AIDS Monastery Ordered Closed In Myanmar
During the junta’s crackdown on pro-democracy activists, the state regime closed down Maggin Monastery, a hospice that provided treatment to AIDS patients. No reason was given as to why the monastery was closed down.
Source: 365 Gay News
Clinton Calls For Sweeping Action On AIDS
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton proposed a broad agenda to combat diseases in the United States as well as around the world. Her proposal calls for preventative measures against HIV/AIDS, particularly among minorities. As president, she would double the HIV/AIDS research budget at the National Institutes of Health - to $5.2 billion annually - and spend at least $50 billion within five years around the globe.
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Global estimate of HIV infections falls sharply as counting changes
UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, has dramatically revised downward the number of people it counts as living with the infection, to 33.2 million in 2007 compared with 39.5 million in 2006.
It amounts to an admission by the world AIDS agency that it has overestimated the number of people living with HIV infection, but the revamped total still represents a ghastly human tragedy. The same analysis predicts that this year, 2.1 million will die of the disease and another 2.5 million will have become newly infected - 6,800 new infections every day.
Source: SF Chronicle
Nation’s capital Has Severe HIV Epidemic, Report Finds
Washington, D.C., has the highest rate of AIDS in the United States, and more babies are born with the AIDS virus in Washington than in other U.S. cities, according to a report released on Monday.
The report found that Washington, with a population of around 600,000 people, has a rate of 128 AIDS cases per 100,000 people in 2006, compared with a national rate of 14 cases per 100,000. The city accounted for 9 percent of all pediatric AIDS cases in the United States during 2005.
Of the 12,428 people infected with HIV in Washington, 80 percent are black, the report found. More than 8,300 had fully progressed to AIDS and 224 died of AIDS in 2006.
Source: NYTimes
Former Rep. Henry Hyde Is Dead at 83
The late representative Henry J. Hyde, a critic of the previous Clinton administration and a staunch anti-abortionist, committed the United States to invest $5 billions dollars in combating HIV/AIDS worldwide.
Source: NYTimes
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