Timeline of AIDS/HIV in America (ContributorNetwork)

World AIDS Day brings awareness to stopping the spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and the often resulting Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). AIDS in America gained prominence in the 1980s when cases were relatively new and scientists had little understanding of the disease.

Here's a timeline of major HIV/AIDS-related events:

June 1981: First Cases of AIDS reported by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

Five cases of men in Los Angeles developing advanced pneumonia made health officials curious as to how their symptoms got so severe in a short amount of time. Two of the patients died, according to the CDC. When officials discovered more details, there were similar cases in other metropolitan areas to consider.

March 1983: CDC issues recommendations

The CDC issued its first recommendations on preventing the spread of HIV. Scientists discovered the disease was spread by sexual contact or sharing bodily fluids, such as blood and semen. Using contaminated needles or a contaminated blood transfusion was found be a major transmitter of HIV.

Nov. 7, 1991: Earvin "Magic" Johnson retires from basketball

At 32, Magic Johnson retired at the prime of his NBA career when he announced he had AIDS. Thanks to the drugs he takes, Johnson still leads a full life and can concentrate on his business interests while running a charity at the same time, according to USA Today. Around the same time, Olympic diver Greg Louganis also became HIV-positive; he also lives a full life, according to a People magazine story.

1992: Elton John AIDS Foundation created

Singer and songwriter Elton John created his own charity, the Elton John AIDS Foundation, in New York City in 1992. Its purpose is to help fund prevention programs to stop the spread of HIV and AIDS throughout the world. He founded a separate charity in London a year later and together the two organizations have raised more than $220 million and helped fight AIDS in 55 countries.

1992: AIDS cases peak at 78,000

The CDC states the number of new AIDS cases in the United States peaked at 78,000 in 1992. After that, cases gradually taper off.

1998: New AIDS cases level off

Since 1998, there have been an average of 40,000 new cases per year. In between 1992 and 1998, the overall number of AIDS cases decrease 47 percent.

2003: PEPFAR created by George W. Bush

President George W. Bush announces the creation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in order to combat the spread of AIDS. The five-year, $15 billion initiative is the first of its kind, according to the Family Research Council. In 2008 Bush asked for another five years worth of funding.

July 2010: Studies move forward on HIV vaccine

Although AIDS currently has no cure or a vaccine, WebMD states an antibody has been discovered that neutralizes 91 percent of HIV strains. This new information can now allow scientists to move forward to create a vaccine.

WebMD also talks about 25 different drugs currently approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treatment of HIV and its complications. Medications are used to lower the patient's viral load and fight secondary infections.

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Egyptians vote in 1st elections since uprising

CAIRO?? Voting began on Monday in Egypt's first parliamentary elections since longtime authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak was ousted in a popular uprising nine months ago.

The ballot is a milestone many Egyptians hope will usher in a democratic age after decades of dictatorship.

In the nine months since a revolt ended the ex-president's 30-year rule, political change in Egypt has faltered, with the military apparently more focused on preserving its power and privilege than on fostering any democratic transformation.

But the vote has already has been marred by turmoil in the streets, and the population is sharply polarized and confused over the nation's direction.

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Still, the vote promises to be the fairest and cleanest election in Egypt in living memory. The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest and best organized group, along with its Islamist allies are expected to do well in the vote.

Voters stood in long lines outside some polling centers in Cairo well before they opened at 8 a.m. local time (1 a.m. ET), a rare sign of interest in political participation after decades of apathy created by the mass rigging of every vote.

"We are very happy to be here and to be part of the election," said Wafa Zaklama, 55, voting for the first time in a parliamentary election. "What was the point before?" she asked.

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"I am voting for freedom. We lived in slavery. Now we want justice in freedom," said 50-year-old Iris Nawar as she was about to vote in the district of Maadi, a Cairo suburb.

"We are afraid of the Muslim Brotherhood. But we lived for 30 years under Mubarak, we will live with them too," said Nawar, a fist-time voter.

'No fanatics'
In the upscale neighborhood of Zamalek, some 500 voters waited in line outside a polling station at a school. Shahira Ahmed, 45, was there with her husband and daughter. Like Nawar, Ahmed had never cast a ballot before.

"I never voted because I was never sure it was for real. This time, I hope it is, but I am not positive. The most important thing is to have a liberal and a civilized country, I mean no fanatics," she said, alluding to the Islamists, who hope their domination of the next parliament will bring them closer to realizing their dream of creating an Islamic Egypt.

