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   <updated>2008-10-01T03:04:40Z</updated>
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   <title>Welcome to the U.S., Do You Have HIV?</title>
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   <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2008:/david//26.1425</id>
   
   <published>2008-10-01T02:51:00Z</published>
   <updated>2008-10-01T03:04:40Z</updated>
   
   <summary> The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which implements visa regulations for incoming travelers, has published it&apos;s interpretation of the PEPFAR amendment that removed the travel ban for HIV positive visitors to the U.S. But the news is mixed. The...</summary>
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       The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which implements visa regulations for incoming travelers, has published it&apos;s interpretation of the PEPFAR amendment that removed the travel ban for HIV positive visitors to the U.S. But the news is mixed. The...
      
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   <title>Unhappy Half-birthdays and Random Ramblings</title>
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   <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2008:/david//26.1416</id>
   
   <published>2008-09-28T22:55:55Z</published>
   <updated>2008-09-28T23:46:36Z</updated>
   
   <summary> In April of 1981, Sandra Ford, a drug technician at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, noticed an unusual number of requests for pentamidine, the drug used then (and now) to treat PCP pneumonia. Within months, articles appeared...</summary>
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       In April of 1981, Sandra Ford, a drug technician at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, noticed an unusual number of requests for pentamidine, the drug used then (and now) to treat PCP pneumonia. Within months, articles appeared...
      
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   <title>Untitled</title>
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   <published>2008-09-08T00:23:53Z</published>
   <updated>2008-09-17T17:11:44Z</updated>
   
   <summary>A woman was in town on a shopping trip. She began her day finding the most perfect shoes in the first shop and a beautiful dress on sale in the second. In the third, everything had just been reduced to...</summary>
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      A woman was in town on a shopping trip. She began her day finding the most perfect shoes in the first shop and a beautiful dress on sale in the second. In the third, everything had just been reduced to...
      
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   <title>Vampire Bats, White Monkeys and Blue Flashes</title>
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   <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2008:/david//26.1355</id>
   
   <published>2008-09-02T00:19:19Z</published>
   <updated>2008-09-02T00:32:03Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Today marks the beginning of my second week here on Eva’s Island. It’s a tropical island located approximately 316 kilometers (about 200 miles) south of Manila and 2 kilometers off the northwest tip of Panay island in the Western Visayas...</summary>
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      Today marks the beginning of my second week here on Eva’s Island. It’s a tropical island located approximately 316 kilometers (about 200 miles) south of Manila and 2 kilometers off the northwest tip of Panay island in the Western Visayas...
      
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   <title>Where in the World are David and Eva?</title>
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   <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2008:/david//26.1342</id>
   
   <published>2008-08-26T21:21:21Z</published>
   <updated>2008-08-29T15:14:50Z</updated>
   
   <summary>The Philippines archipelago consists of 7,107 islands. For the last 48 hours, Eva and I have been on one of them. Can you guess which one?...</summary>
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      The Philippines archipelago consists of 7,107 islands. For the last 48 hours, Eva and I have been on one of them. Can you guess which one?...
      
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   <title>Into The Blue Unknown</title>
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   <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2008:/david//26.1328</id>
   
   <published>2008-08-18T18:41:41Z</published>
   <updated>2008-09-28T23:34:28Z</updated>
   
   <summary> This Thursday I am leaving New York. I am leaving the home that I have known for 35 years, and the life that I have been living there. I will have existed here on this Earth for 58 years...</summary>
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       This Thursday I am leaving New York. I am leaving the home that I have known for 35 years, and the life that I have been living there. I will have existed here on this Earth for 58 years...
      
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   <title>Just Us?</title>
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   <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2008:/david//26.1309</id>
   
   <published>2008-08-05T00:28:28Z</published>
   <updated>2008-08-05T03:02:48Z</updated>
   
   <summary>The use of criminal law to address HIV is wrong, except in rare cases where a person acts with conscious intent to transmit HIV and does so. If any government - anywhere in the world - is going to be...</summary>
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      The use of criminal law to address HIV is wrong, except in rare cases where a person acts with conscious intent to transmit HIV and does so. If any government - anywhere in the world - is going to be...
      
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   <title>Haarthrobs</title>
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   <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2008:/david//26.1298</id>
   
   <published>2008-07-31T06:01:01Z</published>
   <updated>2008-07-31T15:20:38Z</updated>
   
   <summary>If you are reading this blog, then the odds are reasonably good that in the past few days you’ve also read here on Poz/Aidsmeds that according to one recently published study, the life expectancy for people with HIV has increased...</summary>
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      If you are reading this blog, then the odds are reasonably good that in the past few days you’ve also read here on Poz/Aidsmeds that according to one recently published study, the life expectancy for people with HIV has increased...
      
