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With the central government now involved, local authorities could no longer hide what the world has come to know as China's AIDS villages. Today a health clinic in the first village Gui visited provides free HIV testing and antiretroviral treatments, and a charity home shelters orphans and the elderly whose caretakers have died of AIDS...
...clinic at Wuhan University is now recognized as a national training center for AIDS doctors and has pioneered in China use of a three-drug combination therapy for HIV-positive pregnant women and pediatric formulations of AIDS drugs for children. With medicine donated by the Clinton Foundation, Gui will offer treatment without charge to 200 infected infants over the next few years. Those children will be Gui's legacy, living reminders of the doctor's bravery and dedication. "The road ahead is still very long," he says. But thanks to Gui, China has taken the important first steps...
...DIED. STELLA OBASANJO, 59, wife of Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo; after cosmetic surgery at a Spanish clinic; in Marbella. The flamboyant first lady reportedly had an operation to reduce her body fat but died following complications that are now being investigated. Her death occurred just a few hours after a domestic plane crash claimed 117 victims, leading the President to declare a national day of mourning...
Apart from a kind of sybaritic utilitarianism, there is science to explain this yen for closets. Getting organized appears to lower stress and anxiety and increase efficiency. Sheila Jowsey, a professor of psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic, says, "Organization is comforting. It's soothing." How does this age of bigger and more luxurious closets bring about that kind of Zen? "We don't have the disposable time to go through our possessions and determine what we need, so it accumulates," Jowsey says. "What Americans do have is enough disposable income to tell somebody, 'Build...
...months after that game, Favre tearfully admitted he was addicted to the painkiller Vicodin. Last summer he checked himself into the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, and emerged a new man. He swore off alcohol and married his high school sweetheart, the mother of their five-year-old daughter. But soon thereafter, his best friend back in Kiln, Mississippi, Mark Haverty, was killed in a car accident; the driver, who police say was legally intoxicated, was Brett's brother Scott. A month after that, his sister Brandi was arrested in connection with a drive-by shooting in Louisiana. Through...