Word: hiv
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What makes AIDS especially frightening in the developing world is that the potential for widespread infection is simply astounding, given the vast populations of many of these countries, the relatively low level of literacy and knowledge about HIV, and the lack of financial and human resources through which prevention, treatment and containment programs are administered. The reasons for the rapid rise in HIV cases are as many as the developing countries affected. Among the most important are an inability to recognize the extent of the problem accurately and early, difficulties in devising effective programs to combat AIDS, and a failure...
...achieve these goals, VISIONS sends American students to developing countries to share information about HIV and AIDS through creative and interactive educational sessions. They also organize motivated students in these countries to form branches of VISIONS in their communities. The establishment of branches is critical--it makes our impact permanent and it is the means through which we instill in students a strong sense of social responsibility. In the last three years, VISIONS delegates have reached almost 20,000 students through education efforts in India and Nepal; but it is the establishment of two student-run chapters in Bangalore...
...groups are enjoying the decline in AIDS-related deaths reported by the CDC earlier this year. Here too, VISIONS has sought to promote involvement of students in their local communities. Though its campus chapters, VISIONS has developed a volunteer program through which college students serve the needs of HIV-positive children by acting as Big Siblings. Additionally, we are beginning a peer-education program enabling college students to serve as mentors for high school students in Cambridge and Boston. Peer educators help students develop their understanding of important issues concerning HIV/AIDS, teaching them how to recognize and properly utilize their...
Richard Hartley Mims Jr., the novel's HIV-negative narrator, can't stop prematurely expostulating about his talented Greenwich Village friends who began dying from AIDS in the early '80s. Robert, an Iowa Adonis, squeezes a legendary social life and the completion of an epic symphony inspired by the Titanic into two blazing years. Angie, a part-time waitress, cracks the art world with large, spirited canvases and the smarts to know that even a gifted girl has to hustle. Mims' own promising career as a writer is detoured by home-nursing the stricken. His key ring, he notes with...
INFECTION PROTECTION There's help for hospital workers exposed to HIV from, say, a needle prick. Taking anti-AIDS drugs soon afterward can cut the odds of becoming infected...