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The AIDS Healthcare Foundation Europe is distributing an online sign-on petition - "EU - no retreat on AIDS!" - urging the European Commission to renew its commitment to funding for HIV.
19 hours ago | AHF Europe
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APCOM, one on the many organisations he helped to found, honours pioneering HIV and MSM activist Shivananda Khan, who died on 20 May.
21 May 2013 | APCOM (Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health)
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A newly created national coalition called Pozitively Healthy will advocate for people with HIV and AIDS following the closing in February of the 30-year-old National Association of People With AIDS (NAPWA), according to the coalition’s organizers.
17 May 2013 | Washington Blade
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Many of us AIDS-generation survivors in some way have unprocessed grief, or guilt, or an overwhelming sense of abandonment from a gay community that turned its back on us and increasingly stigmatizes us, all in an attempt to pretend that AIDS isn't its problem anymore.
15 May 2013 | Huffington Post
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I was escaping the epidemic by immersing myself in the politics and urgency of it, which seems paradoxical but really does make a lot of sense .I gave myself a special dispensation on grief and heartbreak. There was no time for grief, especially when anger and indignation was so much more empowering. Of course, what I'm painfully learning 25 years later is that you can put grief off, but you can't ever escape it.
10 May 2013 | Huffington Post
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A protest action organized by activists of "Patients in Control" took place in Moscow in front of the office of the largest distributor of ARV medications in Russia ("R-Pharm"). The activists were outraged about the fact that around 20 auctions for antiretrovirals in different regions did not take place because no bids were submitted; half of those tenders were for paediatric formulations.
03 May 2013 | EATG
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People don't need to just wait for governments to help them overcome problems in their own communities. Many communities in various countries, including Thailand, have proved successful in combating HIV/AIDS, a recent meeting of international partners dealing with HIV/AIDS was told.
22 April 2013 | The Nation
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100 Ukrainians with cotton sacks on their heads, as if condemned to death, lined into a living wall in front of the Cabinet, accompanied by beating of drums. All of them are patients with terminal illness - namely, hepatitis, tuberculosis, AIDS, and activists.
18 April 2013 | EATG
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An observation I hear often now, is that the gay community is divided into two camps; those who work in healthcare/campaigning/politics, and those who go clubbing and enjoy chem-sex.
16 April 2013 | Pink News
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At the Canadian Association of HIV/AIDS Researchers conference in Vancouver AIDS ACTION NOW! led people living with HIV, researchers, and doctors to stand in solidarity and call for members of the Canadian HIV research community to stop acting as paid expert witnesses on the side of Crown prosecutors in HIV non-disclosure trials.
16 April 2013 | AIDS Action Now
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