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The Olympic showcase sport of athletics finally gets underway on Friday - with the 100 metres dash and 110m hurdles the most anticipated events.
World record holder Usain Bolt (9.72 seconds), former record holder Asafa Powell (9.74) and world champion Tyson Gay (9.77) form a formidable trio set to battle for gold on Saturday in what...
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The number of same-sex couples in Germany has nearly doubled in a decade to 68,000, according to census data from federal statisticians in Wiesbaden on Tuesday.
The 2007 tally of homosexual people living permanently together marked an increase of 30,000 from 11 years earlier.
The data was gathered in a micro-census, an annual...
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Liberals in the worldwide Anglican Church can take comfort from views expressed eight years ago on the vexed issue of homosexuality by Rowan Williams, the current Archbishop of Canterbury, the London Times said Thursday.
In correspondence seen by the Times, Williams expressed the belief that gay sexual relationships can "reflect...
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 A Health Department survey of 452 New York City gay men shows Black, Hispanic and Asian men are less likely to disclose their sexual orientation to their physicians than white men, it was announced on Wednesday. The study revealed that 39 percent of homosexuals didn’t discuss with their doctors about their sexuality. An estimated 60% of...
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Religion and sexuality make
strange bedfellows. No society has ever existed without them, but when
it comes to HIV and AIDS, the two social constructs coexist
uncomfortably. Religion often acts as a barrier to HIV
prevention work, AIDS activists, public health experts and sociologists
attending the XVII International AIDS...
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 The Michigan Supreme Court decreed Wednesday, May 7, that the 2004 court decision against gay marriage obstructs governments and universities in Michigan offering health insurance to gay workers’ partners.
The 5-2 rule hinders about 20 universities, community colleges, school districts and governments in Michigan, which used to...
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 People Infected with HIV in New York City are about three times more than in any other part of the nation. The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene released an estimated statistic on Wednesday through which they revealed that 72 of every 100,000 New Yorkers contracted HIV in 2006.The national rate is only 23 per 100,000...
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 Opponents of same-sex marriage seem to have taken a lead in campaign funding on a California referendum, according to filings from groups on both sides of the matter.Advocates of Proposition 8, which would ban same-sex marriage, raised an estimated $3.7 million from Jan. 1 through June 30, by comparison with gay-rights advocates who went...
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President George W. Bush was given a special treatment by Pope Benedict XVI. The
US President had the
opportunity to take a walk along with the pope through the Vatican
gardens, the place where popes pray privately. The Guardian.co.uk reports hat
this was the first time for a head of a state to meet the pope outside of...
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 Citizens Against Government Waste released the Congressional
Pig Book for 2008, containing reports of the most undesirable examples of politicians who spend money in what
they call wasteful spending.
U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu is portrayed as an important member
of Congress to sign her name to earmark spending for Louisiana special...
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 Louisiana police is on the lookout for three suspects wanted
for the death of two doctoral students at Louisiana State University in Baton
Rouge. The victims were of Indian nationality and were killed late Thursday at
an off-campus apartment. One of them was tied up with a computer cable.
Two graduate students were found shot to...
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The murders of two graduate students reportedly from India were being
investigated by police Friday after the victims' bodies were found at
their residence in New Orleans, Louisiana State University said.
The victims were identified as Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma and Kiran Kumar Allam, both male PhD students at the university, the...
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 Researches show that circumcision really protects men from HIV. This kind of surgery cuts a man’s chances to get HIV from a woman through sexual contact by up to 60%. Still, a new U.S analysis has tracked down 53,567 men who have sex with other men. The researchers concluded that there were no significantly lower HIV rates among those...
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A decades-old paraffin wax-encased block of tissue has added a curious chapter to the history of HIV, suggesting the virus that causes AIDS has been infecting people for at least 100 years.
The most pervasive and virulent global strain of HIV began spreading among human beings between 1884 and 1924, new research published Thursday in...
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 It seems that the cases of HIV in New York have been poorly reported since 6,200 more people were found infected with the virus. Health officials in Nassau and Suffolk couldn’t tell whether there were any changes in Long Island’s HIV’s statistics. Still, experts said that the people infected with HIV will face economy problems.The Center...
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 According to federal health officials, HIV infects about 40 percent more people in the United States than the government has previously estimated.A recent study conducted by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that about 56,300 people in the U.S. are infected annually with AIDS virus compared to the approximately 40,000...
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 Just one day before National HIV Testing Day (set
on 27 June), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reached
the conclusion that the rate of HIV infection is progressively rising among
“men who have sex with men” (also called MSM). Public health specialists agreed
to use this term (men who have sex with men) due to...
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 Merck also known as
Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the USA
and Canada,
one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, has abandoned trials
on an HIV vaccine that was regarded as one of the most promising in the fight
against Aids.
The decision came after scientist discovered that the drug
was in fact...
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Senator Barack Obama of Illinois found a way to reduce criticism
coming from organizations representing gay rights, or at least he attempted to.
The conflict sparked when a gospel singer that is known for
his anti-gay attitude was announced to be delivering a concert on Sunday in Columbia, S.C.
The gospel singer Donnie...
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 A new tell-all book about late Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith claims the last two men she was publicly involved with, Larry Birkhead, the father of her baby girl, and former lawyer and partner, Howard K. Stern were in fact secret gay lovers, and that’s how Birkhead won the paternity lawsuit. Written by MSNBC’s Rita Cosby, the book...
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 Adam Sandler’s latest movie, "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry," charmed $34.8 million from moviegoers in its first weekend in theaters overtaking the fifth "Harry Potter” film which slipped on the second spot, according to studio estimates on Sunday.According to reports, Sandler’s previous movies "Anger...
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Homophobia and disappointments in the search
for a vaccine were expected to dominate the 17th International AIDS
Conference as an estimated 25,000 scientists, politicians, physicians
and activists gathered in Mexico City. UN Secretary
General Ban Ki-moon told the conference on its opening day Sunday that
discrimination...
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 According to two new U.S. studies of gay and bisexual men
who know they are infected with HIV, amore than one-third have recently had
unprotected intercourse.
In many cases, these men are engaging in unprotected sex
with other HIV-infected men -- a practice called "serosorting," where
partners with a similar,...
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 The FDA continues to stand by its 1983 policy to refuse blood donations from “men who have had sex with men since 1977,” saying that this would increase the risk of spreading HIV, hepatitis B and other infections transmittable through transfusion.
In an attempt to reduce the spread of HIV through blood donations, the Food...
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