Council leader Philip Hickson said the authority decided to work with Unite after taking advice from lawyers.

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That day, Hickson ordered that both girls be returned home and without electronic monitors, as child welfare officials had requested.

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Mr Hickson says the therapy would be particularly important for people in relationships where they knew one partner was HIV positive, in case of condom failures, for example.

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At the court hearing, Hickson was clearly frustrated.

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Hickson said she had never intended to keep them locked up more than a few days, and she was angry she had had to schedule this hearing to force the child welfare officials to act.

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Ford Hickson, a senior research fellow with the University of Portsmouth's Sigma Research unit, says HIV prevention over the past 20 years has taken a singular route - safe sex, and reducing exposure .

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Two young graffiti artists from the Bronx, the slightly nerdy and awkward Malcolm (Ty Hickson) and the sharp-tongued, fast-witted Sofia (Tashiana Washington), platonic friends, try to hustle up money for an attention-grabbing coup: tagging the Home Run Apple at Citi Field.

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David Hickson, who has campaigned to stop silent calls, told BBC's Breakfast programme: "This is another small step forward, we've had lots of small steps over the last few years, let's wait and see what it really amounts to, " he said.

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