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		<title>South Africa Unleashes Plan to Slow AIDS Crisis &#8211; NYTimes.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 20:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa Redoubles Efforts Against AIDSBy CELIA W. DUGGERSOVANE, South Africa — South Africa, trying to overcome years of denial and delay in confronting its monumental AIDS crisis, is now in the midst of a feverish buildup of testing, treatment and prevention that United Nations officials say is the largest and fastest expansion of AIDS [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1900&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speak out against Uganda&#8217;s Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 on Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Chicago speaks out against Uganda&#8217;s Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=195596417907&#38;v=info): The Ugandan Parliament has tabled a bill called the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009, and will be voting on it in the near future. A wide cross-section of people, including people from many faiths, sexual identities, and nations are opposing this bill because it criminalizes consenting behavior between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1896&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking out against Uganda&#8217;s Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is truly appalling.  According to TIME magazine&#8217;s Zoe Alsop, an exceptionally harsh &#8220;anti-homosexuality bill&#8221; is being proposed in the African nation of Uganda, with frightening consequences. The medic shifted a battered fedora over his eyes. &#8220;I am the gay doctor,&#8221; the physician whispered to me, making sure nobody around heard. [...] In a matter [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1893&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prayers for World AIDS Day (part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here for Part 1, with links to various liturgies and other resources. Almighty and most merciful God, we remember before you all poor and neglected persons whom it would be easy for us to forget: the homeless and the destitute, the old and the sick, and all who have none to care for them.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1890&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prayers for World AIDS Day (part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh God, you are the creator of all. Today we your creatures prostrate ourselves before you in supplication. We have no strength. You who have created us have all power. We bring you our seed and all our implements, that you may bless them and bless us also, so that we may make good use [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1884&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Changing advice on HIV treatment</title>
		<link>http://faithandaids.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/changing-advice-on-hiv-treatment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to BBC News: The World Health Organization is changing its advice on HIV drugs, asking that they be given sooner and to breastfeeding mothers with the virus.  Experts say the advice is based on the most up-to-date information available and will cut infection rates and save lives.  But it will mean many more people needing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1882&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Progress to universal access: maps from UNAIDS</title>
		<link>http://faithandaids.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/progress-to-universal-access-maps-from-unaids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UNAIDS has produced a very cool set of interactive maps that showcase various AIDS-related trends and statistics around the world, focusing on progress to universal access.  The image below is just one of the many fascinating displays.  Find more here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1874&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UNAIDS reports new HIV infections down by 17% over 8 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eight-year trend shows new HIV infections down by 17%—most progress seen in sub-Saharan Africa Geneva / Shanghai, 24 November 2009 – According to new data in the 2009 AIDS epidemic update, new HIV infections have been reduced by 17% over the past eight years. Since 2001, when the United Nations Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1866&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Universal Access: Prevention, Treatment, Care</title>
		<link>http://faithandaids.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/hiworld-aids-day-2009-universal-access/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The non-profit organization Avert has put out a short but very focused and thought-provoking video on the World AIDS Day 2009 theme: Universal Access.  I love how this presentation deals with the idea of &#8220;universal access.&#8221;  That&#8217;s a very common phrase in AIDS advocacy circles, and is probably most often used with regard to treatment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1861&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ONE video</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short, catchy video from the ONE Campaign.  It&#8217;s geared especially for college students, but pretty much applicable to everyone.  The video stars a lot of very popular Hollywood types.  (I am just out of the loop enough to recognize only one or two of them&#8230;I suddenly feel old.)  You can find out more about it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1859&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Test your AIDS knowledge</title>
		<link>http://faithandaids.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/test-your-aids-knowledge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Can you name the countries with the highest adult HIV/AIDS infection rates?&#8220; Just came across this game/exercise on the ridiculously addictive trivia game site, sporcle.com.  It&#8217;s a good test, and actually very challenging (I was kind of chagrined to see how many I missed).  Check it out.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1856&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on (campus) advocacy, part 2</title>
		<link>http://faithandaids.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/thoughts-on-campus-advocacy-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a pretty slick video promoting World Vision&#8216;s new (and curiously-punctuated) campus organization, ACT:S.    ACT:S is a successor to, and a sort of re-vision of, Acting on AIDS, a WV-driven AIDS advocacy network for Christian colleges.  It&#8217;s also interesting to note that ACT:S is putting a lot of emphasis on &#8220;creative activism&#8221; and political advocacy.  While [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1848&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on (campus) advocacy, part 1</title>
		<link>http://faithandaids.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/thoughts-on-campus-advocacy-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a pretty slick video promoting World Vision&#8216;s new (and curiously-punctuated) campus organization, ACT:S.    ACT:S is a successor to, and a sort of re-vision of, Acting on AIDS, a WV-driven AIDS advocacy network for Christian colleges.  World Vision has made an interesting choice in shifting away from a more specific AIDS-oriented program to a more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1847&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;First Person: Living with HIV&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/8015716.stm This is from a while back (April 2009) but I just watched it, and it&#8217;s definitely worth a look.  BBC World News America created this short video featuring prominent, long-time AIDS activist Eric Sawyer for its &#8220;First Person&#8221; series.  This is a very moving clip, in which Sawyer speaks emotionally about the havoc HIV [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1845&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Center for Global Development : Publications: Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In October the Center for Global Development released a publication discussing the importance &#8212; indeed, the centrality &#8212; of girls and young women in the overall trends and patterns of global health.  You can read about the report and download a PDF version at the link below. Improving the health of adolescent girls in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1843&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the world up to? Commitment to Development Index, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The results of the Commitment to Development Index are always interesting.  For 2009, Sweden came out on top as the rich country doing the most to aid poorer countries.  Denmark, the Netherlands, and Norway round out the top four.  The United States ranked 17th out of 22 countries in the ranking, behind Portugal and ahead [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1840&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women and Health</title>
