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 October 31, 2005
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FDA Approves The New Kaletra
Monday, Oct. 31, 2005—Drug-maker Abbott Laboratories announced
Monday that the FDA has given the
go ahead for a reformulated Kaletra...
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October 26, 2005
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U.N. Says Come Together for HIV Positive Kids
Wednesday, October 26, 2005—Ten United Nations agencies kicked off an HIV kiddie-caring campaign yesterday by text-messaging millions of African cell phone users about the new initiative, called Unite for Children, Unite Against AIDS.
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Entry Inhibitor Gets Go-Ahead
Wednesday, October 26, 2005—Experimental med TNX-355, one of two dozen drugs in a new class of AIDS meds known as entry inhibitors, appeared successful at the end of a 24-week study.
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October 25, 2005
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Retarded Man Sues For HIV Discrimination
Tuesday, October 25, 2005—A mentally retarded man filed a federal lawsuit this week after a Chicago nonprofit that cares for the developmentally disabled denied him housing and his old pet store job after learning he has HIV.
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Hep C Meds: The Race Is On
Tuesday, October 25, 2005—Among the nearly two dozen hepatitis C meds in the pharma pipeline, three frontrunners are showing early promise in fighting the liver-attacking virus that plagues one out of three HIVers—and is famously hard to treat.
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October 24, 2005
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St. John’s Wort Beats More Than The HIV Blues
Monday, October 24, 2005—A protein extracted from the allegedly depression-busting root known as St. John’s Wort may also help fight HIV, according to Temple University researchers.
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South Africa’s Deceased May Get Tagged
Monday, October 24, 2005—South African undertakers called Monday for deceased PWAs to be identified by their illness on all death certificates, saying fluid seepage from the bodies poses a danger to workers who handle them.
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October 22, 2005
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Frog Sweat vs. HIV
Friday, October 21, 2005—Certain frog secretions can kill HIV in a test tube, according to researchers at Vanderbilt University.
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Viagra and Circuit Parties Take It On The Chin
Friday, October 21, 2005—It was a bad week for the all-night sex party scene, with Congress cutting Medicare and Medicaid coverage of Viagra, and gay circuit parties—first created for AIDS prevention—found to increase HIV risk.
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October 21, 2005
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DELETE THIS
Friday, October 21, 2005—It was a bad week for the all-night sex party scene, with Congress cutting Medicare and Medicaid coverage of Viagra, and gay circuit parties—first created for AIDS prevention—found to increase HIV risk.
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October 20, 2005
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Illinois ID's People With HIV
Thursday, October 20, 2005—Illinois will soon begin tracking people
living with HIV by name rather than confidential code, health officials
announced Wednesday.
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French Actress: “J’ai le SIDA!”
Thursday, October 20, 2005—A prominent French actress revealed this week in a new book that she had been HIV positive for 20 years or so, a rare admission among public figures in France.
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October 19, 2005
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Do Docs Discriminate?
Wednesday, October 19, 2005—Twenty-six percent of HIV positive people
say they feel discriminated against by doctors and other health care
providers for their HIV status, according to the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
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Pharmacies May Face Serostim Charges
Wednesday, October 19, 2005—Pharmacies that sold the lipo-busting drug Serostim may face federal
investigation, according to court documents filed in yesterday’s $704
million settlement.
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Noah's Arc Sets Sail
Wednesday, October 19, 2005—Tonight, the LOGO network debuts Noah's Arc, the first gay, black television series.
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October 18, 2005
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Serono Pays Up
Tuesday, October 18, 2005—Swiss drug maker Serono Laboratories agreed
to pay $704 million and pleaded guilty yesterday to boosting sales
of
Serostim—used to treat HIV-med-related wasting—by offering docs free
trips
to the south of France for writing Serostim scrips and manipulating a
test for AIDS patients.
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Law And Order: SVU On The Superbug
Tuesday, October 18, 2005—On tonight’s episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit,
an AIDS activist stands trial for allegedly killing two HIVers who
carried the "deadly and contagious new strain of AIDS, which is
becoming an epidemic," according to the show’s summary.
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October 17, 2005
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AIDS Walkers' Weekend
Monday, October 17, 2005—Hundreds of HIVers and advocates in New York and Philadelphia laced up their sneakers this
weekend to raise AIDS funds and awareness.
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Bulgaria to Libya and U.S.: Let My People Go
Monday, October 17, 2005—Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov is scheduled to meet with U.S. President
George Bush today to discuss the case of the five Bulgarian nurses
sentenced to death in Libya for allegedly infecting more
than 400 children with HIV.
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October 14, 2005
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Jeff Palmer Passes
Friday, October 14, 2005—HIVer Jeff Palmer, who founded and directed
the Wyoming HIV support center Positives for Positives, passed away on
Monday, October 3, at age 59.
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U.S. AIDS Aid Falls Short
Friday, October 14, 2005—“At least 60 percent of U.S. foreign aid
funding never leaves the US,” writes Helen Epstein in this week’s New
York Review of Books.
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October 13, 2005
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HIV Tests Home for the Holidays?
Thursday, October 13, 2005—The Food and Drug Administration has agreed to consider approving Home HIV tests, in the form of an oral saliva swab that yields results in 20 minutes.
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October 10, 2005
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Condom Saves Kiwi
Monday, October 10, 2005—A New Zealand judge ruled last week that Justin
Dalley’s decision to wear a condom when he had sex last year with a
woman he met online outweighed the “moral” failure of not telling her he had HIV.
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Soap Dish
All nine of the major network soap operas began airing stories last week about African children orphaned or affected by HIV.
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LeRoy Whitfield Dies
Monday, October 10, 2005—Former POZ Senior Editor LeRoy Whitfield, an eloquent and influential writer who documented the impact of HIV on the African-American community—and on his own life—died yesterday.
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October 06, 2005
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Unsafe Sex at the Movies
Thursday, October 6, 2005—Does the big screen promote condomless sex? That was the finding of an Australian study published Monday...
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October 03, 2005
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HIV Getting Weaker?
Monday, October 3, 2005—Belgian researchers say two decades of world
domination have taken their toll on the most common variety of HIV: the
virus can’t get around as easily as it used to.
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