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Black America must be at the table in the battle against HIV/AIDS

By Michael Hinson and Lisa Fager Bediako

3:00 PM on 02/07/2012

OPINION - After 30 years of the HIV pandemic, one might think that terms such as 'community collaboration' and 'community participation' would be commonplace among those fighting the disease...
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HIV/AIDS and Black America: How we can end the epidemic

By Phill Wilson

8:38 AM on 02/07/2012

OPINION - Despite initially being mischaracterized, HIV/AIDS has disproportionately affected black Americans since the very beginning of the epidemic...
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Gender-based violence and HIV linked

By Onome Akpogheneta

1:30 PM on 12/02/2011

theGRIO REPORT - Women make up 50 percent of the 34 million people living with HIV-AIDS globally, and new reports show that HIV-positive women may face more gender-based violence than HIV-negative women...
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World AIDS Day: Obama addresses black gay male infections

By theGrio

12:51 PM on 12/02/2011

President Obama challenged the world to usher in an AIDS-free generation during a panel discussion in George Washington University this morning to commemorate World AIDS Day..
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Black celebrities who died of AIDS: We remember you

By Alexis Garrett Stodghill

4:21 PM on 12/01/2011

SLIDESHOW - Black celebrities who have died of AIDS sometimes do not receive the attention that others lost to this terrible disease often do. TheGrio wants to say: We remember you...
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Pro-wrestler exposes partners to HIV: How sex is used as a weapon

By Dr. Terrance McGill

1:43 PM on 12/01/2011

theGRIO REPORT - Pro-wrestler, Andre Davis, known as "the Gangsta of Love," has been convicted of knowingly having sexual intercourse with women while infected with HIV.
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5 myths that must go in war against HIV-AIDS

By Candace Y.A. Montague

9:02 AM on 12/01/2011

theGRIO REPORT - Here are five myths that simply must go if we are ever going to advance further in the war against HIV-AIDS...
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Hershey, Pa. school turns away boy with HIV

By theGrio

8:23 AM on 12/01/2011

HERSHEY - The Milton Hersey School was founded by the chocolate tycoon as a school that 'nurtures and educates children in social and financial need to lead fulfilling and productive lives'...
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World AIDS Day 2011: Entering the fourth decade of HIV

By theGrio

8:04 PM on 11/30/2011

HUFFINGTON POST - 'I'm going to be in the New England Journal of Medicine,' a patient once told me proudly. 'Not me exactly, but my X-rays.' It was the happiest I had ever seen him...
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West must not give up on AIDS fight

By theGrio

7:37 PM on 11/30/2011

It should be time to celebrate key milestones in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Recently, the United Nations announced that new infections and related deaths fell to their lowest levels...
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HIV treatment lags in U.S., guaranteeing more infections

By theGrio

7:08 PM on 11/30/2011

The latest numbers show that only 28 percent of the nation's 1.2 million HIV-infected people are getting effective treatment...
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On World AIDS Day, blacks remain outcasts

By theGrio

6:54 PM on 11/30/2011

Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day, and in the United States we must draw attention to the need to combat AIDS in the African-American community....
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Black churches crucial in stopping spread of HIV/AIDS

By theGrio

6:33 PM on 11/30/2011

[Today] is World AIDS Day, the international event to strengthen global efforts in the fight against HIV and AIDS. While the statistics in the black community are daunting there is hope...
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Magic Johnson's HIV reveal at 20: How awareness has changed

By Jay Scott Smith

3:15 PM on 11/07/2011

theGRIO REPORT - In 1991, being HIV positive was a veritable death sentence as the medications were often experimental or too expensive for most people to afford...
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New HIV case causes LA porn industry shutdown

By theGrio

3:59 PM on 08/30/2011

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Free Speech Coalition executive director Diane Duke told The Los Angeles Times on Monday that her group became aware of the HIV case Saturday...
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Income and education, not race, predicts HIV risk

By Dr. Tyeese Gaines

6:01 PM on 08/11/2011

theGRIO REPORT - The only factor more influential than socioeconomic status was having a previously diagnosed sexually transmitted infection -- such as herpes, chlamydia or gonorrhea....
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Magic Johnson wishes he hadn't retired so early

By theGrio

10:15 AM on 08/04/2011

The devastating news proved more painful than any injury. Yet, Magic Johnson vowed he'd survive. Delivering the news could have put strain on his marriage, but, in his eyes, it strengthened it...
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HIV rates increase by half among young black gay, bisexual men

By Dr. Tyeese Gaines

1:19 PM on 08/03/2011

theGRIO REPORT - This is not a coincidence, according to infectious disease experts...
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Anti-gay stigma sparks rise in black male HIV rates

By Dr. Kevin Fenton

1:00 PM on 08/03/2011

OPINION - A recent study of 21 major cities found that the majority of young black gay and bisexual men who were HIV-infected were unaware of their HIV status...
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Today is National HIV Testing Day

By theGrio

1:56 PM on 06/27/2011

WASHINGTON - Local health and treatment centers are offering free HIV testing nationwide to raise awareness and help those who may be unaware of their status...
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