December 2011
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Who Was Harvey Milk and why is he important? →
Hello err’body. I’m doing Harvey Milk for one of the people who inspire me the most, and found this article on him. I thought it was fairly well written (sparing the lack of paragraphing). Thought you guys may want to give it a read as well!
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Lingering stigma helps AIDS epidemic ravage US...
The American South has been quietly ravaged by HIV/Aids, even as the rest of the US has made great advances in treatment and prevention. As Michael Maher reports, the conservative region’s reluctance to speak publicly about the epidemic has hampered its ability to fight it.
About this time every year, the Reverend Patricia Starr runs a Christmas drive for HIV-positive children in the...
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Wiener Library relocates Nazi archive to new...
The world’s oldest Holocaust museum has moved to a new home in London’s Russell Square. As well as archiving documents from Jewish victims of repression, the museum also holds chilling examples of how the Nazis used games and books to indoctrinate Germany’s youth with anti-Semitic values.
Karen, the pretty young woman in the photograph, looks excited, as one might when about...
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HIV funding cut as science brings 'decisive...
This year’s World Aids Day comes at what many scientists and campaigners agree is a decisive moment in the 30-year history of the epidemic.
Although there is still no vaccine against HIV, key trials in the past year have confirmed that the combination drug treatment makes people with HIV less infectious - and more men in Africa are being circumcised, to help prevent the virus being...