Word: hiv
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...exhilarating as any Steve McQueen car chase or Chow Yun-Fat shoot-out.The film’s acting and singing is uniformly strong, possibly because most of the original Broadway cast reprises their roles: The exceptions are Tracie Thoms as straitlaced lesbian lawyer Joanne and Rosario Dawson as the HIV-positive Latina heroine. Thoms proves herself a true triple threat in “Rent.” Her singing voice is far and away the strongest of the cast, her dancing is expert, and her acting is measured and effective—all of these talents are on display...
...Thin Blue Line HIV testing has come a long way since the mid-1990s, when patients had to wait as long as two weeks to learn whether they were HIV-positive and were given the news--which could be a death sentence--by a doctor, a nurse or a trained counselor. Now AIDS can be effectively treated with antiretroviral drugs, and FDA approval seems imminent for the first over-the-counter HIV test for use in the home: the OraQuick Advance. With a swab of saliva taken from the gums, the kit (currently sold to doctors and clinics for about...
...forum. Students came from Columbia, Yale, Tufts, Northeastern, Boston University, and the University of Massachusetts, as well as from HMS, the Harvard School of Public Health, and Harvard College.The forum consisted of panels, breakout sessions, and a networking lunch aimed at encouraging dialogue between students and faculty about HIV research and patient care.HMSAAI President Meera Kotagal, a second-year medical student at HMS, said her group first approached faculty members at the Harvard Division of AIDS last spring about the forum. “Students were very interested in HIV, but weren’t getting a chance to learn...
...well be the developing world's new literary superpower. Not bad for a country with 11 official languages and an education system still reeling from the inequities of the past - plus stubborn poverty, environmental degradation, corruption and an aids epidemic that has left 1 out of 5 adults hiv positive. But the literacy rate is a respectable 86%, and 5,000 new titles are published each year. Besides, as in India and other poor countries that export fiction, great troubles can make for great novels. Asked if the end of apartheid would take the zip out of South African fiction...
SENTENCED. SUNDIATA BASIR, 34, former D.C. deputy-mayoral aide who admitted to having had unprotected sex with at least seven women and girls since 1996, when he learned he was HIV-positive; to 21 years in prison; by a judge who dismissed his claim that he was in denial about his illness and called him a "violent, self-absorbed outlaw"; in Washington. Four of his partners, including a 15-year-old, later tested positive for HIV...