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Check out Sexual Health Xchange's David Munar's first blog post for the Prevention Justice Mobilization below. ThePJM is in full force at the National HIV Prevention Conference currently underway in Atlanta. Click their blog regularly for full, ongoing commentary and analysis of the proceedings... in other words, for all the dirt. If you are in Atlanta, check out the LifeLube post on the march/rally that will be "shining a light" tomorrow, Tuesday, December 6 beginning right across from the Hyatt where the conference is happening.

by David Munar

Resolute in its decision to delay the release of alarming new HIV infection estimates, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) kicked off the National HIV Prevention Conference amid widespread anger and concern that the nation may be losing ground in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

With speculation mounting about the motives and content of CDC's unreleased data, official speeches of compassion and urgency received polite applause from the hundreds of assembled participants who seemed either unmoved or unconvinced.

Remarks from the openly HIV-positive co-chair of the HIV Advisory Committee for CDC and HRSA electrified an otherwise sedated opening plenary. Acknowledging a need to voice what might otherwise not be said, Jesse Milan Jr. (right) told the audience the time had come for the U.S. to develop a national strategy against HIV/AIDS-something federal contracts require of developing nations that accept U.S. taxpayer money for AIDS relief.

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