposed them to viral infectio
- VA: Faulty dental sterilization in St. Louis
- Associated Press - July 1, 2010
- Jim Salter, Associated Press Writer
- ST. LOUIS (AP) - Several members of Congress have demanded that a St. Louis VA Medical Center be investigated after it urged nearly 2,000 veterans to return for blood tests because inadequately sterilized equipment may have exposed them to viral infections during dental procedures. The Department of Veterans Affairs se
- SAfrica sees rise in post-circumcision deaths
- Associated Press - June 29, 2010
- Eric Naki, Associated Press Writer
- JOHANNESBURG, (AP) - South African health officials said Tuesday they are alarmed by the rise in deaths among men who have had botched traditional circumcisions, after 39 young men died in the last month after undergoing the rite of passage into manhood. Health officials estimate that as many as six young men have died
- In NY, Prince Harry plays polo for African charity
- Associated Press - June 28, 2010
- Verena Dobnik, Associated Press Writer
- NEW YORK, (AP) - Britain s Prince Harry took a tumble from his horse Sunday before his defeat in a New York polo match against the world s best known polo player, Argentina s Nacho Figueras. But it was all for a good cause -- to benefit 400,000 children of an AIDS-ravaged African nation. The 25-year-old son of the late
- Experts urge reform of global drug policy
- Associated Press - June 28, 2010
- Veronika Oleksyn, Asociated Press Writer
- VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Policies that criminalize drug users fuel the spread of AIDS and should be reformed, experts preparing for an international conference said Monday. Instead, governments, international organizations and the U.N. should promote policies that include opiate substitution therapy and needle and syring
- Lawsuit: Medical records of porn stars overexposed
- Associated Press - June 28, 2010
- Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Associated Press Writer
- Los Angeles, CA (AP) - Two former porn actresses are suing a Los Angeles clinic, alleging their private medical information is being wrongly exposed to the public. In a lawsuit filed Monday, Diana Lee Grandmason and Bess Garren say the release forms actors are required to sign at the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare F
- Ill. inmate died in agony while pleading for help
- Associated Press - June 27, 2010
- David Mercer, Associated Press Writer
- Pekin, Ill. (AP) - For days before he died in a federal prison, Adam Montoya pleaded with guards to be taken to a doctor, pressing a panic button in his cell over and over to summon help that never came. An autopsy concluded that the 36-year-old inmate suffered from no fewer than three serious illnesses -- cancer, hepa
- IL encourages testing for HIV
- Associated Press - June 26, 2010
- CHICAGO - Illinois officials want people to get tested for HIV. The Illinois Department of Public Health is sponsoring a number of events across the state this month so people can get tested for the virus that causes AIDS. Sunday is National HIV Testing Day. Officials say Illinois has had more than 41,000 reported case
- Kylie Minogue sells halter dress for AIDS charity
- Associated Press - June 26, 2010
- Jenny Barchfield, Associated Press Writer
- PARIS, France (AP) - Kylie Minogue proved that in the name of charity, she s capable of selling the shirt off her back. The petite Australian pop star auctioned off her black halter dress at a swanky AIDS benefit Friday night on the margins of Paris menswear week. The Jean Paul Gaultier number, which bristled with litt
- Soccer is a life saver for HIV Positive Ladies
- Associated Press - June 26, 2010
- Angus Shaw, Associated Press Writer
- DOMBORAMWARI, Zimbabwe (AP) - For members of the Positive Ladies Football Club, playing soccer is much more than just a way to have fun. All its members are women infected with the HIV/AIDS virus. In this impoverished district outside the Zimbabwe capital, having an outlet and a bond with teammates has helped the playe
- Sexual Assaults Add to Miseries of Haiti's Ruins
- Associated Press - June 23, 2010
- Deborah Sontag
- PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The 22-year-old woman, wearing a gauzy blue dress that she had changed into after her release, spoke in a whispery voice. Perhaps the worst part of the whole ordeal, she said, was the place where her kidnappers had chosen to imprison her. That they abducted her was terrifying. That they raped h
- Cook County gives free HIV tests to mark national testing day; many unaware they are positive
- Associated Press - June 23, 2010
- CHICAGO (AP) -- Cook County health facilities are offering free HIV tests. They coincide with a national effort to encourage people to learn if they have the virus that causes AIDS. Upcoming tests are available Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Oak Forest Hospital in Oak Forest; Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m
- Swaziland study shows death rate has doubled in African kingdom with world's highest HIV rate
- Associated Press - June 23, 2010
- Phathizwe-Chief Zulu, Associated Press Writer
- MBABANE, Swaziland (AP) -- Swaziland s death rate more than doubled in a decade, proof of the toll of AIDS, statisticians in this southern African kingdom said Wednesday. Nombulelo Dlamini of the Central Statistical Office discussed a new study comparing censuses in 1997 and 2007 in an interview on Wednesday. The study
- Obama embracing incremental changes for gays, finds tepid response from activists
- Associated Press - June 22, 2010
- Philip Elliott, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is chipping away at his long list of promises to gay voters but has yet to win the enthusiastic backing of the reliably Democratic voting bloc. The Obama White House has accomplished more than any other on gay rights, yet has drawn sharp criticism from some of those who stand t
- Remade in NY: French ex-1st lady has new life
- Associated Press - June 22, 2010
- Verena Dobnik, Associated Press Writer
- NEW YORK, (AP) - As first lady of France , Cecilia Sarkozy sat in a desert tent with Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, winning the release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death on charges of injecting children with HIV. Three years later, she s a New Yorker -- leading a conference on women
- Feds Investigating Porn Industry Health Clinic
- Associated Press - June 18, 2010
- Los Angeles - A federal agency is investigating whether an HIV testing clinic funded by the adult film industry routinely releases health information about actors to porn producers, violating the actors privacy, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation announced Friday. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services investigat
- SAfrica protesters march for US AIDS funding
- Associated Press - June 17, 2010
- Eric Naki, Associated Press Writer
- JOHANNESBURG, (AP) - Thousands of South African protesters marched on the U.S. consulate Thursday to demand the U.S. increase its AIDS funding for Africa, weeks after U.S. officials said their biggest AIDS fund would not substantially rise. The protesters, clad in green T-shirts emblazoned with the words HIV-Positive,
- Kidneys transplanted between HIV-infected patients
