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The Trials And Tribulations Of Psychedelic Research

This article by Natasha Sumner was originally published on Microdose and appears here with permission.

Benzinga

Government was wrong on risk of Aids to blood scandal victims, inquiry told

Lord John Patten said a leaflet to discourage people at high risk of contracting Aids from donating blood should have been distributed faster.

The Independent UK

'I’m sorry people have had to wait 30 years', former health minister tells Infected Blood Inquiry

David Mellor said he had wanted to award compensation to victims of the contaminated blood scandal in the late 1980s

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Why isn't there a vaccine against Aids? How HIV continues to frustrate experts

When HIV and Aids were first discovered, it was hoped a vaccine wouldn't be far away - but the sheer complexity of the virus has so far frustrated scientists

Daily Mirror

‘All your friends were dying’: revisiting the horrors of the Aids crisis

In a damning new season of podcast docuseries Fiasco, journalist Leon Neyfakh revisits a period of devastating loss and horrifying apathy

The Guardian - US

Urvashi Vaid, pioneering LGBTQ activist and author, dies at 63

Urvashi Vaid, a pioneering social justice activist, attorney and author who led the nation’s oldest LGBTQ advocacy organization during the height of the AIDS crisis and fought for fundamental reforms long before same-sex marriage and other basic rights were won, has died at 63.

Los Angeles Times

Remembering Urvashi Vaid, an LGBTQ activist who spent decades fighting for equality

Colleagues, friends and admirers are paying tribute to Vaid, the pioneering attorney and organizer who died at age 63 on Friday. She worked for the ACLU and National LGBTQ Task Force, among others.

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Jill Biden heads to Latin America before hemispheric summit

The White House says Jill Biden will visit Ecuador, Panama and Costa Rica this week as the United States finalizes plans for a hemisphere-wide summit to be held in Los Angeles in June

The Independent UK

Class, queerness and illness in the ‘post-crisis’ era: rewriting the narrative of HIV

I often read a book’s acknowledgments to see who an author thanks for supporting the creation of their work and how they go about thanking them.

The Conversation

How COVID vaccines have boosted the development of an HIV vaccine

During the pandemic scientists launched a vaccine in record-breaking time. Their successful use of mRNA technology could lead to progress in the decades-long effort for an HIV inoculation.

WEKU

Bono to release memoir about ‘the people, places and possibilities’ of his life

Surrender, which will ‘draw in detail’ what he had previously only sketched in songs, will contain 40 chapters, each named after a U2 song, and include 40 original drawings by the singer

The Guardian - UK

‘The loss is omnipresent’: the grieving daughter fighting for a US Covid memorial day

The founder of Marked by Covid believes the US has failed to properly memorialize the enormous losses

The Guardian - US

Channel 4 It's A Sin fans 'shocked and upset' as show 'robbed' of BAFTA wins

Clips of the Channel 4 programme also appeared to be muted to fan's dismay

Liverpool Echo

Sound glitch blamed as Aids drama It's A Sin 'muted' on BBC BAFTA coverage

FANS of hit show It’s A Sin were upset during Sunday night’s BAFTA ceremony as the sound was “muted” out of clips from the programme.

The National (Scotland)

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It's A Sin fans blast BAFTA as drama fails to win any awards and complain about sound issues

Fans said the groundbreaking mini-series was 'robbed'

The Independent UK

It’s a Sin: Fans ‘gutted’ and ‘speechless’ after acclaimed Aids drama snubbed at Bafta TV Awards

The show, set against the backdrop of the 1980s Aids crisis, has been praised as ‘one of the most necessary, powerful, life-affirming dramas in recent years’

Daily Mirror

It's A Sin fans seethe as BAFTA mutes and censors clips - branding it 'appalling'

Critically acclaimed Channel 4 drama It's A Sin was up for five gongs this evening but - to the dismay of fans - failed to win any

Daily Mirror

BAFTA TV 2022: It's A Sin fans furious as Channel 4 show fails to win single award

Channel 4 drama series It's A Sin, written and created by Russell T Davies, proved to be a huge hit last year when it aired and followed the lives of a group of gay men and their friends during the AIDs crisis from 1981 to 1991

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The Independent UK

Bafta TV Awards 2022: Full list of winners

‘Time’, ‘Help’ and Big Zuu were among the biggest winners of the night

Manchester Evening News

BAFTA TV Awards 2022 nominations, TV channel and start time

It's A Sin and its stars could be walking home with most of tonight's awards

The Guardian - UK

Lydia West’s year in TV: ‘It’s a Sin got me into HIV and Aids activism’

The actor on the hit Channel 4 show, her passion for pottery, and why she’s excited for the next series of The Crown

Tribune News Service

Fauci tells '20, '21 UM grads to believe in science, reject 'normalization of untruths'

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Dr. Anthony Fauci on Saturday encouraged University of Michigan graduates who weren't allowed to walk across the stage two years ago due to COVID-19 to dream big, be leaders for the future and believe in facts and science and "do not accept the normalization of untruths."

ABC News

HIV infection rates are declining globally but for Pacific women and girls, it's a different story

While rates of new HIV infections and AIDs-related deaths have halved thanks to treatment options, disturbing trends are emerging in the Pacific.

The Conversation

The Catholic saint who dedicated his life to a leprosy colony in Hawaii – and became an inspiration for HIV/AIDS care

On Jan. 3, 1865, the Kingdom of Hawaii, then a sovereign state, enacted “An Act to Prevent the Spread of Leprosy.” Any person suspected of having the ancient disease – which is mentioned as far back as the Bible – would be inspected and, if deemed incurable, permanently exiled to…

The Independent UK

Pete Davidson jokes about Kanye West ‘pulling a Mrs Doubtfire’ to get back into the family home

Davidson also said that comic John Mulaney told him to spread a rumour that West has polio

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