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      <title>Web-based Video Game Educates Positive Teens</title>
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A new Web-based game called <span style="font-style: italic;">+CLICK</span> (<span style="font-style: italic;">Positive Click</span>) is educating HIV-positive teens about how to avoid transmitting the virus to their sexual partners, Reuters reports.&nbsp;


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      <title>Higher HIV Risk Among Black MSM Linked to Fewer Potential Partners</title>
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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.


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      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Canada&amp;#8217;s HIV Vaccine Ready for Human Testing in U.S.</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[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.

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      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Lady Gaga Supports HIV-Positive Youth in England</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[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, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Telegraph</span> reports. She met with volunteers from the organization and helped them paint a mural of herself.

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      <title>Ryan White&amp;#8217;s Mom Remembers Michael Jackson</title>
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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&#8217;s death, dedicated a song to him titled &#8220;Gone Too Soon.&#8221;]]></description>
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      <title>WHO: TB Vaccination Fatal for Babies With HIV</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[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 <span style="font-style: italic;">Bulletin of the World Health Organization</span>.&nbsp;

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      <pubDate>Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>White House Enlists Ashton Kutcher to Promote HIV Testing on Twitter</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In light of Ashton Kutcher&#8217;s substantial Twitter following&#8212;2.5 million people subscribe to his updates&#8212;the White House asked the actor to spread the word about National HIV Testing Day, which was June 27, Politico reports.&nbsp;

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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Fatalistic Youth More Likely to Engage in Risky Behavior</title>
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New research shows that about 15 percent of young people think they&#8217;re going to die early, which is why they are more likely to abuse drugs, attempt suicide, participate in other unsafe behavior&#8212;and to be diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, the <span style="font-style: italic;">Los Angeles Times</span> reports. The study appears in the July issue of <span style="font-style: italic;">Pediatrics</span>.&nbsp;


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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Malawi Bolsters Treatment Access</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Malawi already gives a quarter million of its HIV-positive citizens free antiretrovirals (ARVs), but the sub-Saharan African country plans to produce the meds locally and export extra drugs to neighboring countries, Agence France-Presse reports.&nbsp;

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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Obama Takes Steps to End the HIV Travel Ban</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The federal Office of Management and Budget posted a notice on its website June 26 saying that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) could take steps to remove a travel regulation that prohibits HIV-positive travelers from entering the United States, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Advocate</span> reports. Specifics about the regulatory change will be available in the next few days.

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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>LA County Jail Might Double Condom Distribution to Combat HIV</title>
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Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca is considering doubling the number of condoms that are distributed to the 300 men who have sex with men (MSM) in Men&#8217;s Central Jail in response to the rising HIV infection rate in state prisons, the <span style="font-style: italic;">Los Angeles Times</span> reports.


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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>United Black Media Companies Confront AIDS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[On June 25, the U.S. Black AIDS Media Partnership unveiled &#8220;Greater Than AIDS,&#8221; a multifaceted campaign that seeks to promote unity among Black Americans in response to HIV/AIDS.&nbsp; ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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