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Community Health Center Tries to Reach Young, Gay Latinos with HIV Message

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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is funding a new way to reach young, gay Latinos who are at risk of contracting HIV. Since 2006 they have given money to a community health center in Washington, D.C., to set up Mpoderate, a name that roughly translates into empower yourself.

June 6, 2011 - 10:36am

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is funding a new way to reach young, gay Latinos who are at risk of contracting HIV. Since 2006 they have given money to a community health center in Washington, D.C., to set up Mpoderate, a name that roughly translates into empower yourself.

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"Got STD Testing?:" Meeting the STD and HIV Testing Needs of Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM)

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by Kenneth Katz

April 11, 2011 - 8:23am (Print)

It’s rare that my MSM patients know which STDs they ought to be screened for, and how often. Men who have sex with men don’t get screened often enough for diseases like syphilis, gonorrhea, and HIV.

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The HIV Epidemic Among Blacks: Social Services Cannot be Cut

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by Alison Yager, HIV Law Project

February 7, 2011 - 5:05pm (Print)

Black Americans are at the intersection of high rates of HIV and high rates of poverty.  As a result, cuts to services are acutely felt by Black Americans living with HIV/AIDS.

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Morning Roundup: National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

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by Beth Saunders, RH Reality Check

February 7, 2011 - 11:32am (Print)

Today is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, is the GOP's anti-women, anti-abortion plan backfiring, sex education is needed throughout life, and a high school sets up HIV testing as a class project.

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Morning Roundup: Santorum, Alaska Parental Notification, Sporty HIV-Testing

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by Beth Saunders, RH Reality Check

December 13, 2010 - 10:47am (Print)

Rick Santorum's presidential bid; estrogen-tainted water; more on the Pope and condoms; Alaska's parental notification law; HIV-testing at sporting events; and the Governor of Guam vetoes an anti-choice bill that's not anti-choice enough.

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Roundup: Taking Care of Business Can Lead to Positive Social Change

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by Beth Saunders, RH Reality Check

October 6, 2010 - 9:31am (Print)

Businesses are asked to help protect women around the world from violence, and workers believe their employers should offer equal benefits to same-sex partners. Plus, HIV tests at the DMV.

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A Dangerous Precedent: Using Anti-Terrorism Laws to Prosecute HIV Transmission

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by Positive Women's Network

December 2, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

The misuse of bio-terrorism laws to prosecute an HIV positive man is but one example of how efforts to criminalize HIV stigmatize individuals and simultaneously threaten public health.
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Michigan's HIV Disclosure Law: Overly Broad and Open to Abuse

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by Todd Heywood, New Journalist Fellow

May 4, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)

Michigan's law criminalizing HIV transmission can be used vindictively against populations already stigmatized, say legal experts.
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Colorado Legislator: HIV Testing for Pregnant Moms Rewards "Sexual Promiscuity"

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by Ernest Luning, New Journalist Fellow

February 25, 2009 - 4:25pm (Print)

Colorado Democrats were outraged Wednesday morning when Republican state Sen. Dave Schultheis said he planned to vote against a bill to require HIV tests for pregnant women because the disease "stems from sexual promiscuity."
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Resisting the Sex Panic: Sex Workers Struggle for Evidence-Based Regulation in Nevada

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by Melissa Gira Grant, Third Wave

February 10, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)

In rural Nevada, the possible expansion of the brothel industry has sex workers hoping to be given a central role in governing their own industry, rather than being seen as at-risk women who require protection from themselves.
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