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Senator Edward Kennedy plans to introduce a bill requiring pharma to post all clinical drug-trial results on a government website. Already, Merck has voluntarily complied.

In August, an Australian family-planning org launched “Safe in the Sack,” a condom and poster campaign aimed at Sydney backpackers.

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich announced in August the first-ever statewide program for buying prescription meds online from Britain and Ireland.

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For the third straight year, the Senate Appropriations Committee has denied increased funding for the largest source of federal HIV-care money: the Ryan White Care Act.

New York City’s Office of School Health cut condom demos from the sex-ed curricula on August 27—without explanation.

In September, the U.S. announced that 25,000 people get meds through U.S. global AIDS programs, two percent of the two million goal set for 2008.