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Hello Friends, Today is WORLD AIDS DAY…the first World AIDS Day began on December 1,1988…today marks the 22nd year since being found to help raise AIDS awareness, fight prejudice and improve education.  We can thank, James Bunn and Thomas Netter who came up with the idea…they shared their idea in late 1987 with the Director

What does it mean to live with HIV? Click on the following link to view a slideshow put together by Positively Aware magazine. The magazine collected pictures from all kinds of people living with HIV & AIDS. A DAY WITH HIV IN AMERICA Slideshow  

The FDA is planning a bold new look for the warning labels for cigarettes. The images are graphic and shocking at times, but the FDA plans to take into account public comments and results from a large study to decide how to move forward with the campaign. Apparently, the decline in cigarette smoking over the

A South African pastor shocked his congregation Sunday by relaying a story in which Jesus was HIV positive. The pastor was using the story to bring awareness of the stigma that those with HIV face in society.   He said, "The best gift we can give to people who are HIV-positive is to help de-stigmatize

  Monday, September 27 marks National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day — a perfect day to go out and get tested. On the heels of a disturbing report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that one in five men living in urban areas is HIV-positive and about half of them are unaware that

According to a new federal study, one in five sexually active gay and bisexual men are carrying the HIV virus, and almost half of those don’t even know it. The study, released Thursday, is the largest to look at gay and bisexual men who are at high risk for contracting the virus. More than 8,000

  National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is observed each year on September 27 to focus on the disproportionate effects of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic on gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM). In 2007, the estimated HIV diagnosis rate among MSM was 692 per 100,000, which was 44