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Magic Johnson on National Black AIDS Awareness day: 'Bring the numbers down'

By theGrio

1:36 PM on 02/07/2012

It's estimated that at some point in our lifetime, 1 in 16 black men will be diagnosed as HIV positive and 1 in 32 women will contract HIV...
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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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South Africa recalls 1.35 million defective condoms

By theGrio

11:28 AM on 01/31/2012

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South Africa is recalling 1.35 million condoms given away at the African National Congress party's centenary celebrations amid charges some broke during intercourse and others were porous...
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Wrestler Andre Davis gets 32 years in HIV assault case

By theGrio

9:52 AM on 01/24/2012

CINCINNATI (AP) - A former professional wrestler was sentenced Monday to 32 years in prison for having sex with women without telling them he had tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS...
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Ron Paul racist newsletters: The top 10 most racially insensitive claims

By theGrio

10:55 AM on 12/24/2011

SLIDESHOW - Ron Paul is catching hell this week for racist (or at the very least racially insensitive) newsletters that were distributed in his name throughout the 90s...
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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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Blacks targeted? Top AIDS conspiracy theories

By News One

5:02 PM on 12/01/2011

NEWS ONE - As far as some African-Americans are concerned there is significant possibility that there is a conspiracy behind the spread of HIV/AIDS in the black community...
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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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Obama on AIDS: 'We can beat this disease'

By theGrio

11:54 AM on 12/01/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - 'We can beat this disease,' Obama declared during a World AIDS Day event in Washington. Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton also participated via satellite...
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AIDS Day powerfully personal for larger-than-life Alvin Ailey

By Ronda Racha Penrice

9:56 AM on 12/01/2011

theGRIO REPORT - World AIDS Day is powerfully personal for the legendary Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater...
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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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HIV patients die after pastor says they're healed

By Clutch Magazine

1:55 PM on 11/30/2011

CLUTCH - According to Sky News, at least six people infected with HIV died after they were told by their evangelical pastors that they were healed and no longer needed to take their medication...
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UN: AIDS epidemic stabilizing, still work to do

By theGrio

8:21 AM on 11/21/2011

LONDON (AP) - Critics say that the body's aim of wiping out the disease is overly optimistic, however, considering there is no vaccine, millions remain untreated and donations have slumped amid the economic crisis...
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