Indianapolis: HIV – AIDS and Poverty
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People With Aids on the Brink of Foreclosure Will Receive Federal Housing Grant
One can?t help but feel for people who lost their homes to foreclosure. The past months have left many without houses, and it?s still taking away other people?s homes.
It?s even worse to see sick people who, despite their condition, are forced out of their residences. Losing their homes would make it more [...]
Are AIDS and Cancer Related? – Detroit
Is cancer associated with HIV or AIDS? Why is it every time a person has AIDS also has cancer? These are just some of the questions raised by many regarding AIDS.
Scarlet letter: a Christian with AIDS
The following is an actual letter I sent to a close Christian
friend in 1999, immediately after being diagnosed with HIV. I
hesitated going public with this now, not wanting to throw fuel
on the fire of those who would cruelly abuse this information
against me in a vain attempt to discredit what I say and write
on many [...]
Honduras Girl Face of Aids Bravely
On 3th, Aug, the 17th World AIDS Conference was opening in Mexico City. In the general assembly opening session, the 12-year-old Honduran girls Ka Lunda Nawei on behalf of 33 million worldwide infected with HIV and delivered a speech raises the aspirations of all infected persons:”We refuse to tears, we will not give up!”
As [...]
Aids: the First 10,000 American Cases (1981-1988)
The XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City from August 3 through 8 has, as its stated goal, to conduct a forum that ?promotes scientific excellence and inquiry, encourages individual and collective action and dialogues, and fosters accountability. ? The conference?s impressive agenda is testimony to how far we have come in dealing with the [...]
Projects Abroad Volunteers in Senegal Join Aids Awareness Day March
The beginning of December saw Projects Abroad Senegal help to coordinate an AIDS awareness day with our local partner AFE in the Pikine district of St. Louis.
On Friday 1st December, otherwise known as global AIDS Awareness Day, Projects Abroad staff and volunteers took to the streets of Pikine with local partner Action Femmes [...]
Tips to Avoid Aids
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a condition that gradually destroys the body’s immune defense system and makes the body vulnerable to opportunistic diseases. It is caused by infection with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). After HIV invades the body, it lives and multiplies in the white blood cells, which are the cells that [...]
How to Fight Aids
As I write this article, there is no cure for AIDS yet. It is not quite easy to find cure for one. The battle against Aids is really an unending war. Will man ever win this war? Although there are many anti retroviral drugs that try to delay the progression of the [...]