Story: Egypt's military ruler says nation at crossroads ahead of election

Many parties have been set up in recent months after Mubarak's ouster. Under the former president, polls were routinely rigged and his National Democratic Party repeatedly secured sweeping majorities in parliament.

The first phase of voting Monday and Tuesday includes Cairo and Alexandria. The staggered voting system means the election to the lower house will not be completed till January 11. Voters pick a mixture of party lists and individual candidates.

Oppressed under Mubarak, the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist parties stood aloof from those challenging army rule, unwilling to let anything obstruct elections that may open a route to political power previously beyond their reach.

Silent majority?
It is not clear whether voters will punish them for that or whether the Brotherhood's disciplined organization will enable its newly formed Freedom and Justice Party to triumph over the welter of lesser-known parties and individuals in the race.

A high turnout among Egypt's 50 million eligible voters could throw up surprises, perhaps revealing whether a silent majority favors stability or the radical overhaul demanded by the youthful protesters who overthrew Mubarak.

Slideshow: Protests continue in Egypt (on this page)

Shadi Hamid, research director at the Doha Brookings Center, said the parliamentary vote phased over weeks until January 10 was the first real benchmark of progress in Egypt's transition.

"It will also tell us how much Egyptians are invested in this political process. If turnout is low, it will mean there is widespread disaffection among Egyptians and they don't believe that real change is possible through the electoral process."

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Parliament's lower house will be Egypt's first nationally elected body since Mubarak's fall, and those credentials alone may enable it to dilute the military's monopoly of power.

The military had envisaged that once upper house polls are completed in March, parliament would pick a constituent assembly to write a constitution to be approved by a referendum before a presidential election. That would have let the generals stay in power until late 2012 or early 2013.

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The faster timetable agreed under pressure from the street has thrown up many questions about how the process will unfold and how much influence the army will retain behind the scenes.

The United States and its European allies, which have long valued Egypt's peace treaty with Israel, have urged the generals to step aside swiftly, apparently seeing them as causing, not curing instability in the most populous Arab nation.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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Gov't aircraft operations often lack FAA oversight (AP)

WASHINGTON ? Nonmilitary government agencies own or lease thousands of aircraft, but they are often on their own when it comes to safety oversight of their operations ? a situation that accident investigators say has contributed to air crashes and deaths.

Federal, state and local agencies own or lease more than 2,400 nonmilitary planes and helicopters for fighting forest fires, chasing crooks, conducting scientific research and other tasks. By comparison, the world's largest airline ? created by the merger of United and Continental ? and its regional carriers operate fewer than 1,300 planes.

But unlike commercial airlines, government agencies are mostly left to police the safety of their flight operations themselves. The Federal Aviation Administration has long said it doesn't have the authority to apply regulations to government agencies as long as their aircraft are engaged in public missions like firefighting or law enforcement. The FAA also doesn't regulate the airworthiness or maintenance of military surplus aircraft in use by government agencies.

From 2000 through the first eight months of this year, the National Transportation Safety Board investigated at least 349 accidents, resulting in 135 deaths, involving aircraft owned by or operated under contract for government agencies. Problems uncovered in some of those accidents have prompted the board to host a forum beginning Wednesday aimed at getting the FAA and other government officials to discuss ways to address the issue.

"The issue for us is who is responsible (for safety). We have cases now where we ask that question and no one seems to know," said Tom Haueter, director of NTSB's office of aviation safety.

The NTSB isn't the only one confused. John Allen, the head of the FAA's flight standards, told a gathering of private and public aviation officials earlier this year that even his inspectors are sometimes uncertain of their role.

FAA officials have asked Congress to clarify the situation but the request "isn't a high priority" for lawmakers, Allen said.

Part of the problem is that safety regulations written with commercial and private aviation in mind don't address government operations that are sometimes inherently risky.

"They're landing on dirt strips out in the middle of nowhere. They're shooting coyotes from the air. ... Some of the stuff is really kind of intense flying. If you're down low enough for a guy to shoot a coyote, that's pretty low," Haueter said.

Assigning responsibility for safety oversight becomes even murkier when private contractors operate flights for government agencies, an increasingly common occurrence.

The FAA published new guidance for government agencies and contractors in March, but safety investigators and contractors said there are still many gray areas.

