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...over the past week to promote campus-wide awareness of the debilitating disease, which, to date, has killed more people than all the wars in the 20th century combined and continues to kill 3 million people each year worldwide. The general level of apathy is something we need to combat,” he said. “The future leaders of the world are here, and we want to make sure the future movers and shakers are knowledgeable about what’s going on. Harvard has a special place in the history of HIV, because we?...
...Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCCC) and the University of Massachusetts, Boston, were jointly awarded a $4.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health earlier this week. The grant, to be paid over five years, will be used to combat health disparities in the Boston area. “This marks the beginning of a bold new effort to solve one of health care’s most troubling problems—health disparities that affect so many Americans because of their backgrounds,” Sen. Edward M. Kennedy...
...familiar or new to you, they inevitably remain too abstract to convey the destruction wrought by the disease in the lives of individuals, families and communities throughout the world. Though certainly jarring, the figures fail to describe both the demographics of the disease and the efforts being undertaken to combat...
...crucial missing link in the fight against AIDS, though, is us. Harvard students have found a multitude of ways to join worldwide efforts to combat this crisis. International service, fund-raising, awareness projects, and scientific research are just a few of the avenues available to us as undergraduates. Historically, students have been some of the most active and powerful advocates in mobilizing the political will of governments. The global effort to fight HIV/AIDS is not dominated by any specific set of political ideologies or credentialed professionals. Today, World AIDS Day 2005, is a prime opportunity to discover...
...Democrats is the only thing keeping the donkey from falling on its ass.Hillary’s appeal to such a constituency as a “female/feminist” candidate is such that, according to Morris, only the selection of Condoleezza Rice for the Republican nomination can combat “the Hillary juggernaut” in 2008.Rice’s candidacy, Morris contends, would divide the African-American and female vote, transferring critical support to the Republican Party and resulting in another win in 2008. The independence and social moderation of other candidates with the potential...