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Michigan State Lawmakers Question Terrorism Charges for HIV-positive Man

By Todd Heywood, New Journalist Fellow

November 10, 2009 - 9:08am

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An HIV-positive Macomb County man is facing charges created under Michigan’s 2004 terrorism laws for biting another man in a neighborhood scuffle. That, HIV advocates, state lawmakers and legal experts say is “cowardly” and “nonsense” and increases ignorance and stigma surrounding the virus.

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(Video) "I Object!" Republicans Seek to Prevent Women Congressional Leaders from Speaking About Health Care

By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor

November 7, 2009 - 2:45pm

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In a childish effort to obstruct Congresswoman Lois Capps from speaking on the House floor on health reform, Congressman Tom Price (R-GA) repeatedly intoned "I object."


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Michigan Corrections Officials Push Change to Policies on HIV-Positive Prisoners

By Todd Heywood, New Journalist Fellow

November 5, 2009 - 6:00am

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A Michigan Department of Corrections official confirms that the department is seeking changes to a controversial policy barring HIV-positive prisoners from working in food service jobs.

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International AIDS Society Urges Strong/Swift Opposition to Proposed Anti-Homosexuality Legilsation In Uganda

By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor

October 23, 2009 - 12:24pm

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In a press release today, the International AIDS Society (IAS) urged Uganda’s political and public health leaders to oppose and reject the Anti-Homosexuality Bill presented last week in Uganda’s parliament.

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Religion and Stigma Fan HIV Epidemic in Malawi

By Ramona Vijeyarasa, RH Reality Check, Southeast Asia

October 14, 2009 - 6:00am

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Malawi has some of the harshest laws in all of Africa criminalizing homosexuality. Many religious groups actively support discrimination against gay, lesbian, and transgender persons and in turn are fanning the spread of HIV.

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Even at Rally to End AIDS, Stigma is Present

By Todd Heywood, New Journalist Fellow

October 11, 2009 - 11:02am

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"I ain't going to no rally for AIDS," he loudly opined. His friend empahticaly concurred.

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Women Need Rights, Not Rescue

By Yifat Susskind, MADRE

September 3, 2009 - 7:00am

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With a tagline like “Saving the World’s Women,” we knew to be suspicious of the recent New York Times Magazine cover story on global women’s rights. Reading on, our suspicions were confirmed.

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Human Rights: When Officials Get Serious About HIV Prevention, This is Where They’ll Start

By Catherine Hanssens, Center for HIV Law and Policy

August 31, 2009 - 7:00am

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Stigma, discrimination, poverty, homophobia, racism, sexism, all fuel the spread of HIV and hurt those living with it. These issues are routinely cited as critical to ending the epidemic but rarely addressed in policies and prevention strategies.

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Stoking Fire: Far Right Opposition to Hate Crimes Laws

By Eleanor Bader, RH Reality Check

August 11, 2009 - 7:00am

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Assurances that federal workplace anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people will exempt religious bodies from oversight should mollify conservatives, but they don't.

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Supreme Court Reverses Ricci Decision; Finds White Firefighters Unfairly Denied Promotion

By Emily Douglas

June 29, 2009 - 9:08am

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The Supreme Court has reversed the Second Circuit ruling in Ricci vs. DeStefano, the case in which white firefighters have argued that they had been discriminated against when a promotional exam on which no African-American firefighters scored highly enough to be promoted was discarded.

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