The NTSB forum was spurred in part by the agency's two-year investigation of the August 2008 crash of a firefighting helicopter near Weaverville in Northern California. Nine people were killed and four others injured. The company that operated the flight misrepresented the performance capabilities of its helicopters in order to win a U.S. Forest Service firefighting contract, and then gave misinformation to its own pilots, causing them to underestimate the aircraft's weight, NTSB's investigation found.

The board faulted the Forest Service for not ensuring the helicopter operator was following safety regulations as promised in its contract. It also faulted the FAA, whose inspectors checked the safety of aircraft the contractor used for nongovernment work, but ignored helicopters used for government assignments.

Other accidents that have raised concern:

? A New Mexico state police helicopter crashed while attempting to rescue a lost hiker near Santa Fe, N.M., in June 2009. The pilot and the hiker were killed and a highway patrolman seriously injured. State police placed greater importance on completing missions than on making certain they were carried out safely, the board said. The agency also didn't employ enough pilots to safely operate around the clock, which indirectly put pressure on pilots to fly missions despite not having had enough rest.

? A Maryland state police medical evacuation helicopter crashed at night in poor weather while attempting to transport two auto accident victims in September 2008. The pilot, two medical workers and one of the accident victims were killed. The second accident victim was severely injured. The board questioned the agency's decision to dispatch the helicopter, saying police should have assessed the potential risks first.

Cases like the Weaverville accident involving a deliberate disregard for safety are rare, said Matt Zucarro, president of Helicopter Association International, whose members include government contractors.

"If you look at (contractor) aircraft performing government operations, the civilian ones, as well as government-operated aircraft, they have a very good safety record," Zucarro said. "Generally the operators have their standards and they aren't going to mitigate or diminish them because they get a request from a government agency for something."

The accident rate for nonmilitary federal aircraft was 1.65 per 100,000 flight hours in the 2010 budget year, nearly the same as the rate for most commercial aircraft operators other than airlines, according to the General Services Administration.

FAA inspectors may not have the authority to demand safety information from contractors whose work for the Defense Department is classified secret, Allen told contractors at the meeting, which was hosted by the helicopter association.

"You are seeing more and more contracting in support of government services," he said. "The regulatory framework is slow to catch up."

While the FAA doesn't regulate contractors who are performing government work like firefighting, the contractors are responsible for following safety regulations when they merely carry passengers for the government, Allen said. Those who don't could face fines, he said.

He cited the example of a contractor transporting special forces troops in Afghanistan who was asked by the military to carry cargo containing ammunition on the plane as well. FAA regulations don't permit ammunition on passenger-carrying aircraft.

"You need to educate your air crews not to be enticed to operate outside the regulations in the heat of battle," he warned.

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Katherine Heigl: Not a Fan of Balls

Katherine Heigl loves animals, but she hates balls.

So she tells us in this new Funny or Die video, which serves the dual purpose of promoting animal neutering and proclaiming her distaste for those freaking things.

This three-minute rant is just the beginning. There's also an official site - ihateballs (dot) com - and an official hashtag, #IHateBalls. The message is fairly clear.

The former Grey's Anatomy star and Maxim Hot 100 member flat-out despises testicles on all male life forms. Seriously. You do not want to let her near yours.

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Study: Fewer children in US lack health insurance (AP)

MIAMI ? Even with more children living in poverty because of the rough economy, the number of children without health insurance in the U.S. has dropped by 1 million in the past three years, according to a report released Tuesday by Georgetown University.

Many states have expanded eligibility for, and simplified access to, the children's Medicaid program. This has helped shrink the number of uninsured children from 6.9 million in 2008 to 5.9 million in 2010. Experts say the Affordable Care Act, the federal health care overhaul that requires states to maintain income eligibility levels and discourages other barriers to coverage, has played a key role in the improvement.

Overall, 34 states had a significant decrease in the rate of uninsured children.

Florida made the most progress, dropping from 667,758 to 506,934 during that time period, although the state still has one of the highest rates of uninsured children in the nation.

Minnesota, Kansas and Wisconsin saw an increase in the number of uninsured children.

Nevada has the highest rate of uninsured children while Massachusetts has the lowest, according to the report.

The findings are based on an analysis of new health insurance data from the Census Bureau. It was done by the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute's Center for Children and Families.

The news comes as the number of uninsured adults has risen in the past few years.

High unemployment rates and the increasing cost of private insurance are driving more families to the federal-state Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Programs, also known as CHIP. Both programs provide health insurance for children, but come from different funding streams and allow states more flexibility in how they run their programs.

