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...Action About the Day World AIDS Day is observed every year on December 1st. The World Health Organization established World AIDS Day in 1988. World AIDS Day provides governments, ... Before World AIDS Day, Obama Administration Scores D+ from Global AIDS Groups...
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Beltway Blips
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/us-lifts-hiv-aids-immigration-ban/
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As has been the tradition in the last couple of decades, December 1 marks World AIDS Day. But after so many decades of this pandemic living with us and after so many scientific trials, the question is: Are we winning the fight? Depending on where you
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AllAfrica.com
http://allafrica.com/stories/200912071721.html
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It seems inconceivable to me that it was on Dec. 1, 1991, 18 years ago, that my roommate and best friend John Barnes, the VNA of the North Shore's AIDS homecare coordinator, Tanny Martin, assorted members of the Cape Ann AIDS Task Force and I organized
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Gloucester Daily Times
http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_337212259.html
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A new study on HIV anti-retroviral regimens was released Dec. 1 and events were held to mark World AIDS Day. Meanwhile, advocates in New York and California expressed concern about budget cuts and tight funding for AIDS programs.
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Medical News Today
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~3/lGKmaRVhAm0/172839.php
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Those living with HIV/AIDS often lack access to reliable health care that could make the disease manageable and instead are relegated to society’s fringes, left to live out too much of their remaining time without needed care, artists said at the
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Bayside Times
http://www.yournabe.com/articles/2009/12/03/queens/queensgcgrqzu12032009.txt
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Marking World AIDS Day on Tuesday, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon "warned ... that new infections are outpacing the gains from treating people with the HIV virus" and that discrimination against HIV-positive people remains "widespread," the
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Medical News Today
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/172845.php
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Daily News Photo by CRISTIAN SIMESCU
VICARE executive director Sandra Phaire, left, and other participants place electric candles on the steps of the Eliza McBean Clock Tower in Frederiksted during a World AIDS Day vigil .
Virgin Islands residents
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Virgin Islands Daily News
http://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/index.pl/article_home?id=17641865
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Connor Swanson looks into the flame of his candle after its lighting it in honor of his mom's best friend, Doyle Wilkenson, who died from HIV/AIDS. In honor of its Paint The Town Red campaign and
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Juneau Empire
http://juneauempire.com/stories/120209/loc_531198080.shtml
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Yesterday, December 1, was World AIDS Day.
According to Google News: 9,218 news articles were published yesterday about World AIDS Day, while 34,163 news articles were published about Tiger Woods.
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The cost of the Afghanistan war to the U.S: $232,
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iBrattleboro
http://www.ibrattleboro.com/article.php/20091202105431781
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OBERLIN — The World AIDS Day service at Christ Episcopal Church Hall on Tuesday night was billed as a memorial service, but it was also a revival meeting.
Vince Morvatz of Akron wears a “War Sash” that includes a ribbon for each of the 115 people he
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Elyria Chronicle-Telegram
http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2009/12/02/continuing-the-fight-remembering-those-lost-on-world-aids-day-2009/
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With the setting sun casting a golden sheen on the waters below, close to 30 people Tuesday afternoon observed World AIDS Day by crossing the Walkway Over the Hudson.
Sponsored by Planned Parenthood of the Mid-Hudson Valley, the walk over the former
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The Poughkeepsie Journal
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20091202/NEWS01/912020332/1006/RSS01
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Deseret News
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705348525/Utahns-mark-World-AIDS-Day-in-SL.html?linkTrack=rss-30
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A diagnosis of HIV or AIDS is no longer the automatic death sentence it once was, but people are still catching and spreading the disease at an alarming rate, health officials say.
That's why World AIDS Day is still such a critical event, according to
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The Star-Gazette
http://www.stargazette.com/article/20091201/NEWS01/912010367/1113/
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Locally in your neighborhood, you can fight HIV/AIDS by local urban farming/produce gardening among city streets or in rural areas. Inexpensive-to-build solar cooking stoves complement local produce farming by using the sun instead of
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GroundReport
http://www.groundreport.com/Health_and_Science/What-you-can-do-for-your-country-regarding-sustain_1
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If you noticed an abnormal amount of red in your Twitter feed today, it's because much of the Twitterverse and Twitter-Wood population was observing World AIDS Day. Russell Brand, Paris Hilton, Virginia Madsen and Ashton Kutcher were among those
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MTV.com
http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2009/12/01/world-aids-day-pudgy-new-moon-werewolves-and-2012-in-todays-twitter-wood/
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Dignitaries, political leaders, and even sports and films stars,, united on Tuesday for the global commemoration of World Aids Day.
The annual event was recognised worldwide under the theme "Universal Access and Human Rights." In America, a number of
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AllAfrica.com
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PORTLAND, Maine -- Mainers commemorated World AIDS Day on Tuesday to recognize 1,300 residents who live with AIDS.