- Associated Press - June 16, 2010
- Mike Stobbe, AP Medical Writer
- ATLANTA, (AP) - South African surgeons have transplanted kidneys between donors and patients who were both infected with the AIDS virus -- a medical first that has some U.S. doctors buzzing about whether it could be tried here. The first four of the transplants, which occurred in 2008, are described in Thursday s New E
- Minister: SAfrica must use sport for social issues
- Associated Press - June 12, 2010
- Stuart Condie, AP Sports Writer
- JOHANNESBURG - South Africa s health minister says the country must continue to use sports to highlight social issues long after the World Cup. Many commentators have expressed concern that the legacy of the World Cup will be limited to stadiums and roads, but Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi said the biggest benefit will be a cha
- Milwaukee Art Museum hosts AIDS quilt
- Associated Press - June 10, 2010
- MILWAUKEE - A quilt in memory of people who have died from AIDS or related illness is on exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum. The nine panels of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt show the contributions of fashion designers Dolce & Gabbana, Versace, Ralph Lauren and Isaac Mizrahi and others. There are more than
- Swiss acupuncturist probed over HIV infections
- Associated Press - June 10, 2010
- Frank Jordans, Associated Press Writer
- GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) - Authorities in Switzerland are investigating whether an acupuncturist intentionally infected at least 15 people with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, an official said Thursday. The case shocked Switzerland when it came to light earlier this week, after Swiss tabloid Blick reported that author
- Experts ask Bristol-Myers not to shut factory making AIDS drugs, thousands of kids could die
- Associated Press - June 7, 2010
- LONDON (AP) - Officials urged Bristol-Myers Squibb not to shut down a plant in France which makes AIDS drugs, saying the move will jeopardize the lives of thousands of babies. In a letter published in the journal Lancet on Monday, officials at UNITAID, which buys drugs for AIDS, Oxfam and others said they were deeply c
- AIDS groups protest ban on HIV information centers at FIFA controlled soccer venues
- Associated Press - June 5, 2010
- JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- AIDS awareness groups said Saturday they are protesting a ban by the world soccer body FIFA on distributing health related information and condoms at World Cup stadiums and fan events in South Africa. An alliance of 10 leading South African HIV/AIDS organizations said FIFA has not per
- Annie Lennox named UNAIDS goodwill ambassador
- June 2, 2010
- GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) - Scottish rock singer Annie Lennox has become a spokeswoman for the U.N. agency fighting HIV/AIDS. Here appointment as UNAIDS goodwill ambassador Wednesday, and she pledged to address the daily brutality faced by millions of women and girls suffering from the disease.
- 3 Namibian women with HIV say they were sterilized
- Associated Press - June 2, 2010
- Patience Nyangove, Associated Press Writer
- WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) - Supporters of three HIV-positive women in Namibia who say they were sterilized without their consent held protests to support the women s decision to sue the government, a legal aid group said Wednesday. The Legal Assistance Center said protesters began staging sit-ins at two state hospitals in
- Donor Cuts Hurt AIDS Fight in Africa
- Associated Press - May 27, 2010
- JOHANNESBURG - International donors are cutting back on AIDS support, hurting the fight against the epidemic across Africa, an international medical aid group said Thursday. Doctors are turning away patients in South Africa . Kenyans fear clinics will run out of money. Health-policy makers in
- Attorney General sues Monterey AIDS Project
- Associated Press - May 25, 2010
- Salinas, Calif. (AP) - Attorney General Jerry Brown is suing to shut down the Monterey County AIDS Project and recover $2.8 million he says was used for illegal purposes. Brown is accusing the directors of the charity of using money intending to house people with AIDS for a variety of other uses, including salaries, re
- Deadly, ultra-pure heroin arrives in US
- Associated Press - May 24, 2010
- Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press Writers
- Winfield, Mo. (AP) -- Mexican drug smugglers are increasingly peddling a form of ultra-potent heroin that sells for as little as $10 a bag and is so pure it can kill unsuspecting users instantly, sometimes before they even remove the syringe from their veins. An Associated Press review of drug overdose data shows that
- Zimbabwe police raid gay group offices, arrest 2
- Associated Press - May 24, 2010
- Chengetai Zvauya, Associated Press Writer
- HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Police have arrested two members of a gay organization after they posted a letter in their office from former San Francisco Mayor Willie Lewis Brown criticizing the Zimbabwean president s opposition to homosexuality, their lawyer said Monday. Ellen Chadehama, 34, and Ingatius Mhambi, 38, are emp
- Cycling to raise awareness on rising HIV rates
- Associated Press - May 24, 2010
- Sam Whiting
- On June 6, Jason Villalobos, 30, of San Francisco will debark on the 545-mile AIDS LifeCycle to Los Angeles. It will be the third consecutive AIDS ride for Villalobos, who has been HIV-positive for five years. Why: There has been an explosion of HIV among young gay men, and people are getting complacent. I m riding to
- J-Lo, Lagerfeld and Crowe help raise $6.7 million for AIDS research at Riviera gala
- Associated Press - May 21, 2010
- Jenny Barchfield, Associated Press Writer
- CAP D ANTIBES, France (AP) -- Superstar Jennifer Lopez tempted. Uber-designer Karl Lagerfeld exhorted. Comic Chris Tucker mouthed off, and heavyweight producer Harvey Weinstein cajoled -- all in the name of charity. As hosts at a swanky charity event held on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival, the A-listers mis
- Gay Malawi Couple Sentenced to 14 Years
- Associated Press - May 20, 2010
- BLANTYRE, Malawi - A judge sentenced a couple to the maximum 14 years in prison for unnatural acts and gross indecency Thursday under Malawi s anti-gay legislation. The harsh sentence had been expected in this conservative southern African country after the same judge convicted Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza ea
- SC health care cuts for AIDS, prescription drugs, smoking would cover court, police shortfall
- Associated Press - May 19, 2010
- Jim Davenport, Associated Press Writer
- COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina would cut spending for cancer screening, AIDS treatment and prevention and prescription drugs to cover a shortfall in state court and police funding under a proposal House members were reviewing Wednesday. A health care advocate said the proposal House Ways and Means Committee Chai
- Obama administration removes St. Louis professor from oil spill effort over website writings
- Associated Press - May 19, 2010
- Jim Salter, Associated Press Writer
- ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A St. Louis scientist who was among a select group picked by the Obama administration to pursue a solution to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been removed from the group because of writings on his website, the U.S. Energy Department confirmed Wednesday. Washington University physics professor
- LA jury convicts man in prescription drug scheme
- Associated Press - May 19, 2010
- Los Angeles, CA (AP) - A federal jury has convicted a Los Angeles man who paid $300 to destitute HIV patients to get expensive drugs through Medicare and Medi-Cal, then sold the addictive OxyContin and Dilaudid pills on the black market for thousands of dollars. Federal drug agents arrested 53-year-old Nathaniel Newhou
- UN efforts to fight TB have flopped
- Associated Press - May 18, 2010
- Maria Cheng, AP Medical Writer
- GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) - Global efforts to control tuberculosis have failed and radical new approaches are needed, experts said Wednesday. With more than 9 million people infected last year, including 2 million deaths, officials say there is more tuberculosis now than at any other time in history. In a special tuberc
- Zhang Ziyi stars as AIDS patient in new China film
- Associated Press - May 18, 2010
- China (AP) - Actress Zhang Ziyi says she signed on to play an AIDS patient in her new movie because she s a big fan of the director, a frequent collaborator with well-known Chinese directors Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou. We actually met many years ago, but always missed the chance to work together, Zhang said Tuesday
- Gay couple convicted in Malawi faces 14-year term
- Associated Press - May 18, 2010
- Raphael Tenthani, Associated Press Writer
- BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) - A judge convicted a gay couple Tuesday of charges that could send them to jail for more than a decade following an engagement celebration, a ruling activists fear could send others into hiding and hamper the fight against AIDS. Malawi s government has been defiant in the face of international cr
- HEALTHBEAT: Testing AIDS drugs in vaginal gels, films is latest move to protect women from HIV
- Associated Press - May 17, 2010
- Lauran Neergaard, AP Medical Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) -- Try after try to make vaginal creams that could repel the AIDS virus have failed. Now researchers are testing if a drug used to treat HIV infection finally might give women a tool to prevent it -- by infusing the medicine into vaginal gels and contraceptive-style rings. Even quick-dissolving anti-HIV
- New Mexico medical officials concerned after mistakes made during glucose testing
- Associated Press - May 13, 2010
- Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press Writer
- ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A group of New Mexico medical school students failed to properly change needles on devices used for blood glucose testing, and now officials say a few dozen people might be at risk for contracting serious diseases. University of New Mexico School of Medicine officials made the announcement Thursday
- Fugitive accused in Medicare scams caught in Miami
- Associated Press - May 11, 2010
- A fugitive accused of bilking millions from Medicare through bogus HIV clinics has been captured in Miami after more than a year on the run. Authorities say Jose Garcia, who appeared in Miami federal court Tuesday, recruited doctors to take part in an elaborate HIV infusion drug scam that charged Medicare $11 million i
- Caribbean nations expect to receive $100 million grant from US government to fight AIDS
- Associated Press - May 11, 2010
- GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) -- Leaders in the Caribbean expect to receive a $100 million grant from the U.S. government to help fight AIDS over the next five years. Acting U.S. Ambassador in Guyana Karen Williams says the agreement will provide funds to treat people in a dozen countries, including
- Chinese AIDS activist flees to US after harassment
- Associated Press - May 10, 2010
- Gillian Wong, Associated Press Writer
- BEIJING, China (AP) - Wan Yanhai is used to harassment by authorities, but the unwanted attention got steadily worse this year for the founder of a prominent Chinese AIDS advocacy group. Authorities ordered the group s anniversary celebration canceled, sent commercial regulators and tax inspectors to visit its offices,
- South Africa, changing track on AIDS, faces lack of resources and stigmas
- Associated Press - May 8, 2010
- Nastasya Tay
- NDULINDE, South Africa (AP) - South Africa s renewed commitment to combat AIDS has drawn praise, but in the worst-hit province in the worst-hit country in the world, life - and death - hasn t changed much because of stigma and a lack of resources. After years of official denial and delay, South Africa s government last
- NY man who infected 13 women with HIV gets trial in state's bid to lock him up indefinitely
- Associated Press - Thursday, May 6, 2010
- Carolyn Thompson, Associated Press Writer
- Buffalo, N.Y. (AP) - A former drug dealer who infected at least 13 women with the AIDS virus should stand trial on New York state s efforts to have him committed indefinitely as a dangerous sex offender, a judge ruled Thursday. Nushawn Williams, 33, completed a 12-year prison sentence last month after pleading guilty i
- 1 Chinese baby born with syphilis every hour
- Associated Press - May 5, 2010
- Margie Mason, AP Medical Writer
- Every hour a baby is born in China with syphilis, as the world s fastest-growing epidemic of the disease is fueled by men with new money from the nation s booming economy, researchers say. The easy-to-cure bacterial infection, which was nearly wiped out in China five decades ago, is now the most commonly reported sexua
- Elton John calls Ryan White lifelong inspiration, 20 years after the Ind. teen died of AIDS
- Associated Press - April 28, 2010
- Carly Everson, Associated Press Writer
- INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Elton John says he s been sober for 20 years, since shortly after the death of an Indiana teen with AIDS who the musician credits with inspiring him to turn his life around. John was in Indianapolis on Wednesday to headline a benefit celebrating the life and legacy of Ryan White. The 18-year-old di
- Aids groups say Zambia prisoners suffer gross rights violations, and call on gov't to improve
- Associated Press - April 28, 2010
- Lewis Mwanangombe, Associated Press Writer
- LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) -- Prisons in Zambia are so overcrowded that inmates are sometimes forced to sleep seated or in shifts, and children behind bars are vulnerable to rape by adult prisoners, aids organizations said. A report released by the Prisons Care and Counseling Association (PRISCCA), AIDS and Rights Alliance fo
- Mother fights confinement of NY man who spread HIV
- Associated Press - Wednesday, April 28, 2010
- Buffalo, N.Y. (AP) - Relatives of a New York man who recently completed a 12-year prison sentence for knowingly infecting at least 13 women with the AIDS virus say there s no reason the state should keep him locked up any longer. The wife and mother of Nushawn Williams spoke outside a Buffalo courtroom Wednesday after
- NY wants man who spread HIV locked up indefinitely
