In a forum called the “Compassion Forum,” intended to explore the issues of faith and compassion and how a “president’s faith can affect us all” and hosted by Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania, Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both called for increased attention to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, the Hartford Courant reports [...]
House Approves PEPFAR Bill
The House of Representatives yesterday passed a five-year reauthorization of the Bush administration’s global AIDS program, adding $20 billion to the $30 billion the president requested.
The program, originally known by the acronym PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), provides money to treat people infected with HIV and to help support their families, as well [...]
Kennedy Drops Transgendered From Senate ENDA
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is jumping into the middle of an uproar within the gay community whose causes he has long championed.
The Massachusetts Democrat is leading a push in the Senate for a federal ban on job bias against gays, lesbians and bisexuals - but not transsexuals, cross-dressers and others whose outward appearance doesn’t match [...]
Presidential candidate Huckabee wanted to isolate AIDS patients
The Associated Press revealed yesterday that as a candidate for the United States Senate in 1992, Mr. Huckabee said in a response in a 229-question survey that he believed that AIDS patients should be isolated from the public and that homosexuality was an “aberrant, unnatural and sinful lifestyle” that posed a “dangerous public risk.” When [...]
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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 [...]