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...patients tests, nor by epidemiologists, who subscribe to much deflated AIDS rate statistics. Though the percentage of infected individuals here is many times greater than the most heavily affected countries in the West, Niger is not South Africa, where as much as 40 per cent of the population is HIV positive, and almost all of them have no idea. In African nations like these, AIDS is rife and medications are next to impossible to come by.In 2001, generic drug manufacturers surfaced in countries such as India and Brazil that could produce and sell crucial AIDS drugs at a fraction...
...suffer from them. Sarah Jane Gilmour East Lansing, Michigan, U.S. How dare that self-righteous evangelist even hint that Jesus would heal people with AIDS and tell them, "Go and sin no more." I ask Graham, What sin did a newborn commit to come into this world with HIV? What sin did an unsuspecting person given a blood transfusion commit to get tainted blood? What sin did the thousands of Christian women whose breast cancer was diagnosed last year commit? Some may pat Graham on the back for lobbying President Bush to provide funding in the fight against AIDS. Graham...
...tincture. But India's wealthy have hitherto frowned upon hard drugs, looking upon them as the purvey of the country's poor. For years, India has grappled with "brown sugar" -low-grade heroin produced locally or imported from Afghanistan or Burma - that has left a trail of overdoses and HIV infections in its wake...
...Lieberman says that since the amount of material necessary for effectiveness is miniscule—a few picomoles in mice—the drug has the potential to cost only around $8 per application.The findings also have the potential to have an impact on the transmission of HIV.“Herpes infection is the leading risk factor for sexual transmission of HIV worldwide,” says Lieberman, who adds that reducing the occurrence of genital herpes would make HIV much less transmissible.In addition, Lieberman says, RNAi could, “in principle,” be used...
Fantastic stories often stray into fantasy—who knew? As if faux-memoir writer James Frey weren’t enough, hip literary circles have been rocked by the revelation that the author JT LeRoy is just a phantom of two washed-up rockers’ imaginations. LeRoy, HIV-positive queer writer of “autobiographical” childhood truck-stop prostitute tales, does not exist, and his rags-to-riches memoirs are a hoax. Oh, the critics bemoan, what happened to the importance of being honest? Where lies the lost virtue of authenticity? A better question might...