President Barack Obama signed an extension of CHIP and provided $87 billion to help states pay for Medicaid in the 2009 economic stimulus, and experts say a bipartisan national commitment aimed at covering children has given states new tools and incentives to follow through. For example, some states once required face-to-face interviews; now many states have online applications.

The Affordable Care Act should also help preserve these gains going forward, said Joan Alker, co-executive director of the Georgetown University research center.

"We will move to a culture of coverage. The presumption is everyone has insurance," she said. "Families will feel there's an option out there for them."

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments challenging the constitutionality of the historic health care overhaul next year.

Florida led the nation in reducing the number of uninsured children, in part because the state's Medicaid rolls swelled as the economy soured. But legislation passed in 2009 has also simplified the process and reduced penalties for those who don't pay premiums.

South Carolina is trying to make it easier for low-income children who already qualify for health care coverage to enroll in Medicaid. The state's Medicaid director is requesting an additional $35 million from the state for next year's budget. Nearly $30 million of that would pay to add an estimated 70,000 children to Medicaid rolls by streamlining the application process.

While Tuesday's report is promising, experts worry that increased enrollment may be difficult to sustain as state lawmakers slash budgets, especially for big-ticket expenses such as health care.

"These gains are fragile and could quickly be reversed if state or federal support erodes," Alker said.

More than 128,000 children are on the waiting list in Arizona after officials froze their KidsCare program enrollment in 2010 to help balance the state budget. The program now has approximately 15,000 children ? down from 45,820. The state recently submitted a two-year plan for federal approval that would allow enrollment of 19,000 children now on a waiting list.

Still, Arizona was able to drop from 258,339 uninsured children in 2008 to 207,967 in 2010, according to the report.

Wisconsin state officials are looking to move 215,000 Medicaid-eligible children into a stripped-down version of the program with reduced benefits.

Texas also decreased the number of uninsured children, but some health advocates fear major state cuts to address that state's massive budget crisis. In 2003, when the state was facing a smaller shortfall, more than 200,000 children were kicked off of the Children's Health Insurance Program.

Minnesota saw the largest increase in uninsured children, jumping from 72,493 in 2008 to 84,165 in 2010, according to the report.

For years, Minnesota has operated under a federal waiver that differed from other states. The waiver said that children eligible for the state's insurance program were not also eligible for the federal program, meaning the state lost out on enhanced matching funds. In the past several years, the state has made cuts. For example, the program used to allow children born on Medicaid to remain on the program until age 2 regardless of circumstances. Now a child can remain until age 1, Berglin said.

The state has attempted improvements such as creating gap coverage between Medicaid and Minnesota care, but the federal government didn't sign off, she said.

"Doing the things that other states have done is more costly for Minnesota," said former Minnesota Sen. Linda Berglin, a longtime champion of health care services. "It makes me sad. Obviously I believe having all children insured is a goal we should be striving for. If we are going to implement federal reform that will take care of a lot of the problem."

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Gingrich coup: Endorsement from NH's largest paper (The Arizona Republic)

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Preparations over: Congressman Mack announces he's entering Florida Senate race (Star Tribune)

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iOS 5.1 beta seeded to developers (Update: iPhone 5, new iPad and Apple TV revealed?)

The latest update to iOS 5 is drawing near, folks, as the beta of version 5.1 was just released on Apple's developer site. You can grab the build if you're in possession of an iPhone 3GS or later, either iPad or the third and fourth generations of the iPod Touch. We're hoping to see some fixes to the battery life issues on the iPhone 4S, as the company has acknowledged the concern and promised a fix in the near future. Stay tuned as we learn more about the new refresh.

Update: A little digging has already revealed a new product ID contained in the update, referencing an "iPad 2,4". There's some speculation that this could be a reference to a tablet with a modem from Sprint built in, but even if that's the case, who knows if it would actually be released prior to the next generation iPad.

Update 2: More leaks! Now 9to5Mac is reporting on a new device, codenamed "J33", which it believes refers to a new model of the Apple TV box. Hit up the link for a few more well-reasoned rumors, we'll let you know if any more details surface.

Update 3: Ok, now we're starting to think someone in Cupertino is just screwing with us. One more time, sleuths have uncovered a reference to the elusive iPhone 5 (aka "iPhone 5,1") in the code, as shown above. Check the third link for more details from 9to5Mac, and prepare for a whole new round of next gen iPhone rumors incoming any minute now.

