Word: hiv
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Health care. Anonymous HIV testing is a plus, but students are no more confident in University Health Services today than they were in 1995. Horror stories remain common and the alcohol policy remains unclear to many. Verdict: Even...
...endorses a range of fringe cancer therapies, including anti-neoplastons (peptides derived in part from human urine). He takes a similarly radical approach to AIDS, raising a long-discredited argument that one of the reasons traditional therapies are ineffective is that it has never been proved that HIV plays as great a role in the disease as scientists believe...
...there are important political issues that do affect the lives of Harvard students. Students are affected--either directly or indirectly--by the presence of more minority faculty, the option of anonymous HIV testing at UHS, an ethnic studies program and ROTC. Certainly these and numerous other issues are inherently politically charged. But it would be a shame for our student government to abstain from addressing them simply because of this fact...
TRANSMISSION TROUBLE Pregnant women who are infected with HIV can cut in half their risk of transmitting the AIDS virus to their newborns by having a C-section. If women are also taking anti-AIDS drugs, their risk is reduced even more--87%. Part of the reason may be that babies are less exposed to HIV during a caesarean--which, though bloody, is quick--than during the many hours of labor that can accompany a vaginal delivery...
Hyman, who in his third term became the first popularly elected council president, began advocating anonymous HIV testing at UHS, voter registration and an ethnic studies program, along with bills for Springfest...