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Alarming surge in drug-resistant HIV uncovered.

Health authorities have uncovered an alarming surge in resistance to crucial HIV drugs. Surveys by the World Health Organization (WHO) reveal that, in the past 4 years, 12 countries in Africa, Asia and the Americas have surpassed acceptable levels of drug resistance…

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Presidential candidate told AIDS patients that sickness is ‘an illusion’.

Democratic Presidential candidate Marianne Williamson is under scrutiny for her beliefs about HIV/AIDS. The spiritualist self-help guru has made a splash with her left-field interventions during the first rounds of Democratic Presidential TV debates, but her real-life record is stirring controversy…

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‘Straight Pride’ organizer’s son is gay…and pissed.

Mylinda Mason — a co-coordinator of an upcoming Straight Pride event in Modesto, California — has a 28-year-old gay, adopted and estranged son named Matthew Mason who is speaking out against his mother and her colleague’s attempts to hold a Straight Pride event…

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Family Research Council celebrated Pride with vile post.

Extreme anti-LBGTQ group Family Research Council regularly traffics in extreme language, but it recently published a post by Peter Sprigg about LGBTQ Pride Month, which was particularly vile even by its own standards. In the blog, Sprigg said gay men should not…