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...study, some health experts have begun promoting a "test and treat" policy for populations with high HIV rates, as in major Western cities and parts of the developing world. Test and treat calls for the immediate treatment of all HIV-infected patients to reduce transmission rates. In November, WHO held a conference in Geneva to discuss whether the policy should be rolled out through its various agency programs. According to the team behind the Science study, however, that could prove disastrous. "Test and treat has been designed based on overly simplistic modeling. It is misguided and could lead to very...
...from Africa, Asia and the Americas. Garson is well-known in the industry - among other things, he has been executive producer of the Billboard Music Awards and the World Music Awards - and he appears confident the big names will show up. The all-day event is scheduled to be held in front of the iconic Bird's Nest Stadium in the grounds of the Olympic Training Center. Admission will be free, with some 5,000 tickets directly in front of the stage reserved for VIPs. Garson says he expects a crowd of 50,000, though because the open area around...
...Soon, the idea of a global concert for peace was born. Though it was originally intended to be held within the Vatican, years of delays and cancellations led Garson to look further afield. At one point the concert was to be held at the U.N. office in Geneva, but that, too, was cancelled, leading him to search in the Middle East. Eventually, his work took him to China, where he believes he was destined to hold the concert all along. "Things happen for a reason," he says...
...bans are always rolled out general and mid-term elections in the Philippines, held every six and three years, respectively. The past three elections have each seen around 120 killings of candidates, supporters and Comelec officials, and around 250 violent incidents...
...officials say al-Awlaki was leading a double life. In 2000 he met with Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, two of the five men who on Sept. 11, 2001, would hijack American Airlines Flight 77 and fly it into the Pentagon. These sources say that al-Awlaki held several closed-door meetings with the hijackers and that they regularly attended his sermons. But although the FBI investigated al-Awlaki's possible al-Qaeda connections before 9/11, it was unable to make anything stick. (See TIME's photo-essay "Double Agents: A Photo Dossier...