- Associated Press - Wednesday, April 28, 2010
- Carolyn Thompson, Associated Press Writer
- Buffalo, N.Y. (AP) -- A sex offender who infected at least 13 women with the AIDS virus should be locked up indefinitely under a civil law meant to keep the most dangerous offenders out of communities even after they complete prison sentences, the state said Wednesday. The attorney general s office described 33-year-ol
- Gov discusses Confederacy, felons' rights, condoms
- Associated Press - April 27, 2010
- Bob Lewis, AP Political Writer
- RICHMOND, Va. - After a month of public relations disasters, Gov. Bob McDonnell faced live radio questions about the Confederacy, felons rights and classroom instruction on condom use. But the rookie Republican governor also used his sometimes contentious monthly appearance Tuesday on Washington s WTOP radio to strike
- Officials look to Iran for help on AIDS
- Associated Press - April 27, 2010
- LIVERPOOL, England (AP) -- Health experts are holding up a perhaps unlikely country as a model for fighting AIDS in drug users: Iran . Experts at an international AIDS conference this week are studying how the hardline Islamic republic s methadone clinics and needle exchange programs may be a model for other countries,
- Europe Trade Deal Could Hit Indian Generic Drugs
- Associated Press - April 26, 2010
- MUMBAI, India (AP) -- It took two years of secret suffering and gut-wrenching diarrhea to make Lumkile Sizila face the fact that he had HIV. Fortunately, there was something Sizila, who lives in Cape Town, could do about it. South Africa , home to 5.7 million HIV-positive people -- more than any other country in the wo
- South African President Says He Is HIV-Negative
- Associated Press - April 25, 2010
- JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- South Africa s president says his most recent HIV test result was negative. President Jacob Zuma made the announcement Sunday as he launched a campaign to combat AIDS through counseling and testing in the country hardest hit by the epidemic. The South African Press agency says Zuma said April s blo
- AIDS Vaccine Researcher Hopeful
- Associated Press - April 23, 2010
- JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- A leader in the search for a vaccine against HIV, which causes AIDS, said Friday that recent advances have given scientists new reason for hope. In an interview with The Associated Press, Dr. Alan Bernstein, executive director of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise, cited the world s first successful
- 9 Calif porn agencies targeted in labor complaints
- Associated Press - April 15, 2010
- Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Associated Press Writer
- Los Angeles, CA (AP) - An AIDS advocacy group is bringing labor complaints against nine porn talent agencies for advertising actors who are willing to have unprotected sex on camera. AIDS Healthcare Foundation President Michael Weinstein says the Los Angeles-area agencies are knowingly exposing the porn actors to sexua
- Trimeris says 1Q HIV drug sales fell 12 percent
- Associated Press - April 14, 2010
- Durham, N.C. (AP) - Trimeris Inc. said Wednesday that sales of its HIV drug Fuzeon fell 12 percent in the first quarter due to weaker demand in the U.S. and Canada . Trimeris said Fuzeon sales dropped to $24.4 million from $27.8 million a year earlier. In the U.S. and Canada, revenue dropped 28 percent, to $7.2 million
- Confinement Sought for NY Man Who Spread HIV
- Associated Press - April 13, 2010
- ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- A New York man who was convicted of knowingly infecting at least 13 women with the AIDS virus has completed his prison sentence, but he may face civil confinement as a sex offender. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo wants Nushawn Williams held under a law that allows for keeping the most dangerous sex
- Gilead Starts Late Stage Tests of 4-In-1-HIV Drug
- Associated Press - April 12, 2010
- FOSTER CITY, Calif. (AP) -- Gilead Sciences Inc. said Monday it started late stage clinical testing of its four-in-one Quad HIV tablet. Gilead said it has dosed the first patient in a clinical trial. It is planned to run two studies. One will compare the Quad drug to its three-in-one HIV drug Atripla, and the other wil
- Medical parole rejected for jailed China dissident
- Associated Press - April 11, 2010
- Cara Anna, Associated Press Writer
- BEIJING, China (AP) - Chinese authorities have rejected a request for medical parole for a dissident who has championed AIDS victims and was imprisoned for sedition after being accused of plotting to disturb the Olympic Games, his wife said Monday. Zeng Jinyan appealed last week to Beijing prison authorities, saying a
- Even after death, abuse against gays continues
- Associated Press - April 11, 2010
- Rukmini Callimachi, Associated Press Writer
- Senegal (AP) - Even death cannot stop the violence against gays in this corner of the world any more. Madieye Diallo s body had only been in the ground for a few hours when the mob descended on the weedy cemetery with shovels. They yanked out the corpse, spit on its torso, dragged it away and dumped it in front of th
- Study: Health Aid Made Some Countries Cut Budgets
- Associated Press - April 9, 2010
- LONDON (AP) -- After getting millions of dollars to fight AIDS, some African countries responded by slashing their health budgets, new research says. For years, the international community has forked over billions in health aid, believing the donations supplemented health budgets in poor countries. It now turns out dev
- Illinois AIDS testing locator now available in Spanish language
- Associated Press - March 27, 2010
- SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- A text message in Spanish can now help find the location of the nearest testing center for HIV and AIDS. The Illinois Department of Public Health is expanding its Text 2 Survive tool to the Spanish language. On a mobile phone, anyone can send a text with the message centro and their five-digit
- Authoritarian govt in Uzbekistan restricts doctors' ability to leave the country
- Associated Press - March 26, 2010
- Peter Leonard, Associated Press Writer
- ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) -- Authorities in Uzbekistan have restricted the country s doctors from freely traveling abroad to international medical conferences, a think tank in the Central Asian nation said Friday. Limiting Uzbek doctors exposure to foreign expertise is likely to further hinder the authoritarian ex-Sovie
- Elton John to commemorate life of Ind. AIDS victim
- Associated Press - March 25, 2010
- Indianapolis (AP) -- Singer Elton John will headline a celebration of the life of Indiana AIDS victim Ryan White in an event benefiting the Indianapolis Children s Museum and the singer s AIDS foundation. Museum officials announced Thursday that John will perform during the April 28 benefit at Butler University. Whit
- Retired doctors to help test for HIV in SAfrica
- Associated Press - March 25, 2010
- JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa s health minister is asking retired health workers to help implement the world s largest voluntary HIV counseling and testing campaign in South Africa. Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi said Thursday the campaign aims to test 15 million people across the country. Motsoaledi has asked 9,000 retired South
