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The Face of AIDS: Overwhelmingly Black and Female

More than two decades after HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, first began killing gay White men…

September 20, 2006

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Africa: The Epicenter of the AIDS Pandemic

A continent away, in AIDS-ravaged Africa, an effort similar to that in the United States is underway to mobilize…

September 20, 2006

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AIDS Activist Mobilizes Black Community to Combat the Disease

TORONTO Phill Wilson, founder and executive director of the Los Angeles-based Black AIDS Institute, is enlisting a group of heavy-hitting Black entertainers, civil rights, media, religious, civic, political, community leaders and organizations to help release the deadly grip HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has on more than half of Blacks in America.

August 28, 2006

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Research Roundup: Blacks and Cancer, HIV and Business

Younger Black women who get breast cancer are far more likely than their White peers to have a particularly aggressive and lethal form of the disease; HIV infection is significantly more common among non-Hispanic Blacks than among any other young adult racial or ethnic group in the US; African-Americans are twice as likely as White Americans to try to start a business.

June 7, 2006

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Research Round-Up: HIV Prevention Among Minorities, Benefits of Ethnically Diverse Schools

HIV prevention: People wanting information about HIV prevention feel more comfortable getting it from people who look like them. Education diversity: Middle school students are more likely to feel safer, less bullied and less lonely in ethnically diverse schools.

May 22, 2006

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Univ. of South Carolina Earns ‘Very High’ Research Designation

The University of South Carolina continues to raise its academic profile with a $6 million federal grant for HIV prevention, and a designation by a leading education…

March 13, 2006

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HIV Prevention Programs in U.S. Target Black Audiences

The sixth annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness and Information Day brought university students to Roosevelt University’s auditorium in downtown Chicago last week to hear some music…

February 9, 2006

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First Lady Highlights Education, AIDS in West Africa

In a muggy college auditorium, first lady Laura Bush this week announced a U.S.-backed program to provide 15 million textbooks…

January 18, 2006

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Relation Between Incarceration and Race Disparities In U.S. HIV Rates Explored In Study

There may be a relationship between incarceration and race disparities in American HIV rates…

January 11, 2006

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New Web Site Provides Resources on HIV Education and Prevention

The Association of American Colleges and Universities’ Program for Health and Higher Education (PHHE)…

December 14, 2005

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University of South Carolina, Claflin University

Claflin University and the University of South Carolina will share a $7.5 million federal grant to eliminate…

December 14, 2005

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Relation Between Incarceration and Race Disparities in U.S. HIV Rates Explored

There may be a relationship between incarceration and race disparities in American HIV rates…

December 12, 2005