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July 02, 2009
Web-based Video Game Educates Positive Teens
A new Web-based game called +CLICK (Positive Click) is educating HIV-positive teens about how to avoid transmitting the virus to their sexual partners, Reuters reports. 
Higher HIV Risk Among Black MSM Linked to Fewer Potential Partners
A new study from the San Francisco Department of Public Health suggests that black men have an increased risk of HIV because they have closely connected sexual networks and fewer partners to choose from, Pink News reports.
Canada’s HIV Vaccine Ready for Human Testing in U.S.
Canadian researchers are awaiting approval to begin human trials of an HIV/AIDS vaccine in the United States, CBC News reports. The vaccine has already passed safety tests in animals.
July 01, 2009
Lady Gaga Supports HIV-Positive Youth in England
Pop singer Lady Gaga recently paid a visit to Body Positive North West, an AIDS service organization in Manchester, England, that caters to young people living with and affected by HIV, The Telegraph reports. She met with volunteers from the organization and helped them paint a mural of herself.
Ryan White’s Mom Remembers Michael Jackson
The mother of Ryan White, a hemophiliac teenager who died of AIDS-related illness in 1990 after contracting HIV through a blood transfusion, mourns the loss of music icon Michael Jackson, who died from cardiac arrest on June 25, FOX 35 reports. Jackson befriended the teen in the late 1980s and, after Ryan’s death, dedicated a song to him titled “Gone Too Soon.”
WHO: TB Vaccination Fatal for Babies With HIV
A new three-year study by the World Health Organization (WHO) has shown that babies with HIV could die if given a standard tuberculosis vaccine, The Associated Press reports. The study was published July 1 in the journal Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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