- Workers to Give Out 2.5 Billion Condoms in SAfrica
- Associated Press - March 25, 2010
- JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Thousands of health workers will help hand out 2.5 billion condoms and test 15 million people for HIV as part of the world s largest campaign in the country hardest hit by the virus, the health minister said Thursday. After years of official denial and delay, South Africa s government last year emb
- Global Fund Seeks $20 Billion to Fight AIDS, TB
- Associated Press - March 24, 2010
- THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- A global group funding the battle against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in impoverished countries urged wealthy nations on Wednesday to keep paying for the fight even as the economic crisis forces budget cuts. Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Geneva-based Global Fund, said h
- HIV, TB Cut Lesotho Life Expectancy
- Associated Press - March 24, 2010
- MORIJA, Lesotho (AP) -- Medical workers are increasingly concerned that the lethal combination of HIV infection and tuberculosis may become the world s next major health crisis. To mark World TB Day on Wednesday, Medecins Sans Frontieres drew attention to Lesotho, which has the world s third-highest prevalence of HIV,
- Religious Groups Discuss Ending AIDS Stigma
- Associated Press - March 23, 2010
- THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Religious groups from around the globe discussed Tuesday how to help the global fight against AIDS by preventing victims becoming outcasts from society. Canon Gideon Byamugisha, an Anglican priest from Uganda , said the way his church treated him after he discovered he had HIV should se
- Film: 147 toddlers infected in Uzbek HIV outbreak
- Associated Press - March 22, 2010
- MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- A respected online publication claims that an AIDS outbreak at two children s hospitals in the Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan has killed at least 14 children and left 133 infected with HIV. Daniil Kislov, the editor of Ferghana.ru, said the 2007 outbreak of the virus that causes AIDS was firs
- WHO: Not sure if drug-resistant TB is worsening
- Associated Press - March 18, 2010
- Maria Cheng, AP Medical Writer
- LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) -- The World Health Organization says it doesn t have enough information to know if it is winning the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis. In a new report on the global status of drug-resistant TB based on data from 2008, the agency says almost half of all people with the disease are i
- Calif. board to study requiring condoms in porn
- Associated Press - March 18, 2010
- Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Associated Press Writer
- LOS ANGELES (AP) -- California s worker safety board voted Thursday to further study a proposal that would require porn actors to wear condoms during sex scenes. The six-member California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board voted unanimously to assign an advisory committee to study the proposal from the AIDS
- Safety Board To Probe Condom Requirement For Porn Stars
- Associated Press - March 18, 2010
- Shaya Tayefe Mohajer
- LOS ANGELES - California s worker safety board voted Thursday to further study a proposal that would require porn actors to wear condoms during sex scenes. The six-member California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board voted unanimously to assign an advisory committee to study the proposal from the AIDS Healt
- Report questions excluding gays from some studies
- Associated Press - March 17, 2010
- Marilynn Marchione, AP Medical Writer
- A small but significant portion of medical studies exclude gays from participating, sometimes without an apparent scientific reason, several cancer researchers say. In a letter in Thursday s New England Journal of Medicine, three scientists from the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia cite several dozen studies req
- C. Everett Koop honored in NH for work on HIV/AIDS awareness, prevention
- Associated Press - March 17, 2010
- HANOVER, N.H. (AP) -- Former Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop is being honored in New Hampshire for his work on HIV and AIDS awareness and prevention. Koop on Wednesday will receive the 2010 Ryan White Distinguished Leadership Award from Indiana University s Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention. It will be presented
- Women, girls rape victims in Haiti quake aftermath
- Associated Press - March 16, 2010
- Michelle Faul, Associated Press Writer
- PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- When the young woman needed to use the toilet, she went out into the darkened tent camp and was attacked by three men. They grabbed me, put their hands over my mouth and then the three of them took turns, the slender 21-year-old said, wriggling with discomfort as she nursed her baby girl,
- New HIV Infections Increasing Among Homosexuals
- Associated Press - March 16, 2010
- NEW YORK (AP) -- New HIV infections are increasing among homosexuals, drug users and prostitutes who don t seek help because of laws that criminalize these practices, the head of the U.N. AIDS agency said Monday. Michel Sidibe, the head of UNAIDS , said it is unacceptable that 85 countries still have laws criminalizing
- NGOs in China Say Threatened by New Donor Rules
- Associated Press - March 12, 2010
- BEIJING (AP) -- Aid groups in China said Friday they feel threatened by new rules that make it harder to take overseas donations, warning that losing the money could put many out of business as the government steps into the issue for the first time. China is behind most countries in embracing outside aid groups. Its le
- Obama Gives Away $1.4M Nobel Prize
- Associated Press - March 11, 2010
- WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama plans to donate the $1.4 million from his Nobel Peace Prize to helping students, veterans families and survivors of Haiti s earthquake, among others, drawing attention to organizations he said do extraordinary work. Obama is giving a total of $750,000 to six groups that help kid
- Vatican, Italian bishops slam Rome school's move to install condom-vending machines
- Associated Press - March 11, 2010
- Alessandra Rizzo, Associated Press Writer
- ROME (AP) - A Rome high school has decided to install vending machines selling condoms for its students, sparking angry reaction from the Catholic Church which claims the move will only encourage youths to have sex. Cardinal Agostino Vallini, the pope s vicar for Rome, criticized the decision as trivializing sex. L
- Red Cross: Zimbabwe at brink of food crisis after erratic rains, seed, fertilizer shortages
- Associated Press - March 11, 2010
- Angus Shaw, Associated Press Writer
- HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - An estimated 2.17 million Zimbabweans - perhaps a fourth of the country s population - are in need of food aid, the Red Cross said Thursday. In a statement, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies pleaded for international funds for urgent food aid to Zimbabwe. U.N.
