All posts tagged "aids 2012"
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Networking for Women
Ahead of the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012), an Oakland, Calif.-based HIV/AIDS organization for women is partnering with the conference to advocate for research...
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What's in a Name?
In the late 1980s, epidemiologists adopted the expression ''men having sex with men'' to categorize routes of HIV transmission, to acknowledge that not all such...
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Diaspora and Disparity
Education and awareness can prove powerful tools in the fight against HIV/AIDS. While that might seem obvious to some, it's especially important in underserved, poorer...
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Serious Business
Next month, Washington will play host to AIDS 2012: The XIX International AIDS Conference and its 20,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries – including 800...
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Epidemic Update
When Whitman-Walker Health, the local community health center specializing in LGBT and HIV/AIDS care, hosts its July 21 forum on HIV/AIDS at George Washington University's...
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AIDS Quilt's Double Duty
The AIDS Memorial Quilt, marking its 25th anniversary, is returning to D.C. The quilt, memorializing the victims lost to HIV/AIDS, was last displayed in full...
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Men's Summer Summits
Health activists, get ready for a busy July, because Washington will be playing the role of host city. With D.C. set to host the 19th...
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Home Front and ''Heroes''
Wallace Corbett knows HIV better than most. As co-chair of the DC Community Coalition (DCC), a cross-section of people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS...
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Marching on Washington
It may be a year until the International AIDS Conference returns to the U.S. – to D.C., specifically – but the planning is well underway,...