Community activists, health officials and the governor converged in Augusta, where panels from the National AIDS Quilt and 1,300
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WMTW Portland
http://www.wmtw.com/health/21777442/detail.html
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CHICAGO (CBS) ―
Tuesday is World AIDS Day, a time to promote understanding of HIV/AIDS, and the medical, social and political challenges of the disease.
Nationwide, Illinois has the seventh highest number of reported AIDS cases, a total of 30,000
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CBS2 Chicago
http://cbs2chicago.com/health/world.aids.day.2.1343150.html
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Eric Daar, M.D., is LA BioMed's principal investigator on a study comparing safety and effectiveness of anti-retroviral regimens in treatment of HIV.
LOS ANGELES (Dec. 1, 2009) A study in the New England Journal of Medicine released on World
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EurekAlert
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-12/labr-nsr112409.php
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today in recognition of World AIDS Day:
"On World AIDS Day, we remember, we reflect, and we recommit to ending HIV/AIDS. This year's theme --
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PR Newswire
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pelosi-statement-in-recognition-of-world-aids-day-78228677.html
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...1988 The World Health Organization decided to name December 1st as World AIDS Day. It was a dark time for world in those early days of AIDS. There was such a strong stigma attached to HIV/AIDS that people afflicted with the disease were ostracized by their...
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Associated Content
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...is one day broken altogether. That day is coming, if we keep after it. AIDS is not just an African disease, of course. World AIDS Day is testament to the fact that AIDS is a global problem. (RED) focuses on AIDS in Africa because that is where the need is...
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Huffington Post
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-smith-ellis/world-aids-day-you-can-ma_b_374453.html
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Orange County will have several opportunities to commemorate World AIDS Day.
Here’s a rundown of today’s events:
Shanti Orange County will offer free HIV testing at Cobblestone Park in Laguna Beach, followed by a 5 p.m. vigil. Click here for
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The Orange County Register
http://healthyliving.freedomblogging.com/2009/12/01/marking-world-aids-day/13515/
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Students form the symbol of the AIDS ribbon to mark World AIDS Day in Shimla on December 1.
New figures released by the World Health Organisation and UNAIDS estimate that the number of new HIV infections have declined each year by about 17 per
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Rediff
http://news.rediff.com/slide-show/2009/dec/01/slide-show-1-world-unites-to-fight-against-aids.htm
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Today is World AIDS Day--the 21st World AIDS Day I believe. And there is much to celebrate. The global response to AIDS is beginning to work: death rates are falling, those with access to AIDS drugs are living health lives and returning to the work of
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Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-kavanagh/obamas-global-aids-grade_b_375041.html
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...Murrow High School in Midwood, Brooklyn are also displaying AIDS victims' memorial quilts throughout their building. World AIDS Day comes on the heels of a United Nations report that finds there's a greater effort to keep children from contracting the disease...
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NY1
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SEATTLE, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- While many Americans are experiencing hardship, some communities and churches are remembering their relative abundance and reaching out to those affected by AIDS in the developing world, particularly today, on
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PR Newswire
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/how-to-help-on-world-aids-day-and-year-round--companies-churches-and-community-groups-can-equip-aids-caregivers-with-kits-78212517.html
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...— Today's World AIDS Day is an especially notable occasion in Uganda where figures reveal that AIDS-related deaths in Uganda accounted for 63,000 lives in 2008 while 1.1 million people are currently living with HIV/AIDS. The current HIV prevalence in Uganda,...
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AllAfrica.com
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VIENNA, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Activists around the world on Tuesday marked World AIDS Day to keep attention on the infection that affects more than 41 million people.
The theme for this year's World AIDS Day is "Universal Access and Human Rights."
The United
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United Press International
http://www.upi.com/Daily-Briefing/2009/12/01/World-AIDS-Day/UPI-61641259674551/
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“Our calendars mark this as World AIDS Day, but our clocks tick tick tick away the minutes that mark another infection, another life changed forever, another personal struggle to thrive getting under way. On this World AIDS Day, more than 150 people in
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Miami Herald
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2009/12/task-force-calls-for-more-robust-federal-response-to-combat-the-ongoing-scourge-of-hivaids.html
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These are only 31 names of people I knew who died before I was 35 years old. There are countless scores, hundreds, more whose names I did not know, whose fates I never learned, or who have died since I stopped maintaining this list in 1994.
David
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Flatbush Gardener
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/flatbushgardener/~3/wmtYcJxwIDk/names-world-aids-day-off-topic.html
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...help keep a person living with HIV in Africa alive") as well as to "show" their support by uploading a (RED) profile picture to their Facebook account. (See screenshot below) What are you doing for World AIDS Day? Tell us in the comments section below!...
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Huffington Post
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Members of Swing Service Workers in Group, a non-profit organisation for sex workers, blow condoms during a campaign to stop the spread of AIDS ahead of World AIDS Day, in Bangkok November 29 2009. World AIDS Day is on December 1 2009.
