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Monkey meat that could be behind the next HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is now widely believed to have originated in chimps. Apes are known to host other potentially deadly viruses, such as ebola, anthrax, yellow fever and other potential viruses yet to be discovered. Deep in Cameroon's rainforests, poachers are killing primates for food. Evan Williams reports from Yokadouma on a practice that could create a pandemic

Published
25 May 2012
From
The Independent
HIV prevention policy
Cuba’s AIDS Sanitariums: Fortresses Against a Viral Foe

The network of sanitariums grew to 14. They were harshly criticized — Dr. Jonathan Mann, the first AIDS director at the World Health Organization, called them “pretty prisons” — but they had a huge damping effect on the early epidemic.

Published
08 May 2012
From
New York Times
Policy
Cuba: A Regime’s Tight Grip on AIDS

Whatever debate may linger about the government’s harsh early tactics — until 1993, everyone who tested positive for H.I.V. was forced into quarantine — there is no question that they succeeded. Cuba now has one of the world’s smallest epidemics, a mere 14,038 cases. Its infection rate is 0.1 percent, on par with Finland, Singapore and Kazakhstan.

Published
08 May 2012
From
New York Times
Epidemiology and behaviour
HIV/AIDS: Voices From Cuba

Profiles of a number of Cubans living with HIV

Published
08 May 2012
From
New York Times
Activism
New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt to Become National Treasure

On June 29, the New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt will be ceremonially turned over to Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand's national museum, as a taonga—a cultural treasure—Yahoo! News reports.

Published
27 April 2012
From
Poz magazine news
Activism
How Has Activism Changed Since the Early Years of ACT UP?

We asked community members -- some of them past members of ACT UP themselves -- how they believe activism has changed since ACT UP first stormed onto the world stage.

Published
26 April 2012
From
The Body
Activism
TAG at 20: Early Campaigns

On January 22, 2012, the Treatment Action Group marked its twentieth anniversary. Over the past two decades, we have helped to accelerate a historically unprecedented therapeutic revolution: the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in 1995–96, followed by its rollout to nearly seven million people worldwide.

Published
24 April 2012
From
TAG
Activism
Larry Kramer: Happy Birthday, ACT UP, Wherever You Are

It's difficult to be grateful when the AIDS plague is worse than ever all over the world and the two organizations I helped found to stop it are, if not no more, then in such pathetic shape as to almost be no more.

Published
28 March 2012
From
Huffington Post
History of HIV and AIDS
Pictures From a Battlefield - the men and women who started ACT UP

Twenty-five years ago, a group of young men and women started an organization called ACT UP to fight an enemy that, at the time, seemed almost unbeatable.

Published
27 March 2012
From
New York
Activism
ACT UP Commemorates 25th Anniversary

Saturday, March 24, marks 25 years since the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) held its first action. 

Published
23 March 2012
From
Poz magazine news
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