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...hundreds more already inside, Lewis has been lured by the chance to participate in the Democrats' first-ever Global Primary, a rolling eight-day event that kicked off on Super Tuesday and is designed to allow expatriate Democrats to vote in 33 countries, from the Dominican Republic to Cambodia. The Global Primary also offers them the option of voting by fax or online. The global tally will be announced on Feb. 21, and it will determine the selection of 22 delegates commanding 11 votes at the Democratic Convention in August...
Though initial human studies of tenofovir alone have produced encouraging results, none have shown 100% protection, raising ethical issues and, in some cases, halting trials: In 2004 and 2005, AIDS activists - notably, a Paris-based chapter of ACT UP - protested ARV trials in Cameroon and Cambodia, questioning who would pay for long-term health care for the participants and whether the drugs would cause harmful side effects. Those trials were stopped...
...person of Herculean capabilities: a Detur Book Prize winner, John Harvard Scholar, pre-med econ major interviewing for both medical schools and consulting firms (just landing a job at McKinsey & Co.) who has also spent one summer drafting a $31 million grant for malaria and AIDS intervention in Cambodia, another documenting sex workers in Kenya, and the times in between working in various organizations across campuses. “She is a programming chair of PBHA,” says Phillips Brooks House Association President (PBHA) Angelico N. A. Razon ’08, who met Chen during the Freshman...
...Health-care professionals are trying to raise global awareness of the threat. In Cambodia, for example, more funding goes to controlling avian flu, a disease that affects far fewer people but has a higher fear factor worldwide. Health organizations such as the U.S.-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are stressing the link between climate change and disease, hoping to get more money to fight mosquito-borne illnesses. "This is a critical moment," says Dr. Maria Neira, director of the WHO's program on public health and the environment. "If the public pressure is maintained, the politicians will...
...dengue isn't going away. Across Southeast Asia, doctors and public-health officials are grappling with alarmingly high dengue-infection rates. Cambodia and Vietnam reported double the cases this year compared with last, and more than 400 deaths; Thailand and Burma each recorded roughly a third more cases in 2007. The World Health Organization (WHO) says this is the fourth consecutive year of unusually high rates in the region - and doctors are worried that global warming may be partially to blame...