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The Sofia Echo
http://feeds.sofiaecho.com/~r/rss2/foreign/~3/cycRs0-Avik/823661_voices-on-world-aids-day
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Banjul — The Gambia will on December 1st join the rest of the world to celebrate World AIDS Day.
The theme for this yearâ's commemoration is â"Universal access and human rightsâ". According to the press release sent to the Daily Observer, Michel Sidibe,
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AllAfrica.com
http://allafrica.com/stories/200912010343.html
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As Christians across the globe take part in events to mark World AIDS Day, members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) are participating in worship services, gatherings and advocacy activities to remember, and demonstrate support for,
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Ekklesia
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/10714
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Pretoria — For millions of South Africans infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, this year's World AIDS Day will signify a wave of change.
President Jacob Zuma is expected to address South Africans from all walks of life at an event to be held at the
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AllAfrica.com
http://allafrica.com/stories/200912010307.html
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Dubai, Dec.1 (ANI): Some of the world's best-known cricketers have called for the international cricket community to continue to support calls for greater awareness to help continue the fight against HIV.
Sangakkara said: "What cricket does well is
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OneIndia
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/oneindia-news-sports/~3/Ex3pQQN3YGY/cricketerscall-for-hivaids-awareness-prevention-on-world.html
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One hundred and seven panels from the AIDS Memorial Quilt are on display Tuesday at George Mason University's Fairfax County campus, part of the school's commemoration of World AIDS Day. Also scheduled are panel discussions, a speech by a woman who
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The Washington Post
http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=44dfed6a3f30c4aa0770d982095f759f
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Kampala — WORKING together for the past 25 years, the global community is achieving many successes in the fight against HIV/AIDS that deserve recognition on this World AIDS Day.
The World Health Organisation estimates that over four million individuals
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AllAfrica.com
http://allafrica.com/stories/200912010107.html
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Should anyone forget why a
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Tulsa World
http://www.tulsaworld.com/site/articlepath.aspx?articleid=20091201_61_A14_Solnoe213109&rss_lnk=7
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...world to make people more aware about the AIDS, increase funding support, improve knowledge about HIV-AIDS. The aim of the World AIDS Day 2009 campaign is to provide HIV prevention, treatment, care and support and the theme of the campaign is âUniversal Access...
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Merinews
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged to protect the rights of people affected with HIV/AIDS. "On this World AIDS Day, let us uphold the human rights of all people living with HIV, people at risk of infection and children and
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Uz Report
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December 1 is World AIDS Day and
weeklong programmes to educate people about the disease and spread awareness in
sections of the society more susceptible to it have been planned around the
world.
The theme for the week this year is 'Universal access
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Times of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/In-pics-World-AIDS-Day/articleshow/5287382.cms
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While it's true that most people know by now that HIV/AIDS poses a threat, World AIDS Day, which takes place today, attempts to focus the world's attention on this disease for a day and show just how big a threat still persists.
There has been
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Global Voices Online
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http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/12/01/world-aids-day-reflections-and-raising-awareness/
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New York, NY – December 1, 2009 – Today on World AIDS Day, Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) is reaffirming its commitment to continue helping diverse groups disproportionately affected by HIV and AIDS, including people struggling with crystal
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Miami Herald
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2009/12/nations-oldest-aids-organization-launches-tool-to-reach-new-faces-of-hiv-on-world-aids-day.html
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NEW BEDFORD — A candlelight vigil at City Hall at 5:30 tonight will highlight the local observance of World AIDS Day.
There will be a number of events throughout the day aimed at reminding people that HIV infection remains an important issue,
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SouthCoastToday.com
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091201/NEWS/912010356/-1/rss25
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Jonathan Ernst/Reuters A red ribbon hangs on the front of the White House in honor of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1.
A stunning, large red AIDS ribbon adorns the North Portico of the White House in advance of World AIDS Day on Tuesday.
It’s not the first
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The Caucus
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/white-house-marks-world-aids-day/
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[RxPG] New Delhi, Nov 30 - On the eve of World AIDS Day, UNAIDS - the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS - made an urgent appeal Monday to end discrimination against people affected with HIV as it was 'undermining the efforts'
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RxPG NEWS
http://www.rxpgnews.com/medicalnews/End-discrimination-against-HIV-affected-people-UNAIDS-_222499.shtml
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On this World AIDS Day we are filled with both hope and concern.
Hope because significant progress has been made towards universal access. New HIV infections have dropped. Fewer children are born with HIV. And more than 4 million people are on
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World Pharma News
http://www.worldpharmanews.com/content/view/1042/27/
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World AIDS Day comes once a year, but local officials said HIV and AIDS remain a health concern every day.
``It is still a real risk and a threat,'' said Debra Marcus, chief executive officer at Planned Parenthood of South Central New York.
Today, in
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The Oneonta Daily Star
http://www.thedailystar.com/local/local_story_335040017.html
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