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AIDS was the last thing Gui Xien expected to find in the remote peasant villages of China's Henan province. But when he visited there in 1999, as a favor to a fellow doctor whose patients were dying from a mysterious disease, it didn't take Gui long to make a diagnosis. The stories were all the same: first the husband would fall ill, then his wife, and after a few months, both would be dead, covered in sores and dark, wine-colored blotches. Gui had stumbled on a full-fledged AIDS epidemic, something he had only read about...
...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...
When Paul Farmer first went to Haiti in 1983, he was studying medicine and anthropology and hoping to become a doctor for the poor, perhaps in Africa. He eventually became America's most celebrated doctor for the poor, made famous by Pulitzer-prizewinning author Tracy Kidder in his 2003 book, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World...
...doctor doing battle with Africa's AIDS epidemic, you can't be a snob about where you get your next good idea. Ernest Darkoh got one of his best ideas from Wal-Mart...
That would be deeply satisfying to Alonso, 46, who, with his wife Clara, has been fighting malaria for nearly 20 years. "When you arrive as a young doctor in Africa," he says, "and you walk into a hospital, you're basically confronted with this massive disease that causes so much suffering and death. It is impossible not to become passionate about fighting it." Says the father of three: "Those children in the hospital are looking at us, telling us to put more effort, more resources, more brains, more research, to come out with solutions. They are a constant reminder...