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The Aids crisis was set to end by 2030 – now Trump’s cuts will mean 4 million more deaths

Donald Trump’s slashing of foreign aid has derailed the projected end of the Aids pandemic and could lead to four million extra deaths by 2030, The Independent can reveal. New figures show the number ...
Yahoo

Forty years ago, AIDS was a death sentence. Not today, but HIV is still a health threat

It’s not shocking or even surprising that HIV and AIDS are on the rise in today’s world. The dreaded disease of the 1980s and 1990s is now affecting young people who were not even born when HIV first ...
The Washington Post

Uganda's AIDS Decline Attributed to Deaths

BOSTON, Feb. 23 -- Abstinence and sexual fidelity have played virtually no role in the much-heralded decline of AIDS rates in the most closely studied region of Uganda, two researchers told a ...
Time

With HIV/AIDS Deaths on Rise, China Struggles to Improve Outreach

It’s hard to fight an epidemic when no one wants to talk about the cause. In China, a country whose last decade has been defined by economic growth and social opening, silence still enshrouds many ...
Reuters

Number of AIDS deaths among young Asians doubles over past decade: U.N.

BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The estimated number of adolescents dying of AIDS in the Asia Pacific region has more than doubled since 2005, experts said on Monday, warning of a "hidden ...
Al-Monitor

No longer a death sentence: Four decades of living with HIV

The windows of Milan's Pirelli tower are illuminated to commemorate World AIDS Day in December 2017 — Marco BERTORELLO Forty years after the discovery of HIV, AFP looks at how far we have come in ...
JSTOR Daily

Deaths from smoking and from HIV/AIDS among gay and bisexual men in California, 2005–2050

Introduction Deaths from HIV/AIDS have long been of concern to the gay community, but less attention has focused on smoking-attributable deaths despite the relatively high smoking rates among gay and ...
Reuters

U.N. report shows world AIDS deaths edging down

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of people killed by AIDS worldwide edged down for a second straight year in 2007 after rising for more than two decades, amid intensified global efforts to fight the ...
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Gavin Newsom criticised for praising Ronald Reagan – who ‘facilitated’ thousands of AIDS deaths

California governor Gavin Newsom is being criticised for sharing a quote by former Republican president Ronald Reagan, whose ...

‘I thought HIV was a death sentence – but 43 years later I’m still here’

In October 1982, Jonathan Blake was told he would be dead in three months. He had just been diagnosed with HIV, and was one ...
Commercial Appeal

Forty years ago, AIDS was a death sentence. Not today, but HIV is still a health threat

Lynn Norment, a columnist for The Commercial Appeal, is a former editor for Ebony Magazine. It’s not shocking or even surprising that HIV and AIDS are on the rise in today’s world. The dreaded disease ...