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AIDS Donations Where do you think a great deal of the money that supports HIV/AIDS services comes from?  The truth is, the American government did not provide appropriate funding for research and treatment until well into the pandemic.  For this reason, care providers had to first depend on AIDS donations from private citizens to care Read the Rest…

    image courtesy of dailymail.com   Did you know that if you had HIV, the United States restricted you from being in the country for over 30 days?  After 22 years, the American ban on HIV positive international travelers was lifted on January 5, 2010. The ban was instituted at the beginning of the AIDS Read the Rest…

The American story of AIDS will always be connected to Gay history, even though on a world level, most people with the virus are heterosexuals. This is because the virus first became known in America because of unusual deaths initially noticed within the Gay population. This led officials in the public health field to create Read the Rest…

image courtesy of utsa.edu Do you know your HIV status? The medical establishment believes over one million Americans are HIV positive, but only about one in four know their status. Many, who are positive, do not ask for their outcomes, even when they are tested. A 2000 study found that almost one in three never returned Read the Rest…