HIV+/AIDS In The News ( I )

Edward Kennedy via last.fm

The following has been clipped from the daily briefing of The Body: News and Views 3 September 2009
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HIV IN THE NEWS ( I )

Mourning the Loss of Senator Edward Kennedy

The outpouring of tributes continues from people in the HIV community who knew U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, who passed away late last month. "What was clear to me ... was how much he genuinely cared about fighting -- and winning -- our battle against the AIDS epidemic," recalls Kevin Robert Frost, the chief executive of amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, in this touching eulogy. "When Senator Kennedy took over the leadership of the Senate Committee on Health in 1987 and made AIDS the committee's top priority at a time when there was still so much stigma surrounding the disease, he took a political risk that few politicians would have been willing to take." (Article from amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research)

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