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World War on AIDS -- at Last
--> June 25, 2001 -- At last the world is facing up to its 20-year-old AIDS crisis. Whether it is a case of "better late than never" or "too little too late" remains to be seen. Beginning today, the United Nations will formally take up the issue of AIDS. After three days of deliberations -- which fo
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Unclear HIV Test Should Not Necessarily Bar Blood Donors
June 14, 2001 (Washington) -- Blood donors who have been banned from donating because of unclear tests for HIV or the hepatitis C virus should be allowed to donate again provided they undergo follow-up tests that confirm they are not infected with either of these viruses, a panel of experts convened
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AIDS Marks 20th Anniversary
June 5, 2001 --Twenty years ago today, the first cases of a strange new disease that ravages the immune system were reported to the public by the CDC in Atlanta. Because all five cases were homosexual men with similar symptoms, officials at that time believed they were dealing with a gay-related dis
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Gay, Bisexual Black Men Now Face Greatest AIDS Risk
May 31, 2001 (Washington) -- Twenty years after AIDS was first reported by U.S. public health officials, it's still a killer. However, new research indicates the epidemic is having a particularly devastating impact on gay, black Americans, and it appears the threat to this group is on the rise. "Gay
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Scientists Refute Theory About the Origin of HIV
April 25, 2001 -- The life history of a virus, like that of a family or group of people, is the stuff of epic storytelling: how it emerges somewhere in the mists of time, travels across borders and species, awaiting the proper setting and circumstances to blossom into an epidemic wreaking havoc on t
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Drug Combo Protects Babies From AIDS
April 24, 2001 -- Giving AIDS-infected pregnant women two drugsinstead of one may be a more effective way to protect their babies frombecoming infected with HIV. It was seven years ago that researchers discovered a way to cutthe rate of babies getting HIV from their infected mothers by 70%. Followin
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Many May Be at Risk for AIDS and Not Know It
April 20, 2001 -- Pam Dewalt was infected with the HIV virus in 1981 at the age of 21, but she didn't know it for 11 years. During that time she was frequently sick and once even spent three weeks in the hospital for evaluation of her illness. Her doctors told her she probably had lupus or leukemia,
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For AIDS Patients, Subtle Thinking Problems Could Signal Later Dementia
April 18, 2001 -- Maine artist Elizabeth Ross Denniston says she has tried to put many of the worst memories of her son's death behind her. Bruce Denniston died of AIDS in 1992 at the age of 28, and his mother was his primary caregiver after he got too sick to take care of himself. She can't forget
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Vaccine Prevents AIDS in Monkeys
April 2, 2001 -- A new vaccine keeps monkeys from getting AIDS, even when they are infected with a particularly deadly AIDS virus. In the past year, two other vaccines have shown the same kind of protection. But unlike the others, this vaccine is being developed by pharmaceutical giant Merck, which
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Experimental AIDS Vaccine Keeps Virus Under Control in Monkeys
March 8, 2001 -- An experimental vaccine appears to keep immunized monkeys from developing AIDS even after they have become infected with a particularly aggressive strain of the virus that causes the disease. The discovery, reported in the March 8 issue of the journal Science, holds promise for a hu
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