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AGING WITH HIV/AIDS

SEPTEMBER 18 IS NATIONAL HIV/AIDS AND AGING AWARENESS DAY GROWING OLDER WITH HIV At the start of the epidemic more than 30 years ago, people who were diagnosed with HIV/AIDS could expect to live only 1-2 years after that diagnosis. This meant that the issues of aging were not a major focus for people with HIV disease. But today, thanks to improvements in the effectiveness antiretroviral therapy (ART), people with HIV who are diagnosed early in their infection, and who get and stay on ART can keep the virus suppressed and live as long as their HIV-negative peers. For this...

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Sex education: Arming the youth with information

Sex education: Arming the youth with information MANILA, Philippines - Some lawmakers score what they call attempts to blur the issue of incorporating sex education into the elementary and high school curricula. Just like the press conference at the Catholic Bishop's Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Monday that came complete with graphic comics illustration, Iloilo Representative Janette Garin, author of the Reproductive Health Care Act, says the filing of a class suit against the education departments' plan to teach sex education is a "publicity stunt". "The problem is they misinform people," Garin laments. "They twist the information by telling...

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Living with HIV: the new normal

In today's world, testing positive for HIV no longer equates to a death sentence. But after the diagnoses, how does one go on living? We asked Sylvia Brewer that very question. As part of GlobalPost's global coverage of World AIDS Day, we sat down with Brewer to find out what it means to be positive in 2012.

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