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HIV/AIDS: The Forgotten Epidemic

By Colleen Brady, Prevention Education Health Educator

World AIDS Day is December 1.  Are you between the ages of 13 and 29?  Are you the parent of a teen or young adult?  Are you a woman over age 50?  Do you or have you had unprotected sex?  Have you had a piercing or a tattoo?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are, or someone close to you is, at risk for contracting HIV/AIDS.  Most of us may not think we are vulnerable, but HIV/AIDS is still a major health threat.  Scientists are closer to a cure, but they’re not there yet.  Read more

Joe

11:56 am on Wednesday, November 21, 2012

"Are you a woman over age 50?"

Why a woman and not a man over 50?

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number9dream

1:18 pm on Wednesday, November 21, 2012

What evidence do we have that "scientists" haven't found a cure for AIDS, much less cancer?

Think of the billions of dollars potentially lost by the health care industry if cures for these diseases were in fact "found." It gives them great incentive to not "find" a cure.

But of course they're given billions of dollars in grants to research cures, so they make out regardless.

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