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March 29, 2006
The Frieden Files: A NY Debate on Privacy and Testing
Falling in line with the national trend toward loosening HIV confidentiality and consent for HIV testing, New York City Health Commissioner Thomas R. Frieden, MD, is petitioning the state to open up patient files to public officials, collect as-yet undefined “additional information” and stop requiring counseling and written consent before every HIV test. 
March 22, 2006
Weapons of War: Rape and HIV Haunt Rwanda
Hundreds of thousands of Rwandan women were raped and purposefully infected with HIV during the 1994 war in that East African country, but 12 years later the effects are not measurable in numbers. 
March 15, 2006
Bush Abstains From Appointing HIV Experts
An antigay pastor with no HIV-related experience is to be sworn in tomorrow in Washington to help advise President George W. Bush on how best to fight the epidemic. The president hasn’t been one to shy away from making openly political appointments to the Presidential Advisory Counsil on HIV/AIDS (PACHA)—or from otherwise beefing up “abstinence-only” influence on government policy and funding. But some of his critics say he has gone too far in choosing the Reverend Herbert Lusk.
March 08, 2006
AIDS in Hollywood: Good Night, and Good Luck
When George Clooney accepted his golden man at the Oscars on Sunday, he got some of the night’s loudest applause for patting Hollywood on the back as “the first ones to shout about AIDS when it was just a whisper.” It was a heady endorsement from a man so closely connected to two of the year’s edgiest flicks. But did the mainstream movie industry have it coming?
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