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...realize how much women lack basic rights in this country," Julia Kim writes in an e-mail from Swaziland. "The lack of women's rights has greatly impacted the HIV epidemic here. The only property that a woman legally owns is whatever she has purchased with money that she has made on her own. But when speaking with women in Mpuluzi [a small town in rural Swaziland, close to the western border], many of them told us that whatever money was made from basketweaving was taken by their husbands...
...This lack of basic rights trickles down to the children who are often under women's care. "I saw a nine-year-old girl, who had just tested HIV-positive two weeks ago," continues Kim. "I had never seen a CD4 count so low; I could not believe she was still walking without blatant evidence of infection. I tried to impress upon her father the urgency of the situation, the full import of such an immunocompromised state, the dire need for ARVS, urging him to return as soon as possible for adherence counseling with a second caregiver. His response...
...having the basic medical equipment and medications that Western doctors take for granted is another adjustment. Even in the Centers of Excellence, which represent the higher end of medical care available in Africa, supply chains aren't always reliable. "There are still many challenges here with labs and medicine - not ARVS but things like iron supplements or antibiotics like penicillin that are not consistently available," Megan Harkless e-mailed last week from Botswana. "There is still stigma and fear, and families that are financially very limited with no [electrical] power and therefore no refrigerator. Some patients have to travel...
Young people should be taught that a “basic requirement of being an American is giving back to your country,” Garcetti said...
...those who have not seen the movie, the basic conceit of the film is that Borat, a reporter from Kazakh television, is visiting the U.S. in order to make a documentary. His hope is that by learning from America, the greatest country on earth, Kazakhstan might learn to deal with all of its problems—problems that Borat neatly divides into “social, economic...