Sabrina Heard, HIV-Positive Community Health Worker, Reveals What HIV …
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In its now 31-year history, HIV has never faced the kind of threats to its existence as it has in 2012. From groundbreaking antiretroviral drugs to an at-home screening test, HIV prevention, treatment and eradication are within closer reach than ever …
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Health officials warn of rapidly developing HIV epidemic in Greek capital …
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By Associated Press,November 30, 2012. ATHENS, Greece — Athens is seeing an alarming increase in new HIV infections, particularly among intravenous drug users, health officials warned Friday, as Greece struggles through a protracted financial crisis …
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Study shows young adults with addiction benefit from active 12 step group …
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(November 8, 2012) – Young adults undergoing addiction treatment benefit from regular participation in Twelve Step-based self-help groups after discharge, according to a naturalistic study published electronically and in the journal Drug and Alcohol …
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'Lazarus drug' for AIDS brings hope to South Africa
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In the early 90s when South Africa's Themba Lethu clinic could only treat HIV/AIDS patients for opportunistic diseases, many would come in on wheelchairs and keep coming to the health center until they died. Two decades later the … Such stories of …
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