Partners in Health quintupled the nursing staff and brought in six Rwandan doctors and the first AIDS drugs to the region.
The Mann award is given yearly in memory of Dr Jonathan Mann, an epidemiologist who set up the World Health Organisation's first Aids programme.
The current wave of activities reminds me of the preparation for, and participation in, my first International AIDS Conference, AIDS 2010, held in Vienna, Austria.
When AIDS first reared its ugly head, no one knew what caused it.
Mr. Clinton's foundation had brokered discounts on first-line AIDS drugs, many of which were older and used relatively simple chemistry.
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Those who see the UN as a mere talking-shop should remember that its first meeting on AIDS launched the Global Fund.
In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the first cases of AIDS. Since that initial discovery, the U.S. government has led a global response based on scientific research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other U.S. government agencies.
Moreover, and more unexpectedly, such people took two years longer to progress from the point where they were infected with the virus to the one where they began to show the first symptoms of AIDS. That is two years when a man ignorant of his infection would be less likely to take precautions to stop it spreading.
In the 30 years since the world first became aware of AIDS, a lot has changed.
First she took on AIDS awareness, then ovarian cancer and other causes.
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Kinshasa was one of the first places doctors recognized AIDS in Africa, three years after they discovered it in American gay men.
We know only by the data meticulously collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Protection since AIDS was first recognized in 1981.
While men who progressed to Aids had average viral loads of roughly 78, 000 copies per ml in the first year, women who progressed to AIDS only had 17, 000 copies per ml.
She's been working to fight AIDS since it first caught doctors' attention in the 1980s.
We are in that age group where we were some of the first adolescents to experience the AIDS crisis, you know?
But first, this is World AIDS Day and we decided to ask where things stand in the fight against this 30-year-old epidemic.
He launched his first ads asking people to support AIDS research in the 1980s, when the topic was still fairly taboo.
It was the first to market a protease inhibitor for AIDS in the U.S., but competing medicines ended up dominating the U.S. market.
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During the first eight months of implementation, the Washington AIDS Partnership contacted 2, 367 individuals and enrolled 268 people who had been out of care.
Xinhua said the health ministry estimates the number of people living with HIV in China had reached 740, 000 by October 2009, with deaths caused by AIDS totaling 49, 845 since the first case was reported in 1985.
McMillian secured the first federal contract to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS among African-Americans for the fraternity and helped it form partnerships with organizations such as the U.S. Marine Corps and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in discussing the disease.
Basic physics dictates that the first method is impossible without the use of heavy pharmaceutical aids, which is not encouraged.
While we've seen a few snazzy band-aids in our day, not to mention talking first aid kits, a nanofiber bandage that can heal typical skin wounds faster is about to go mainstream.
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The International AIDS Conference returned to the United States for the first time in 22 years, thanks to President Obama concluding a successful bipartisan effort to end the entry ban on persons living with HIV.
Hazuda herself was having doubts until she saw a Paul Volberding, a pioneering San Francisco doctor who had started the first program in the U.S. dedicated to treating AIDS, tell the story of a patient who had died despite the new drug cocktails.
Michael Carter, an HIV expert from the UK's National Aids Manual (Aidsmap) said the drug was the first in a new class to reach this stage of research.
The Hopkins team found that while both men and women had the same risk of developing Aids, women had lower viral loads than men during the first few years of becoming HIV positive.
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The International AIDS Conference, now in its 17th year, is being held for the first time in a Latin American country.
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