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AIDS top source of death from infectious disease in China in 2012 Six recent deaths in the eastern China area around Shanghai in connection with H7N9 bird flu are... 10 April
AIDS vaccine hunt gains clues Click to view: AIDS vaccine researchers say they have some new clues to help focus their search... 13 September
Rabbi Julia Appel welcomes Ga’ava leaders AIDS victims commemorated at temple ceremony World AIDS Day was commemorated at Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom, organized with Ga’ava, a Montreal... 15 December
UPDATE: Cancelled due to heavy rain AIDS vigil set for May 22 Canadian AIDS memorial quilt to be on display   Twenty-nine years ago in San Francisco, the... 22 May
AIDS Walk for Life video vying for award The 2011 Scotiabank AIDS Walk for Life video has been nominated for a Buzzie Award by the Charity... 24 January
AIDS' "Plague" Years - and the battle to remember them LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - David France has been a top investigative reporter for decades,... 6 February
AIDS-defining illnesses, especially TB, more frequent at high CD4 counts in Africa and Asia Rates of death and illness remained 'substantial' even at higher CD4 cell counts among people... 11 February
Optimism AIDS-Free Generation? Researchers show new optimism about dreaded disease  An AIDS-free generation: It seems an audacious goal, considering how the HIV epidemic still... 10 July
Access to combination HIV therapy has significantly improved Aids-related deaths 'down 21% from peak', says UNAids Aids-related deaths are at the lowest level since their 2005 peak, down 21%, figures from UNAids... 22 November
HIV test AIDS-related deaths falling in S. Africa: agency CAPE TOWN — One in ten South Africans is HIV positive but AIDS-related deaths are falling as ramped... 15 May
Danny Sotomayor, Darrell Gordon, Tim Miller and Carol Hayes at an ACT UP protest AIDS: Former Chicagoan Tim Miller looks back at ACT UP years "I still think that they should still be striving for [ a cure ] , or at least a vaccine," said... 21 July
AIDS: They call him Patient Zero Hailing from Lahore and working in the Gulf, this migrant worker was the first Pakistani to be... 4 March
AJ's Cafe 5th Anniversary AJ's Cafe is a social gathering for HIV Poz men to hang out. Join us on Friday August 3rd between... 21 June
Alberta Harm Reduction Conference The annual Alberta Harm Reduction Conference is one of a kind in Canada. The goal of the Conference... 21 April
Alberta's $2 million awareness campaign aimed at club-goers Attack launched against high syphilis rate Alberta has Canada's highest STD rates. After years of... 3 June
Andrew McPhail All my little Band-Aids When Hamilton-based artist Andrew McPhail began working on little sculptures made of Band-Aids, he... 8 September
Almost half of people in dark about spread of HIV, survey shows Almost half of people wrongly believe that HIV can be contracted by being bitten, spat at or... 19 January
American Red Cross American Red Cross fined millions for shoddy blood collection The American Red Cross was fined more than $9.6 million by the Food and Drug Administration this... 19 January
HIV and AIDS Fatigue Syndrome An emerging threat in the fight against HIV/AIDS Growing apathy regarding the epidemic may undermine previous efforts Since the first identification... 17 November
Glenn Thibeault lost his brother Roger to AIDS. An MP remembers a brother lost to AIDS NDP MP Glenn Thibeault wants Parliament to ensure people with HIV/AIDS 'live with dignity' Twenty... 6 December
Dr. Noel Buskard angered authorities, but was beloved as teacher, clinician An outspoken patient advocate Dr. Noel Buskard, who in 2001 won a special award for whistle blowing on poor practices in the... 21 July
Ilana Landsberg-Lewis, executive director of the Stephen-Lewis Foundation Annual conference doubles in size For the first time, Queen’s Health and Human Rights Conference offered free admittance to its... 6 October
Annual General Meeting of the Positive Living Society of BC   This year's Annual General Meeting of the Positive Living Society of British... 20 July
Another survey shows counter-intuitive impact of HIV criminalization  A new survey by the Sero Project found that among people with HIV, 25 percent say they... 2 August
Will Dampier Answers from the crowd Will Dampier had a hunch last year that someone outside academia could find a more accurate way to... 19 July