March 20 is National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
March 20th: Annual National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NNHAAD) reconnizes that HIV continues to increase among Native people as it has over the past decade.
This day will challenge us to work together, in harmony, to create a greater awareness of the risk of HIV/AIDS to our Native communities, to
call for resources for testing and early detection and for increased treatment options, and to eventually decrease the occurrence of HIV/AIDS among Native people.
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LifeScience Moment: Robert Koch announced the discovery of tubercle bacillus, the cause of tuberculosis
On March 24, 1882, German scientist Robert Koch announced to the Berlin Physiological Society that he had discovered the cause of tuberculosis.
Three weeks later, on April 10, Koch published an article entitled "The Etiology of Tuberculosis" and in 1884, in a second paper
with the same title, he first expounded "Koch's postulates," which have since become basic to studies of all infectious diseases.
In 1905, Koch was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis."
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Science Quote
"Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers."
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Sir Arthur Eddington, English astronomer
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(1882-1944)
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