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Brian Vastag

JAMA. 2003;290:2787-2788.

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As December 1 marked the 15th World AIDS Day, a group of US physicians hoping to promote "best practices" in prevention and treatment was mobilizing an effort to influence how the Bush administration spends $2 billion in HIV/AIDS emergency funding for Africa and Haiti. At the same time, US public health specialists are opening the AIDS frontier in China, a country long closed to international efforts to prevent and treat the disease.

In Maseru, Lesotho, a local organization called Positive Action sponsors the production of red ribbons to encourage HIV/AIDS awareness. About 30 million Africans are living with HIV and AIDS. (Photo credit: UNAIDS/G. Pirozzi)

PREVENTION SCIENCE

Launched last year, the Health Action AIDS campaign organized by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has already signed on some 3000 US supporters. While formed with broader goals in mind, for the past several months the project has focused on urging . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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