Word: hiv
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...team of about 15 Young Heroes gathered in a circle, trading colored candies with one another. Each student started with 10 colored candies and directions on whether they could trade freely or on a restricted basis. But one student had only green candies, which, unknown to the group, symbolized HIV. After about 10 minutes of talking and joking, the group leader called the team to order, directed the students to count their colored candies and revealed what the green ones represented. The kids were shocked to discover how many of them ended up with a green candy. They then discussed...
...09—runs through March 18 at the Loeb Ex. The play, written by Nicky Silver, focuses on a wildly dysfunctional family comprised of the borderline psychotic Emma (Lara C.A. Markstein ’10), who remembers nothing about her past due to possibly-justified repression; her HIV-positive, embittered, and somewhat vengeful brother, Todd (Michael R. Wolfe ’09); and their parents, Grace and Arthur. Arthur (Dan G. Rosen ’10) is financially successful, emotionally distant, and possibly more attached to Emma than he ought to be: to use a favorite phrase...
...Years of life expectancy for women in Swaziland, where the HIV infection rate is nearly 40% and life spans are the lowest on earth...
...shed her label as the naughty twin. The President's blond daughter, perhaps best known for taking creative license with her driver's license, is writing Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope, a nonfiction book due this fall about a 17-year-old single mother who is HIV-positive. Bush, 25, who has been interning in Latin America for UNICEF (which will get a portion of the proceeds), says she hopes to "motivate young Americans to increase their awareness of other young people around the world." If only she had connections, the book could...
...front, however, is in stark contrast to the slower progress being made on an AIDS vaccine. "What we're seeing now with ARVs is the result of investments that were made 10 years ago," says Dr. Seth Berkley, president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, a leading HIV vaccine developer. "Funding for vaccine research has always fallen far short of that devoted to drug development, and for a period, there was very little happening in the vaccine field. Had there been a sustained vaccine effort simultaneous with the drug effort, we probably would have a vaccine...