		<link>http://faithandaids.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/women-and-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Health Organization recently released a report on women&#8217;s health around the world.  As the AP reports, In its first study of women’s health, the World Health Organization said yesterday that the AIDS virus is the leading cause of death and disease among women between the ages of 15 and 44. The WHO provides [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1838&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HIV epidemic in Russia</title>
		<link>http://faithandaids.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/hiv-epidemic-in-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the BBC, A top international HIV/Aids expert has told the BBC that the epidemic in Russia is now out of control.  Robin Gorna, head of the International Aids Society, urged Russia to do much more to prevent the spread of HIV among an estimated two million drug users.  Ms Gorna was speaking ahead [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1836&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AIDS Vaccine 2009 conference (Oct. 19-22)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From &#8220;Words of Welcome&#8220;:  We are acutely aware of the difficulties and obstacles which still remain in the path of HIV vaccine development. It is more evident than ever that a strong emphasis on basic research, within a creative and interdisciplinary context, is essential to find an effective vaccine to protect against HIV.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1834&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times op-ed discusses importance of vaccine research</title>
		<link>http://faithandaids.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/new-york-times-op-ed-discusses-importance-of-vaccine-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have Faith in an AIDS Vaccine By Seth Berkley Published: October 19, 2009 &#8220;A six-year experimental AIDS vaccine trial has been called into question in a way that is overblown and possibly destructive.&#8221;   The New York Times today published an interesting op-ed column from Seth Berkley, the president and CEO of International AIDS Vaccine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1828&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>World Food Day</title>
		<link>http://faithandaids.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/world-food-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Food and nutritional security are the foundations of a decent life, a sound education and, indeed, the achievement of all the Millennium Development Goals.  Over the past two years, volatile food prices, the economic crisis, climate change and conflict have led to a dramatic and unacceptable rise in the number of people who cannot rely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1823&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God, Us, and Climate Change: Blog Action Day 2009</title>
		<link>http://faithandaids.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/god-us-and-climate-change-blog-action-day-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It can be very easy to be radical, sacrificial or subversive for its own sake or to achieve a sense of self-righteousness.  But if we really believe that God calls us to love our neighbors and to be stewards of his creation, and if we really believe that the greedy exploitation of people and natural [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1821&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hope on my desktop</title>
		<link>http://faithandaids.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/hope-on-my-desktop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite websites is Smashing Magazine.  It&#8217;s an online magazine/blog for graphic designers and other people who are very, very good at doing really cool things on computers.  I am neither of these, but I still enjoy it. One of my favorite things about Smashing Magazine is that it releases monthly collections of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1809&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New report on global AIDS efforts</title>
		<link>http://faithandaids.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/new-report-on-global-aids-efforts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a press release from the World Health Organization.  You can find this text and further information here.  You can also look at coverage from the New York Times for additional details. News release &#124; 30 September 2009 More than four million HIV-positive people now receiving life-saving treatment Geneva / Paris &#8212; More than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1799&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comments on AIDS vaccine research</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Unexpected progress on HIV/AIDS vaccine</title>
		<link>http://faithandaids.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/unexpected-progress-on-hivaids-vaccine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#62;&#62; http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/health/research/25aids.html This week saw an unexepected success in HIV/AIDS research, with the announcement of the results of a vaccine-related study conducted in Thailand. Scientists said Thursday that a new AIDS vaccine, the first ever declared to protect a significant minority of humans against the disease, would be studied to answer two fundamental questions: why [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1775&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thailand fights HIV/AIDS</title>
		<link>http://faithandaids.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/thailand-fights-hivaids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#62;&#62; BBC NEWS &#124; Asia-Pacific &#124; Thailand&#8217;s long battle with HIV/Aids &#8220;It is no surprise that Thailand has held the largest ever trial of an HIV vaccine. The South East Asian country has long been at the forefront of the battle against HIV and Aids.&#8221; This is an interesting overview of anti-HIV/AIDS efforts in Thailand, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1773&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>18,000 a year&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://faithandaids.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/18000-a-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;that&#8217;s how many Americans die because of a lack of health insurance, according to the National Academy of Sciences.  &#62;&#62;http://www.iom.edu/CMS/3809/4660/17632.aspx)   The Body Count at Home By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Published: September 13, 2009 About as many people who were killed on 9/11 die every two months because of our failure to provide universal insurance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1770&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>International Literacy Day, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 8 is International Literacy Day!  So, why am I talking about this on a blog about HIV/AIDS?  Glad you asked.  Here&#8217;s a pretty good starting explanation, from UNESCO&#8217;s website: Literacy is a human right, a tool of personal empowerment and a means for social and human development. Educational opportunities depend on literacy. Literacy is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1760&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Books for Cameroon</title>
		<link>http://faithandaids.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/books-for-cameroon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow is International Literacy Day, and I&#8217;m pleased to be writing about this event alongside bloggers from around the world, which I know about thanks to the organizing power of Bloggers Unite.  Also thanks to the community at Bloggers Unite, I know about a very cool project being undertaken by a Peace Corps volunteer in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithandaids.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3811162&amp;post=1766&amp;subd=faithandaids&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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