February 7: National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
On February 7, the nation will observe the annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. This year also marks the
anniversary of the first reports of AIDS in the U.S.
The National HIV/AIDS Strategy, which now guides all federal HIV/AIDS-related efforts and programs, recognizes the disproportionate impact of HIV on African American communities. The strategy promotes HIV testing for at-risk groups and
stresses the importance of getting people who are living with HIV into care.
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LifeScience Moment: Senator Matthew Neely proposed legislation offering a $5 million reward for a cancer cure discovery.
On Febrary 4, 1927, a decade before the National Cancer Institute (NCI)I was established, Senator Matthew Neely (D)
of West Virginia proposed a bill that would offer a $5 million reward for the discovery of a cure for cancer.
Senator Neely's "reward" bill did not pass, but it was among the first in a series of proposed legislation
that laid the groundwork for the 1937 National Cancer Institute Act.
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BioEvolution Posters
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It's a Small World
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Anthrax Bacteria Colonies
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Science Quote
"To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree."
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Charles Darwin, British naturalist,
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