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  • This is an altogether different conversation about HIV then the one shrouded in secrecy that has characterized most of this epidemic's social history.

    Mehret Mandefro: The Revolution of Relevance Mehret Mandefro 2010

  • This is an altogether different conversation about HIV then the one shrouded in secrecy that has characterized most of this epidemic's social history.

    Mehret Mandefro: The Revolution of Relevance Mehret Mandefro 2010

  • Over the epidemic's five-year course, an estimated 4,000 to 5,600 Americans died from smallpox, and tens of thousands suffered from nonfatal but often disfiguring infections.

    The Shot Heard Round the World Scott Gottlieb 2011

  • This is an altogether different conversation about HIV then the one shrouded in secrecy that has characterized most of this epidemic's social history.

    Mehret Mandefro: The Revolution of Relevance Mehret Mandefro 2010

  • That humor seemed to carry over to the shoot, where edible props—insatiable hunger is one of the epidemic's symptoms—were in abundance.

    Actress Eva Green's Perfect Sense of Character Elizabeth Fitzherbert 2011

  • This is an altogether different conversation about HIV then the one shrouded in secrecy that has characterized most of this epidemic's social history.

    Mehret Mandefro: The Revolution of Relevance Mehret Mandefro 2010

  • But the unnerving result is that the fading of the lesion-pocked AIDS patient at death's door as the poster child for the virus is fertile ground for the epidemic's rebirth.

    D.C. suburbs can no longer draw the shades on AIDS crisis 2010

  • I think that the news about the obesity epidemic's global dimensions, combined with growing concerns about rising healthcare costs, and the growing awareness of just how poor our eating habits and food have become, are creating a perfect storm.

    Maria Rodale: A Visit to My Kitchen: Ayala Laufer-Cahana, MD Maria Rodale 2010

  • I think that the news about the obesity epidemic's global dimensions, combined with growing concerns about rising healthcare costs, and the growing awareness of just how poor our eating habits and food have become, are creating a perfect storm.

    Maria Rodale: A Visit to My Kitchen: Ayala Laufer-Cahana, MD Maria Rodale 2010

  • But to give in to that fear is to aid and abet this epidemic's grueling progression.

    "Other people" get HIV/AIDS 2010

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