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In observation of World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, students and community members gathered in the Rendezvous to create condom pins. The pins were made to be worn as reminders for people to practice safe sex and prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. "It's a conversation starter.
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Bryce Fitzpatrick was working at the Cheesecake Factory at Chandler Fashion Center when he was promoted from server to food expeditor, a step toward management. One day, while he was inside the produce walk-in to hunt down watercress, the door suddenly swung open.
By WILLIAM S. LIND WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's first test in the national security arena after taking the oath of office to become the 44th president of the United States is likely to come not from al-Qaida or Iran or the Taliban in Afghanistan but from within his own Democratic Party.
Monday marks the 20th year for World AIDS Day, and the virus is continuing to affect the black community and men who have sex with men at disproportionate rates, the McClatchy/Detroit Free Press reports (Satyanarayana [1], McClatchy/Detroit Free Press, 11/29). An estimated 56,300 people in the U.S.
Gus Van Sant's "Milk" isn't just a mainstream-minded Oscar candidate; it's also a rallying cry. With Sean Penn starring as Harvey Milk, the openly gay San Francisco supervisor who was gunned down in 1978, the movie makes its message clear: Gay people must be "out" to be counted.
Treatments have come far BUT research shows that one third of people living with HIV in London have been discriminated against and many are living in poverty. Too many people with HIV are still facing high levels of social and economic hardship, argues Professor Jonathan Elford of City University London.
Task Force president Chris Doss said the destructive epidemic took 3.1 million lives in 2007, with half a million of that number represented by children.
In 2000, Rene Nonenmacher lost some family members, friends and her job. That was just after she found out that she was HIV-positive. "My ex-boss said, 'You're fired. I can't believe you've been around my grandchildren,' " Nonenmacher said.
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Compared to straight men, gay men are more likely to be left-handed, to be the younger siblings of older brothers and to have hair that whorls in a counterclockwise direction.
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