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Fighting the spread of HIV by posing on the dance floor
Beneath the neon lights of a banquet hall on an industrial stretch of the city, models strutted across an elevated stage in homemade evening gowns and tuxedos adorned with sequins, lace and something atypical for the runway: Trojan condom wrappers.
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Consumer group sues Aetna, says policy discriminates against HIV patients
The lawsuit alleges a new policy violates the privacy of people with HIV and AIDS by requiring them to get their medications from its mail-order pharmacy.
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FDA favors ending lifetime ban on blood donations from gay, bisexual men
The FDA says it favors ending the nation’s lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, replacing it with a policy barring donations from men who have had sex with men in the previous 12 months.
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Lawmakers call on HHS to end ban on blood donations from gay, bisexual men
Eighty congressional lawmakers sent a letter Monday to Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell, calling for the Department to replace the FDA’s lifetime ban on blood donations from men who have sex with men with a policy based on individual risk factors.
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FDA advisory panel has no plans to reconvene, vote on ending gay blood ban
The Blood Products Advisory Committee will not reconvene to continue discussions or to recommend that the FDA end its lifetime ban on blood donations from men who have sex with men.
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‘Religious zealot’ pastor who wishes all gays were dead defends sermon
The pastor who declared that putting gay people to death would lead to an “AIDS-free world by Christmas,” defends his anti-gay sermon, in which he also claims “all homos are pedophiles.”
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Arizona pastor predicts ‘AIDS-free world by Christmas’ if all ‘homos’ are killed
TEMPE, Ariz. — A pastor in Tempe, Ariz. said Sunday that if humanity wants to have an “AIDS-free world by Christmas,” then gays should be put to death as God has ordered in the scriptures.
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Report: New HIV diagnoses on steady decline in Chicago
CHICAGO — Chicago health officials say new HIV diagnoses in the city have been steadily declining over the past 13 years. The Chicago Department of Public Health released a new report Monday to coincide with World AIDS Day. The report cites a 41 percent decline in new HIV cases since 2001.
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New HIV diagnoses hit all-time low in New York City
NEW YORK — The number of new HIV diagnoses in New York City has reached an all-time low. The city’s Department of Health released the news on Monday – World AIDS Day.
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World AIDS Day: For the countless many, gone too soon
Thirty-three years ago, on June 5, in 1981, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta published a report of five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) among previously healthy young men in Los Angeles. All of the men were described as “homosexuals” — two had died.