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C. Everett Koop, ex-surgeon general who spoke out on AIDS, dies
C. Everett Koop, who raised the profile of the surgeon general by riveting America’s attention on the then-emerging disease known as AIDS and by railing against smoking, has died in New Hampshire at age 96.
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Ohio agency approves $1.2M in AIDS housing grants
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Four organizations serving the needs of Ohioans living with AIDS or HIV-related diseases have won approval from the state for grants totaling more than $1.2 million.
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Kansas ends free HIV testing in most rural counties
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Health advocates are warning that Kansas’ decision to stop providing free HIV testing for many small, rural communities restricts services for some of the most vulnerable in the state.
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To the reader who saved my life…
Dear Bob, As we enter this new year, full of promise and possibility, I realized that I could not in all fairness properly close out the old without first repaying a major debt. One that I owe to you, dear reader, for quite literally saving my life. … You likely had no idea, when you reached for the book, that the very act of reading it could so profoundly affect me, and all for the better. How could you know, after all, that while I’d long envisioned a life for myself as a writer, until you contacted me, I’d begun to consider stopping altogether?
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LGBT, AIDS cuts held off two months under ‘fiscal cliff’ deal
The legislative package that Congress passed this week to avert the “fiscal cliff” puts off for only two months devastating across-the-board budget cuts to federal programs — including programs directly relevant to LGBT people and people with HIV/AIDS — putting advocates in the position to continuing fighting for them in the weeks to come.
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The private war that killed Spencer Cox
Gay activists like Spencer Cox were consumed by AIDS for so many gruesome years that many of them were shocked, once the war abated, to see how little around them had changed. Climbing from the trenches, they saw a gay culture that must have seemed ludicrous, packed with the same drug addictions, sexual compulsions and soulless shenanigans that AIDS, in its singular act of goodwill, had arrested for a decade or so.
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CDC: 22 percent increase in new HIV infection rates among gay, bisexual men
ATLANTA — The number of new HIV infections for young gay and bisexual men has risen by 22 percent between 2008 and 2010, according to a new study released this week by the Centers For Disease Control (CDC).
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Pioneering AIDS activist Spencer Cox dies of HIV-related complications
Spencer Cox, the the New York-based AIDS activist who was featured in the documentary “How to Survive a Plague,” died Tuesday of complications related to HIV. He was 44.
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Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber: AIDS a metaphor of ‘God’s love for gays’
Matt Barber, Director of Cultural Affairs for the anti-gay organization Liberty Counsel, marked World AIDS Day with a tweet on Friday declaring that AIDS is a metaphor of “God’s love for gays,” with a link to a photograph of a young AIDS victim on his deathbed.
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White House commemorates World AIDS Day with Presidential Proclamation
President Barack Obama on Friday issued this Presidential Proclamation in advance of World AIDS Day, an annual observance to raise awareness and commemorate those who have lost their lives to one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history.