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   <title>Naturally Gassed</title>
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   <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2008:/david//26.1286</id>
   
   <published>2008-07-21T13:17:17Z</published>
   <updated>2008-07-21T23:46:56Z</updated>
   
   <summary>For the last few weeks, Texas Oilman T. Boone Pickens has been busy hyping his “plan” to solve America’s economic crisis by harnessing the wind and drilling for gas. I have no doubt that Mr. Pickens is a patriotic American,...</summary>
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      For the last few weeks, Texas Oilman T. Boone Pickens has been busy hyping his “plan” to solve America’s economic crisis by harnessing the wind and drilling for gas. I have no doubt that Mr. Pickens is a patriotic American,...
      
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   <title>Amuse Bouche</title>
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   <published>2008-07-17T23:12:31Z</published>
   <updated>2008-07-17T23:40:47Z</updated>
   
   <summary>I cannot describe the color of her eyes. The way they change from blue to green in the South Sea light. Her eyes are the only color I see now, when I close my eyes in the New York summer...</summary>
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      I cannot describe the color of her eyes. The way they change from blue to green in the South Sea light. Her eyes are the only color I see now, when I close my eyes in the New York summer...
      
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   <title>Independence!</title>
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   <published>2008-07-02T19:33:33Z</published>
   <updated>2008-07-02T21:18:18Z</updated>
   
   <summary> I never imagined that I would someday say this, but living with HIV is as much of a gift as it is a curse. We all know why HIV is a curse - the fact of the matter is...</summary>
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       I never imagined that I would someday say this, but living with HIV is as much of a gift as it is a curse. We all know why HIV is a curse - the fact of the matter is...
      
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   <title>An Email From God</title>
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   <published>2008-06-19T22:17:17Z</published>
   <updated>2008-06-22T23:30:11Z</updated>
   
   <summary>It isn’t often that my workday starts with an email from God. The message was at the bottom of the screen, just under an email from “RussianSweetGirls.com” (I didn’t open that one.) “David”, it said, “meet me at 29th Street...</summary>
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      It isn’t often that my workday starts with an email from God. The message was at the bottom of the screen, just under an email from “RussianSweetGirls.com” (I didn’t open that one.) “David”, it said, “meet me at 29th Street...
      
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   <title> Just another complaint.</title>
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   <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2008:/david//26.1218</id>
   
   <published>2008-06-09T13:11:11Z</published>
   <updated>2008-06-09T13:16:13Z</updated>
   
   <summary>We’re having a heat wave. The sound of air conditioners fills the night. I can’t sleep. There’s nothing unusual about heat waves; we have them every summer. But it isn’t summer. It’s late spring. The Planet is running a fever....</summary>
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      We’re having a heat wave. The sound of air conditioners fills the night. I can’t sleep. There’s nothing unusual about heat waves; we have them every summer. But it isn’t summer. It’s late spring. The Planet is running a fever....
      
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   <title>A Very Merry Unbirthday?</title>
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   <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2008:/david//26.1212</id>
   
   <published>2008-06-06T10:55:55Z</published>
   <updated>2008-06-07T18:07:48Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Tomorrow, June 7, 2008, will mark the fifteenth anniversary of the day that the artist presently known as Prince changed his name to an unpronounceable glyph. More significantly (!) it will mark the six month that I’ve been blogging here...</summary>
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      Tomorrow, June 7, 2008, will mark the fifteenth anniversary of the day that the artist presently known as Prince changed his name to an unpronounceable glyph. More significantly (!) it will mark the six month that I’ve been blogging here...
      
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   <title>SPAMMED!</title>
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   <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2008:/david//26.1182</id>
   
   <published>2008-05-21T10:39:39Z</published>
   <updated>2008-05-21T18:59:27Z</updated>
   
   <summary>It figures. I&apos;ve been so busy with work (!) lately that I haven&apos;t been able to devote much time to blogging, and the only comment I&apos;ve received in weeks came this morning from an outfit called &quot;penisenlargementz@gmail.com&quot; While I ordinarily...</summary>
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      It figures. I&apos;ve been so busy with work (!) lately that I haven&apos;t been able to devote much time to blogging, and the only comment I&apos;ve received in weeks came this morning from an outfit called &quot;penisenlargementz@gmail.com&quot; While I ordinarily...
      
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