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...around issues like stem - cell research, therapeutic cloning, assisted reproduction and euthanasia, but gay rights is perhaps the most divisive. In Spain, whose kings and queens were once the most fervent defenders of the Christian faith, the Socialist government has launched a radical reform of family law that will grant gays and lesbians full legal status as parents and allow them to marry. In Ireland, another former Roman Catholic bastion, politicians from all parties meet this week to discuss whether the constitution should be changed to give homosexual couples the same rights as heterosexual ones. In England, the leaders...
...Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), one of four institutions administering the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), won a five-year $107 million grant in February for relief work in Botswana, Nigeria and Tanzania...
...shortfall in some of the numbers arises from the careful planning and coordination of the program’s activities according to Robin Herman, HSPH spokeswoman. She said there were time-consuming negotiations on logistics among HSPH, the U.S. government and the three other grant recipients—Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Catholic Relief Services and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation—before the program could operate at full capacity...
Barnes said that, unlike previous AIDS relief organizations with multi-year implementations plans, the PEPFAR program was put on the ground within months of the grant announcement...
...Mahan still recommended that the council grant the Prefect program money in the interim citing their insufficient budget and importance to freshman life...