Word: hiv
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Lo’s goal for the past year has been to clone the main enzyme involved in reverse transcription, the process by which viruses, including HIV, make DNA and begin taking over human cells...
...bribe for him in a French arms deal. Related charges were filed against Zuma on Dec. 14. And though he was acquitted in a rape trial in 2006, his testimony revealed shocking attitudes about sex and AIDS, including an admission that he had unprotected sex with an HIV-positive woman but showered afterward to reduce the risk of infection...
...filed papers in the Constitutional Court expanding similar charges against Zuma himself. And in 2006, he was in court again, acquitted on a rape charge, although his testimony nonetheless revealed questionable attitudes on sex, including an admission that he had unprotected sex with a woman he knew to be HIV positive...
...distribution programs deserve to be supported on the federal level for their potential to save lives, which should be the first aim of governments when approaching public health or drug policy. The debate over naloxone is reminiscent of the debate over needle exchanges. Created to staunch the spread of HIV via contaminated syringes, needle exchanges allow heroin users to exchange used syringes for sterile ones. Although some have argued that needle exchanges facilitate drug use, they have spread based on the false notion that the societal harms of HIV are far greater than those due to heroin. Critics of such...
...profit organization that helps young people affected by the 1994 Rwandan genocide attain a university education. Farmer and Ellis, whose organizations have worked together in Rwanda, emphasized that international aid should be flexible and should rely on locals, not outsiders, to implement change. When working to fight HIV infection of infants in Rwanda, “There was only one American, and the rest were locals that we trained,†Farmer said. Saving lives depends on more than medicine, he said. In Rwanda, casserole pots, water jugs, and kerosene stoves were the keys to ensuring that mothers would...