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South Africa recalls 1.35 million defective condoms

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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 gets 32 years in HIV assault case

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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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Gender-based violence and HIV linked

Onome Akpogheneta
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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2) ESCALATING HIV/AIDS RATE – By 2002, it was increasingly clear that HIV/AIDS was a dominant health threat to African Americans, especially to growing numbers of black women. Throughout the 2000s, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) issued statistics revealing HIV infection rates trending highest among African Americans. According to the Minority Nurse Newsletter (Fall 2003), African Americans accounted for half of all new reported HIV infections in 2001. Black women specifically accounted for almost 64 percent of all new infections among women in 2001. In 2004, according to the CDC, HIV infection was the leading cause of death for black women, ages 25-34.High contraction rates through heterosexual interaction among African American women pointed to bisexuality among African American men, helping fuel the down-low hysteria of seemingly “straight” African American men sleeping with both men and women. J.L. King’s 2004 memoir On the Down Low addressed this issue, even earning the author an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Organizations such as the L.A.-based Black AIDS Institute and The Balm in Gilead, which black churches, as well as books like Not in My Family, featuring HIV/AIDS-related essays from a cross-section of black America, and African American radio leaders like Radio One continue to raise awareness about the devastation of HIV/AIDS in the African American community.

Blacks targeted? Top AIDS conspiracy theories

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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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Remembering black celebs who died of AIDS

Alexis Garrett Stodghill
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 knowingly exposed partners to HIV

Dr. Terrance McGill
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'

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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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5 myths that must go in war against HIV-AIDS

Candace Y.A. Montague
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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Boarding school turns away boy with HIV

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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

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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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