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Progress in the Fight Against AIDS and HIV
By Rod McCullom This month has seen a flurry of activity around new and exciting potential HIV-vaccine concepts. In Kenya, clinical trials began on two promising new designs for preventive HIV vaccines. In South Africa, researchers launched clinical trials for a therapeutic vaccine intended to strengthen the immune systems of people living with HIV/AIDS. And…
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Sex With an Ex-Con: The Challenges of Loving Safely
By Tamara E. Holmes Fourteen years ago, 25-year-old Precious Jackson did something that many young women her age do: She fell in love. Her boyfriend at the time had a lengthy rap sheet and was in and out of prison, but “those were the types of men that I really dug,” she recalls. “I liked…
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Pause Today to Remember Lost Loved Ones …
By Phill Wilson, founder and CEO of the Black AIDS Institute Today marks the 11th anniversary of Black AIDS Awareness Day, an annual commemoration that calls upon black people to take action against HIV and AIDS. Nobel Prize winner Andre Gide once said, “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no…
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High HIV Rates for Black Women Frighten Health Reporter
By Tomika Anderson My longtime lover and I were driving through Harlem when we passed a billboard that made me want to slam on the brakes and pull the car over. On it were two women — one black and one Latina — their pretty, youthful faces in lights. But under their pictures was a…
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