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Mo. student gives more details on arrest in Cairo (AP)

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. ? An American student arrested during protests in Cairo says he feared for his life after he was taken into custody by four or five people in plain clothes.

Nineteen-year-old Derrik Sweeney tells The Associated Press in a Sunday interview via Skype that the evening started peacefully in Tahrir Square, where protesters have been gathering for more than a week.

He says he and others later wandered through the streets to the Interior Ministry but fled when shots were fired.

Sweeney says four or five "plain clothes Egyptians" then offered to lead the students to safety. He says they followed but found themselves taken into custody, beaten and threatened with guns.

Sweeney and the other two students flew back to the U.S. on Saturday after a court ordered them released.

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Three American college students detained for several days in Cairo as deadly protests swept Egypt have flown home to freedom, one describing an ordeal so terrifying he wasn't sure he would survive.

"I was not sure I was going to live," 19-year-old Georgetown University student Derrik Sweeney told The Associated Press by telephone moments after his relieved parents and other family members enveloped him in hugs as he got off a flight in St. Louis.

Sweeney, the last of the three to arrive late Saturday, recounted how tear gas clouded Cairo's streets and he heard armored vehicles and what sounded like shots being fired just before his arrest a week earlier. Suddenly, the drama involving thousands of demonstrators in the streets had become intensely personal.

Egyptian authorities later announced they had arrested Sweeney and two others ? Luke Gates, a 21-year-old Indiana University student from Bloomington, Ind., and Gregory Porter, a 19-year-old Drexel University student from Glenside, Pa. All three were studying at American University in Cairo, which is near Tahrir Square.

Protests have been going on in the square since Nov. 19 in anticipation of the landmark parliamentary elections due to start Monday. The crowd grew to more than 100,000 people Friday, and thousands were gathering Sunday for another massive demonstration calling for the nation's military leaders to hand power back to a civilian government.

Egyptian officials said they arrested the students on the roof of a university building and accused them of throwing firebombs at security forces fighting with protesters. But Sweeney said Saturday that he and the other Americans "never did anything to hurt anyone," weren't ever on the roof and never handled or threw explosives.

Sweeney said he and the others were told by a group the night of their arrest that they would be led "to a safe place" amid the chaos engulfing the nearby square. Next, he said, they found themselves being taken into custody, hit and forced to lay for about six hours in a near fetal position in the dark with their hands behind their backs.

The worst, he said, was when they were threatened with guns.

"They said if we moved at all, even an inch, they would shoot us. They were behind us with guns," Sweeney said in the brief interview.

That night in detention ? "probably the scariest night of my life ever" ? gave way to much better treatment in ensuing days, he said. Sweeney didn't elaborate on who he believed was holding him the opening night but he called the subsequent treatment humane.

"There was really marked treatment between the first night and the next three nights or however long it was. The first night, it was kind of rough. They were hitting us; they were saying they were going to shoot us and they were putting us in really uncomfortable positions. But after that first night, we were treated in a just manner ... we were given food when we needed and it was OK."

He also said he was then able to speak with a U.S. consular official, his mother and a lawyer. He said he denied the accusations during what he called proper questioning by Egyptian authorities.

A court ordered the students' release Thursday, and they took separate flights out of Cairo on Saturday. Porter and Gates arrived in their home states earlier Saturday, greeted by family members in emotional airport reunions.

Neither Gates nor Porter recounted details of their experience.

"I'm not going to take this as a negative experience. It's still a great country," said Gates, shortly after getting off a flight in Indianapolis. His parents wrapped their arms around him.

Porter was met by his parents and other relatives at Philadelphia International Airport. He took no questions, saying he was thankful for the help he and the others received from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, administrators at the university they were attending, and attorneys in Egypt and the U.S.

"I'm just so thankful to be back, to be in Philadelphia right now," he said.

Joy Sweeney said waiting for her son had been grueling.

"He still hasn't processed what a big deal this is," she told the AP before his arrival in St. Louis, about 130 miles east of their home in Jefferson City, Mo.

She said she was trying not to dwell on the events and was just ecstatic that her son was coming home before the close of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

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Matheson reported from Philadelphia. Associated Press photographer Michael Conroy contributed to this report from Indianapolis, and AP writers Bill Cormier in Atlanta and Andale Gross and Erin Gartner in Chicago also contributed.

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UK secretly helping Canada push its oil sands project

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