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For years, members of black religious congregations suffered silently with HIV and died alone with AIDS. Those who weren't affected thought it was a gay, white man's disease. Those who were ill kept quiet, fearing the stigma. For years, black pastors shied away from bringing talk of AIDS to the pulpit. But not on Sunday. At Beulah Baptist Institutional Church in Tampa, dozens gathered for a free afternoon gospel concert to benefit AIDS initiatives. At the morning service, grandmothers in fancy hats held hands and bowed their heads to pray for prevention. One of them was 77-year-old Mary Darien. 'We need to stop burying our heads in the sand,' she said. Her pastor, W. James Favorite, is head of the Black Leadership Commission on AIDS of Tampa Bay and a member of Pastors on Patrol, a network of more than 100 local churches. He called on clergy all across the bay area to put AIDS and HIV awareness at the heart of their sermons. They responded. One told the story of Jesus, healing a woman

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In the aftermath of the A/H1NI flu virus outbreak, the government has decided to offer holidaymakers free medical insurance to help kick-start the stricken tourism industry