AIDS

Source: uk.reuters.com --- 8 hours ago
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian court ruling to decriminalize gay sex will boost the fight against AIDS, but a powerful stigma against homosexuality and uneven quality of healthcare will still hamper efforts, a top AIDS worker said. ...

Source: www.miamiherald.com --- 1 day ago
A U.S. aid agency and Western Union Co. are teaming up to offer a cash boost to sub-Saharan Africans who live in the U.S. but have business plans back home. ...

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Source: blogs.zdnet.com --- 6 hours ago
I'm not sure how many farmers and ranchers read these posts, but certainly I can claim some rural business owners among my readers. So, if you are in a rural area of the United States AND you are a small business with fewer than 15 employees, you have until July 31, 2009, to apply for the USDA Rural Energy for America Program (REAP). The grants can be used to cover 25 percent of the total installed cost of a small wind turbine system, or another renewable energy system for that matter. They can be used in conjunction with the Federal Investment Tax Credit that applies to renewable energy technology investments. Caution, in the information I'm reading about this program, it... ...

Source: www.komonews.com --- 19 hours ago
Washington and Oregon cherry growers will be able to export sweet cherries to Japan more quickly under a new inspection protocol approved by that country Thursday. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 21 hours ago
Baylor College of Medicine This story by Ruth SoRelle, first published in the Spring 2006 issue of Baylor College of Medicine?s Solutions Magazine, explains how the Pediatric AIDS Corps, a group of volunteer doctors who treat HIV/AIDS patients on three ...

Source: www.bellinghamherald.com --- 23 hours ago
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Source: www.sindhtoday.net --- 1 day ago
New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) Health experts and activists Thursday said the Delhi High Court ruling decriminalising homosexuality will be a new tool in the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS as the closeted gay community is a high-risk group. The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) Director-General K. Sujatha Rao told IANS: "It is a positive judgment. Decriminalising this high-risk group has made our job easier as we will be able to reach out to them. This will help the public health system." ...

Source: www.sindhtoday.net --- 1 day ago
New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) Thursday hailed the Delhi High Court judgment that decriminalises gay sex, saying it would help reach out to the community and prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. "It is a positive judgment. Decriminalising this high-risk group has made our job easier as we will be able to reach them. This will help the public health system," K. Sujatha Rao, NACO director general and additional secretary in the health ministry, told IANS. ...

Source: www.queerty.com --- 1 day ago
ON OUR GAYDAR — News, notes, clicks, and quips from around the web. • A speech from Housing Works chief Charles King that criticized President Obama on his inaction on AIDS policy led a few people to walk out of the room. • A decent primer on the Olson-Boies Prop 8 case thus far. • Eighteen-year-old British man [...] ...

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YAKIMA, Wash. -- Children’s Village has been awarded a $166,000 grant from the Washington Dental Service Foundation to expand its dental clinic for children with special health needs. ...

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Two months after a positive drug test for methamphetamines, Jeremy Mayfield is getting ready to return to NASCAR. ...

Source: thecalifornian.com --- 2 days ago
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Source: science.slashdot.org --- 1 day ago
An anonymous reader writes "An HIV/AIDS vaccine developed in Ontario has applied for Phase 1 human trials. Safety and immunogenicity studies of the vaccine, dubbed SAV001-H, have already been completed on animals. Phase 1 human trials will check the safety of the vaccine on HIV positive volunteers. Phase 2 will then test immunogenicity." Read more of this story at Slashdot. ...

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Courthouse Square in downtown Santa Rosa, on Mendocino Ave between 3rd and 4th street. Across the street, but not in association with, Santa Rosa's Wednesday Night Downtown Market. Public transit accessible from 2nd street transit mall. From the Central Bay Area take Golden Gate Transits 80 or 101 bus line to Santa Rosa. Parking in parking garage and is free if one leaves after 7pm - regardless of arrival time. ...