News 2012
Reversal On Health Mandate Came Late For Gingrich And Romney

Opposition to the administration’s overhaul of health care has almost become an article of faith with every Republican running for president.
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Pariah Proves There’s an Audience—and a Hunger—for Real Stories

There’s a scene in Dee Rees’s debut feature film “Pariah” to which almost anyone who’s survived an awkward adolescence can relate. Alike, the film’s 17-year-old protagonist, sits in her high school’s hallway within earshot of a group of pretty, popular girls talking about the things that pretty, popular girls tend to talk about: who kicked it with whom at what party.
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e-HAP FYI

CDC is now into its third year of the Act Against AIDS (AAA) campaign, and we want to take this opportunity to share with you some of the highlights of the first 2 years and the many exciting activities that are underway.
Apply to Attend the Microbicides Trials Network with the Black Treatment Advocates Network!

In a continued effort to improve access to information regarding advances in prevention and treatment, the Black AIDS Institute will be taking a delegation of 2-4 BTAN members to this year’s Microbicide Trials Network annual meeting being held February 19th – February 23rd in Maryland.
Ask the Doctor: What Is HIV-Related Anal Cancer?

Every month HIV specialist Theresa Mack, M.D., M.P.H.--an associate medical director at St Luke's Medical Group in Harlem, N.Y.--will answer your most pressing HIV/AIDS questions.
The human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection. At some point at least 50 percent of sexually active adults will get one of HPV's 40-odd strains, which can infect men and women, usually in the genital region but also in the throat.