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• April is STD awareness month, and the Florida Department of Health is offering free STD testing at locations across the state. Chlamydia, gonorrhea and HIV cases are all on the rise in Florida.
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• A bipartisan bill that would have expanded needle exchanges throughout the state died in the Florida House last spring, but there are calls to resurrect it during the new legislative session.
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• People who use illegal intravenous drugs or who have unprotected sex with multiple partners should get tested at least once a year. That’s according to Dr. Kevin Sherin, director of the Department of Health in Orange County. He says the test is quick.
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• One of the largest health care providers for people living with HIV in South Florida might lose its contract. Protests are planned in Fort Lauderdale.
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• The Florida Department of Health has lowered the number of people who caught HIV in Florida, but the move hasn’t come without controversy.
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• The HIV prevention nonprofit Hope and Help spent an afternoon giving out some 3,000 condoms to residents in Parramore.
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• The president today unveiled a new plan to combat HIV and AIDS through 2020.
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• A new law today makes it easier to get an HIV test in health care settings.
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• Meet Kourtnee Armanii Davinnie: 18, transgender, prom queen and HIV positive.
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• Charles Williams is sitting at a table with two of the young men he mentors. They get together at least twice a week.
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