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2 - The debut episode of POZ at Home, a live online series that brings together community members to discuss HIV-related topics, features a conversation with Mark S. King, Venita Ray and Charles Sanchez about how they are coping during the coronavirus pandemic while living with HIV. (2020)
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5 - HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day
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16 - Six members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, three of whom are living with HIV, resign, citing concerns about how the Trump administration is failing to address the epidemic. (2017)
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19 - President George W. Bush promotes a $500 million initiative to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV. (2002)
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24 - President Ronald Reagan issues an executive order to establish a presidential commission on the HIV epidemic to “recommend measures that Federal, State, and local officials can take to (1) protect the public from contracting HIV; (2) assist in finding a cure for AIDS; and (3) care for those who already have the disease.” (1987)
27 - National HIV Testing Day
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