- San Francisco LGBT Center asking city for $1M
- Associated Press - March 10, 2010
- San Francisco, CA (AP) -- San Francisco s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center is asking the city for some big financial help to stay afloat. Since opening in 2002, the $12.3 million, city-subsidized center has struggled to pay its mortgage and is now on the verge of foreclosure. Officials are now as
- Bill Clinton, Bill Gates say US investments in global health also yield foreign policy return
- Associated Press - March 10, 2010
- Ann Sanner, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) - Bill Clinton and Bill Gates said Wednesday that U.S. investments in fighting AIDS, malaria and other diseases in underdeveloped nations save lives and play a vital role in improving America s image abroad. Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, former President Clinton said helping
- Philippine health chief takes on powerful Catholic church to hand out condoms to fight AIDS
- Associated Press - March 8, 2010
- Teresa Cerojano, Associated Press Writer
- MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- On Valentine s Day, Philippine government health workers hit the streets of Manila to hand out roses and condoms to passers-by. The message was clear in a country with a relatively small but rapidly growing HIV-positive population: Avoid unprotected sex. It didn t get far. Within days, l
- UN says mother-child HIV can be eliminated by 2015
- Associated Press - March 8, 2010
- GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) -- The United Nations says mother-to-child HIV transmission can be eliminated by 2015 if health programs receive increased investments as planned. Michel Sidibe, the head of UNAIDS , appealed to government and private donors to keep investing in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and m
- Research finds that HIV can hide in bone marrow
- Associated Press - March 8, 2010
- Randolph E. Schmid
- Washington -- The virus that causes AIDS can hide in the bone marrow, avoiding drugs and later awakening to cause illness, according to new research that could point the way toward better treatments for the disease. Finding that hideout is a first step, but years of research lie ahead. Dr. Kathleen Collins of the Unive
- UNAIDS: Funding cuts could lead to HIV 'nightmare'
- Associated Press - March 8, 2010
- Nastasya Tay, Associated Press Writer
- JOHANNESBURG, (AP) -- Cuts in donor funding could cause an HIV nightmare, the United Nations AIDS agency chief warned Monday. Michel Sidibe appealed to government and private donors to keep investing in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, an international financing institution. He said that cuts in
- UN asks flyers to click $2 for MassiveGood health effort in developing nations
- Associated Press - March 4, 2010
- John Heilprin
- UNITED NATIONS (AP) - With a simple click, U.S. travelers buying airline tickets via some travel agencies and Internet sites can now donate $2 or more to fight AIDS in developing countries. The United Nations and former President Bill Clinton launched the donation effort Thursday called MassiveGood. It aims to supply l
- Senators: Lift ban on gays donating blood
- Associated Press - March 4, 2010
- Jim Abrams, Associated Press
- WASHINGTON -- The time has come to change a policy that imposes a lifetime ban on donating blood for any man who has had gay sex since 1977, 18 senators said Thursday. Not a single piece of scientific evidence supports the ban, said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who joined 16 other Democrats and independent Sen. Bernie San
- FDA says HIV drugs from Roche and Abbott can be dangerous when used together
- Associated Press - February 23, 2010
- Matthew Perrone, AP Business Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning Tuesday about potential heart risks when combining two HIV drugs. The agency said preliminary data suggest Roche s Invirase and Abbott Laboratories Norvir can affect the electrical activity of the heart when used together.
- Police: Ind. Man Failed To Tell Partners Of HIV - Suspect Met Women On Internet Dating Site
- Associated Press - February 22, 2010
- INDIANAPOLIS -- Police said a suburban Indianapolis man may have had unprotected sex with dozens of women without disclosing that he has the AIDS virus. Prosecutors said Tony M. Perkins, of Greenwood, faces felony charges for failing to warn two sexual partners that he is HIV positive. A probable cause affidavit said P
- SoCal doctor gets prison for diluting AIDS meds
- Associated Press - February 22, 2010
- Santa Ana, Calif. (AP) -- A Riverside County doctor who admitted giving 21 AIDS, HIV or hepatitis patients diluted doses of medication has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison. Prosecutors say 59-year-old Dr. George Kooshian of La Quinta was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana on Monday. Kooshian ple
- Appeals court clears way for pilot to claim emotional distress over improper HIV disclosure
- Associated Press - February 22, 2010
- Paul Elias, Associated Press Writer
- SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A pilot who lost his license because he failed to disclose he was HIV-positive can sue the federal government for emotional distress for mishandling his medical records, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the Social Security Administration improperly
- Early, aggressive therapy eyed in blocking AIDS
- Associated Press - February 21, 2010
- Randolph E. Schmid, AP Science Writer
- SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Aggressive, early anti-viral therapy might provide a way to derail the spread of AIDS, a battle where a successful vaccine remains elusive. Called test-and-treat, the goal is to catch new AIDS cases early and administer therapy to reduce the amount of virus in patients systems in an effort to prevent
- California research studies show pot can ease muscle spasms, pain from injuries
- Associated Press - February 17, 2010
- Lisa Leff, Associated Press Writer
- SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- The first U.S. clinical trials in more than two decades on the medical benefits of marijuana confirm pot is effective in reducing muscle spasms associated with multiple sclerosis and pain caused by certain neurological injuries or illnesses, according to a report issued Wednesday. Igor Grant,
- Iowa Senate OKs ultimate fighting rules
- Associated Press - February 16, 2010
- Des Moines, Iowa - The Senate has unanimously approved a measure increasing regulations on mixed martial arts contests, known as ultimate fighting. Under the measure approved Tuesday, promoters of ultimate fighting events would have to have a physician present, and participants would be forced to undergo a physical exa
