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9/24/09: Marilynn Marchione, Associated Press

In a first, an AIDS vaccine shows some success

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Scientists and government leaders have already started mapping out how to try to improve the world's first successful AIDS vaccine, which protected one in three people from getting HIV in a large study in Thailand...

"We need to take a deep breath and look at all the available evidence from this trial" before urging that this vaccine be used now, said Julie Davids, a spokeswoman for the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project, a New York-based prevention advocacy group.

 

9/23/09: Johnathan Briggs, Huffington Post

The Politics of AIDS and Health Care Reform

Two weeks after President Barack Obama delivered an impassioned address on health reform to the nation and a joint session of Congress, I sat down with David Ernesto Munar of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago and Julie Davids of the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP) to discuss how the Obama administration is approaching the fight against HIV/AIDS.

 

9/03/09: Jim Burress, WABE News (Public Broadcasting, Atlanta)

"Preliminary" CDC Report Says Gay/Bisexual Men 50-times More Likely to be HIV-Positive

ATLANTA, GA (WABE) - Before doctors knew what HIV was, they referred to the virus as "Gay Cancer" because it overwhelmingly affected gay men.

More than 25 years later, AIDS activists say the CDC's finding that gay and bisexual men are 50 times more likely to contract the virus is the first time the government has given a concrete view of HIV's effect on that population.

"The CDC has never been willing to issue rates before. So we would only have absolute numbers, and whether these numbers are going up or down."

Walt Senterfitt is an epidemiologist and board chair of CHAMP, the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project.

"Starting with the facts and the truth, and then digging down into why these particular facts might be the case, is the best way to generate good public policy."

The CDC declined to be interviewed for this story, saying the statistics are preliminary.