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After graduating from Radcliffe, Connaught O’Connell Mahony took a crash course in secretarial skills and joined the workforce. She worked for the Republican State Committee, helping to organize Women’s Republican Clubs and Young Republican Clubs throughout Massachusetts. After she married and had her first child, she became a full-time volunteer—in the first class of women to become docents at the Museum of Fine Arts. She helped to found the Beacon Hill Nursery School nearly 50 years ago. She also founded a reading group with two other women, modeled...
...says many Sierra Leoneans believe the disease is a Western conspiracy to deprive Africans of pleasure and fill the coffers of foreign aid groups. "They tell me AIDS stands for American Intentions to Discourage Sex," says Moses, sitting in his tiny, file-filled office in Freetown's moldering Connaught Hospital. "Or people think you have come to aid them. The word confuses them. One thought I wanted to build him a house...
Later that same day, I walked from my village--about three miles' walk--to one of the peacekeepers' bases. Then they took me to the hospital about three days later. A German Doctors Without Borders doctor did the operation on my arms at Connaught Hospital in Freetown. After the operation, I slept for two days. I couldn't speak because of my mouth--I was just looking around. They were feeding me from a drip. It was a week before I could eat or drink. After three weeks, my wife came to the hospital to find...
Ever since the rebels were driven into the countryside, they have used brutalization as a kind of strategic device, hoping the horror of war would lead Kabbah to sue for peace. In Freetown's Connaught hospital, doctors began reporting last April that they were seeing an enormous number of mutilations, as well as women who had had foreign objects inserted in their vagina. Aid workers say pregnant women, normally highly respected and well treated in Africa, had had fetuses cut from the womb while they were still alive. Rebel soldiers slashed one woman's ankles so she could...
Most vaccine production is carried out by five major pharmaceutical companies: Merck, Smith-Kline Beecham, Connaught, Merieux and Medeva. But according to Dennis Panicali, president and CEO of the Cambridgebased Therion Biologics Corporation, it's the small biotechnology firms which are experimenting with more novel techniques for producing vaccines...