- Put a ring on it? Experts explore new ways to circumcise men in Africa to fight AIDS epidemic
- Associated Press - February 15, 2010
- Maria Cheng, AP Medical Writer
- LONDON (AP) -- The most powerful force against AIDS in Africa may be circumcision, a procedure that s easily done in the developed world. But it s a challenge on a continent where there are too few medical workers and a reluctance by men for cultural reasons and fear of pain. Now there may be a new weapon in the arsena
- Lada Gaga, Streep, other stars brave snow to honor Natasha Richardson at amfAR gala in NYC
- Associated Press - February 11, 2010
- Nicole Evatt, Associated Press Writer
- NEW YORK ( AP) -- A New York City snowstorm can t deter Hollywood s brightest stars from supporting Natasha Richardson s favorite charity. Lady Gaga, Meryl Streep and Sigourney Weaver attended Wednesday s amfAR gala to raise money to fight HIV/AIDS and honor Richardson, who died in a skiing accident last March. Richar
- South African Catholics say President Zuma has set back AIDS fight
- Associated Press - February 11, 2010
- JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Catholic leaders accuse South Africa s president of damaging the fight against AIDS by having sex outside his polygamous marriage. In a statement released before President Jacob Zuma was to deliver his state of the nation address Thursday, the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference said that
- S.African president expresses regret over affair
- Associated Press - February 7, 2010
- Donna Bryson, Associated Press Writer
- JOHANNESBURG, (AP) -- South Africa s polygamist president has apologized to the nation after being criticized for having an extramarital affair that resulted in a daughter born in October. Analysts had argued that the love child revelations would have little impact because South African voters overwhelmingly supported
- President's love child hits a nerve in SAfrica
- Associated Press - February 5, 2010
- Krista Larson, Associated Press Writer
- Confirmation that President Jacob Zuma, who has three wives and a fiancee, has fathered a child with yet another woman has prompted jokes in South Africa s media but has also hit a nerve in a country hardest hit by the virus that causes AIDS. For a president whose political career survived a rape trial, Zuma is expecte
- US puts locals in charge of AIDS spending
- Associated Press - February 4, 2010
- Donna Bryson, Associated Press Writer
- U.S. and South African AIDS workers say putting more of the decision-making in local hands can help stretch donor money, amid concerns international giving will be limited because of the global recession. Since 2004, the U.S. government has funded a project for AIDS patients in rural South Africa through Catholic Relie
- South African president acknowledges love child
- Associated Press - February 3, 2010
- Donna Bryson, Associated Press Writer
- JOHANNESBURG, (AP) -- South Africa s polygamist president confirmed Wednesday that he fathered a daughter last year with a woman who is not one of his three wives or fiancee, and criticized those who said his actions undermined the country s campaign against AIDS. President Jacob Zuma s statement is his first comment o
- Achillion rises on hepatitis/HIV drug pact
- Associated Press - February 2, 2010
- NEW YORK, (AP) -- Shares of Achillion Pharmaceuticals Inc. advanced Tuesday after the company said it entered a partnership to develop and sell its hepatitis B and HIV drug candidate elvucitabine in China and other territories. Late Monday, Achillion announced a marketing partnership with GCA Therapeutics. Terms were n
- FDA liver risk warning for Bristol-Myers HIV drug
- Associated Press - February 1, 2010
- WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Federal health officials said Monday that patients taking a Bristol-Myers Squibb drug for HIV are at risk of a rare, but potentially fatal, liver disorder. The Food and Drug Administration said it has received 42 reports of the disorder since Videx was appro
- President's sex life makes headlines in S.Africa
- Associated Press - February 1, 2010
- Donna Bryson, Associated Press Writer
- JOHANNESBURG, (AP) -- South Africa s governing party says a report that the country s polygamist president fathered a child out of wedlock makes a mountain out of nothing. The report, however, has sparked some criticism in a country where one-tenth of the population is living with the virus that causes AIDS. Johannesbu
- Louganis, history's greatest diver, turns 50
- Associated Press - February 1, 2010
- Cheryl Wittenauer, Associated Press Writer
- ST. LOUIS, (AP) -- Greg Louganis has always had chutzpah. When he was a toddler, the boy who would become history s greatest diver sneaked into his sister s dance class and outshined the older kids. By 3, he was singing and dancing on stage, and at 8, was doing gymnastic stunts off the diving board at home. By 9, he wa
- Canada's Olympics city has notorious skid row
- Associated Press - January 30, 2010
- Jeremy Hainsworth, Associated Press Writer
- VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada (AP) -- Five blocks away from the venue for Vancouver s Winter Olympics opening ceremonies, four grizzled addicts huddle in the rain, injecting themselves with heroin behind a trash bin. This is the Downtown Eastside, where life is volatile and the slightest misstep can invite brutal
- IU-Kenya Partnership gets $5 million USAID grant
- Associated Press - January 28, 2010
- Indianapolis - A partnership between Indiana University School of Medicine and a medical school and hospital in Kenya has received an additional $5 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to expand health care services in the African nation. The IU Medical School partnered with the Moi (moy) Un
- In 2nd annual letter, Bill Gates looks back at his first year full-time at foundation
- Associated Press - January 25, 2010
- Donna Gordon Blankinship, Associated Press Writer
- SEATTLE (AP) -- The needs of the poor are greater than the money available to help them, but that s not enough to discourage Bill Gates in his work as co-chair of the world s largest charitable foundation. In his second annual letter, issued Monday, Gates says investment in science and technology can leverage those dol
- Texas providers to test pregnant women for HIV
- Associated Press - January 19, 2010
- A new law says Texas health care providers must test a pregnant woman for the virus that causes AIDS during the last three trimester unless she objects. Allison Lowery with the Department of State Health Services says the law, which took effect this month, is meant to save children s lives. Lowery says mothers-to-be ge
