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Video: Obama’s New Aids Initiative
July 28th, 2010
A couple of weeks ago President Obama announced a new initiative to address the challenges in fighting the still ongoing Aids epidemic.
The mkcreativeblog characterized it as such:
President Barack Obama shifted emphasis from his predecessor on yet another issue, as he announced the administration’s launch of the “Natinal HIV/AIDS Community Discussions” to be hosted by the White House Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP). “HIV remains an serious challenge to the American people and I am committed to developing an effective National HIV/AIDS Strategy,” said President Obama.
Obama’s plan seeks to specify and focus in particular on groups that are most vulnerable, or that have experienced the most dramatic rises in new HIV cases, such as gay men and black women. This is also a departure from Bush, where in his neo-con ideology these gender, race and sexual preference differences either don’t exist, or don’t have an effect on addressing public health; or more likely, the practioners of this ideology just don’t care. It’s reverse racism or something to acknowledge scientific fact and place emphasis wehre it’s needed most, and hence impolitic for neo-cons.
See video of Obama’s announcemnt:
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This is great! There is a story out of Was. DC where woman with HIV is a epidimic that they got funding to hand out woman condoms right on the street for free.
I was also told by a friend of mine that works for HIV awareness and has HIV that they have found a cure out of Germany that should be ready in about 5 years but I can’t find anything on this. Has anyone heard anything about this?
Somebody claims to have found a cure every other year for the last 15 years or so.
The only thing I’ve heard of lately is that they’ve begin to hone a possible vaccine from those who are naturally HIV resitent: http://www.aolnews.com/health/article/discovery-helps-us-researchers-close-in-on-hiv-vaccine/19547029
Huff Post has a listing of recent HIV articles here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/hivaids
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