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    <updated>2011-12-22T22:22:18Z</updated>
    <subtitle>Civil Society Partnerships Advisor, UNAIDS</subtitle>
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    <title>HIV Is Not A Crime - Or IS IT? </title>
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    <published>2011-12-22T22:02:11Z</published>
    <updated>2011-12-22T22:22:18Z</updated>

    <summary>HIV is not a crime. Or is it?  Do you think people living with HIV should have to register as sex offenders? Do you believe people living with HIV should be sentenced to 25 years in prison for a sexual act that did not result in transmission of the HIV virus?</summary>
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        HIV is not a crime. Or is it?  Do you think people living with HIV should have to register as sex offenders? Do you believe people living with HIV should be sentenced to 25 years in prison for a sexual act that did not result in transmission of the HIV virus?
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    <title>Promoting Treatment as Prevention</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2011:/ericsawyer//38.32890</id>

    <published>2011-07-21T15:22:42Z</published>
    <updated>2011-07-21T15:33:05Z</updated>

    <summary>Sure there are scenarios where oral PrEP makes sense and these scenarios make adding oral PrEP to the HIV prevention tool-kit justifiable. But I do not think we should be promoting oral PrEP widely.</summary>
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        Sure there are scenarios where oral PrEP makes sense and these scenarios make adding oral PrEP to the HIV prevention tool-kit justifiable. But I do not think we should be promoting oral PrEP widely.
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    <title>Demand AIDS Drug Assistance Program Become an Entitlement like Medicare!</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2011:/ericsawyer//38.32630</id>

    <published>2011-02-10T20:29:19Z</published>
    <updated>2011-02-10T20:38:00Z</updated>

    <summary>It is time we stand up and demand the Congressional leadership to transition the ADAP program into the category of an entitlement program.</summary>
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        It is time we stand up and demand the Congressional leadership to transition the ADAP program into the category of an entitlement program.
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    <title>What&apos;s All the Noise About PrEP For?</title>
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    <published>2010-11-29T15:23:48Z</published>
    <updated>2010-11-29T23:59:35Z</updated>

    <summary>I can see a value in PrEP for certain individuals ... but to talk about it as a widespread general prevention tool is crazy ... Who will pay for lifelong use of ARVs as a prophylaxis for HIV?</summary>
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        I can see a value in PrEP for certain individuals ... but to talk about it as a widespread general prevention tool is crazy ... Who will pay for lifelong use of ARVs as a prophylaxis for HIV?
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    <title>Malawi Gay Men Sentenced to 14 Years</title>
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    <published>2010-05-21T01:31:00Z</published>
    <updated>2010-05-24T21:34:11Z</updated>

    <summary>When are we going to start organizing a global campaign to de-criminalize same sex love? It is crazy that with so much hate and violence and in the world that two men are sentenced to 14 years of hard labor for loving each other.</summary>
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        When are we going to start organizing a global campaign to de-criminalize same sex love? It is crazy that with so much hate and violence and in the world that two men are sentenced to 14 years of hard labor for loving each other.
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    <title>Tell Obama to man up and tell insurance companies to get lost! Tell him to look down and find his balls!</title>
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    <published>2010-02-25T17:02:05Z</published>
    <updated>2010-03-15T16:29:47Z</updated>

    <summary>President Obama needs to man up and tell insurance companies to go away!  President Obama needs to find some balls and tell insurance companies to get lost! We don&apos;t need them sucking 30% of every dollar out of the health care delivery system in the USA!</summary>
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        President Obama needs to man up and tell insurance companies to go away!  President Obama needs to find some balls and tell insurance companies to get lost! We don&apos;t need them sucking 30% of every dollar out of the health care delivery system in the USA!
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    <title>Running in the Olympic Torchbearer Relay</title>
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    <published>2010-01-18T21:02:04Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-19T23:51:58Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[January 20th, 8am in Calgary I will be carrying the Olympic Torch in the Olympic Relay as the flame crosses Canada toward the Vancouver Winter Games. I am representing people living with HIV, UNAIDS &amp; UN Plus as part of...]]></summary>
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        <![CDATA[January 20th, 8am in Calgary I will be carrying the Olympic Torch in the Olympic Relay as the flame crosses Canada toward the Vancouver Winter Games. I am representing people living with HIV, UNAIDS &amp; UN Plus as part of...]]>
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    <title>Ending of the US HIV Travel Ban; historical perspective and remaining work.</title>
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    <published>2010-01-04T23:12:27Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-04T23:48:54Z</updated>

    <summary>Let&apos;s Celebrate the Ending of the HIV Travel Ban Restriction; but let&apos;s also remember one of the USA&apos;s darkest periods of HIV persecution - so it does not happen again! While there is great cause to celebrate the ending of...</summary>
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        Let&apos;s Celebrate the Ending of the HIV Travel Ban Restriction; but let&apos;s also remember one of the USA&apos;s darkest periods of HIV persecution - so it does not happen again! While there is great cause to celebrate the ending of...
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    <title>Dennis deLeon, R.I.P.</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2009:/ericsawyer//38.2472</id>

    <published>2009-12-17T17:11:29Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-18T19:29:28Z</updated>

    <summary> This is my first blog for POZ and I write it with extreme sadness; you see I just learned about the loss of one of the HIV movement&apos;s unsung heroes: Dennis deLeon, President of the Latino Commission on AIDS...</summary>
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         This is my first blog for POZ and I write it with extreme sadness; you see I just learned about the loss of one of the HIV movement&apos;s unsung heroes: Dennis deLeon, President of the Latino Commission on AIDS...
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