- N.Y. prosecutor blasts 'how-to' drug pamphlet
- Associated Press - January 17, 2010
- New York -- A New York City-funded guidebook for heroin users offers information on how to prepare drugs carefully and care for veins to avoid infection. The state s top official with the Drug Enforcement Administration calls the Take Charge Take Care guide a step-by-step instruction on how to inject a poison. DEA spec
- Canadian government loses appeal to shut down British Columbia's safe-injection site
- Associated Press - January 15, 2010
- Jeremy Hainsworth, Associated Press Writer
- Vancouver, British Columbia (AP) -- British Columbia s top court on Friday rejected an attempt by the Canadian government to close North America s first safe injection site for drug users. The site, where people can inject illegal drugs with clean needles under a nurse s supervision, has operated since 2003 under a tem
- HIV testing jumps at Detroit clinic after hoax
- Associated Press - January 15, 2010
- Corey Williams, Associated Press Writer
- Detroit - The number of walk-ins for HIV testing more than doubled in Detroit a day after local news reports appeared of a woman who falsely claimed over the Internet to have infected more than 500 people with the virus, city health officials said. Police said she admitted the story was a hoax. But as of 1 p.m., 16 peo
- Police: Woman lied about infecting others with HIV
- Associated Press - January 15, 2010
- Corey Williams, Associated Press Writer
- A Detroit woman who claimed in a video posted online that she infected more than 500 people with HIV has admitted it was a hoax, police said Friday. On the video, the woman said she contracted HIV in 1998 and has been pretty upset about having to suffer. She also said she has set out to destroy the world because a cure
- Nighttime HIV, AIDS testing event set in Las Vegas
- Associated Press - January 13, 2010
- Las Vegas, NV (AP) -- Southern Nevada health officials are offering free rapid HIV and AIDS testing in Las Vegas as part of a multi-city event on Friday night. The drive is called the AIDS Healthcare Foundation HIV Testing Tour Across America. The Southern Nevada Health District is taking part with Aid for AIDS of Neva
- Uganda lawmaker refuses to withdraw anti-gay bill
- Associated Press - January 8, 2010
- Godfrey Olukya, Associated Press Writer
- KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- A Ugandan lawmaker on Friday refused to withdraw proposed legislation that would impose the death penalty for some gays and lesbians despite international condemnation and presidential opposition to a measure that could scare off foreign investors. Lawmaker David Bahati said he will not heed a c
- Study Tests Interaction of HIV, H1N1 Vaccine: Saint Louis University enrolling HIV-positive adults for H1N1 vaccine trial.
- Associated Press - January 7, 2010
- ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Researchers at Saint Louis University are recruiting HIV-infected adults for a clinical trial of how the swine flu virus may affect them. The researchers will also study the subjects immune response to the H1N1 vaccine. Saint Louis University is one of a half-dozen sites conducting the study. The enti
- Iowa HIV, AIDS diagnoses on rise
- Associated Press - January 7, 2010
- CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - The Iowa Department of Health is reporting an increase in the number of HIV and AIDS diagnoses reported in the state. Health department spokesman Jerry Harms says 70 HIV cases and 46 AIDS diagnoses were reported during the first half of 2009. Harms says figures for the entire 2009 year won t be ava
- Ugandan President Urges Softening of Anti-Gay Bill
- Associated Press - January 7, 2010
- KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Gay Ugandans likely won t face the death penalty after the president said he opposed the provision in proposed legislation, but an international gay rights group said Thursday even a watered-down bill would be repressive. President Yoweri Museveni has told colleagues he believes the bill is too
- Group urges China to shut drug detention centers where users face abuse, forced labor
- Associated Press - January 6, 2010
- Gillian Wong, Associated Press Writer
- BEIJING (AP) -- Drug addicts are denied proper treatment in China s state-run rehabilitation centers and are sometimes beaten and forced to work without pay, a human rights group said Thursday. A 2008 law demanding humanitarian treatment and banning punishment of drug users in detention has been poorly implemented, lea
- Gilead Sciences says experimental 'Quad' HIV therapy is meeting goal in early part of trial
- Associated Press - January 6, 2010
- FOSTER CITY, Calif. (AP) -- Gilead Sciences Inc. said Wednesday its experimental four-drug HIV regimen is working as well as its current drug cocktail in a mid-stage clinical trial. Gilead said the regimen of two experimental drugs called elvitegravir and GS 9350, as well as the combination drug
- NYC prosecutor blasts 'how-to' drug pamphlet
- Associated Press - January 5, 2010
- Karen Matthews, Associated Press Writer
- New York City s top narcotics prosecutor said Tuesday that a city Health Department brochure that teaches intravenous drug users how to shoot up safely is wrongheaded because there is no safe way to inject heroin. Special narcotics prosecutor Bridget Brennan said the two-year-old brochure was brought to her attention b
- UN praises US and SKorea for lifting HIV travel ban, urges 57 countries to follow quickly
- Associated Press - January 4, 2010
- WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United Nations is praising the United States and South Korea for lifting travel bans on people with HIV and is urging 57 other countries with travel restrictions to end them quickly. President Barack Obama signed a bill in October to overturn a 22-year-old travel and imm
- NYC-funded handout called how-to for heroin users
- Associated Press - January 4, 2010
- New York (AP) -- A New York City-funded guidebook for heroin users offers information on how to prepare drugs carefully and care for veins to avoid infection. The state s top official with the Drug Enforcement Administration calls the Take Charge Take Care guide a step-by-step instruction on how to inject a poison. DE
- Clinton foundation draws eclectic donor list
- Associated Press - January 2, 2010
- Sharon Theimer, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Former President Bill Clinton s charity drew an international roster of donors last year, ranging from Norway and Oman to foreign lotteries, businessmen and celebrities, a contributor list released under an ethics promise by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton showed.
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