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...entry into the European Union on Jan. 1 should have been one of its finest moments. But for Foreign Minister and Deputy PM Ivailo Kalfin, that glory has been overshadowed by crisis. Two weeks earlier, five Bulgarian nurses were sentenced to death in Libya for deliberately infecting children with HIV, a charge widely believed to be groundless. Kalfin discussed Bulgaria's highs and lows with Time's Violeta Simeonova Stanicic in Sofia...
...result of its tropical climate, its specific types of mosquitoes and its limitless mosquito-breeding sites. Children are struck down in unmatched numbers. And Africa's disease toll from malaria may be even higher than previously recognized. Recent research has found that malaria infection increases the likelihood that an HIV-infected individual will transmit the AIDS virus to others. Many millions are also infected simultaneously with malaria and worm infections, multiplying the disease burden...
...Harvard’s new study abroad program in Botswana, which focuses on HIV in Africa, students will conduct lab research while taking courses in African politics and the Setswana language at the University of Botswana...
...them. Although weak health infrastructure and unreliable drug delivery systems are contributory factors to the current “access gap,” high medicine prices remain a primary barrier to treatment for the destitute sick. In Thailand, for example, an 18-fold reduction in the price of HIV treatment has allowed the Thai government to expand its national treatment program from 3,000 to 85,000 individuals in the past four years...
...since 1866. It's a testament to Victorian England's ability to construct grand solutions to big problems. That's a skill the modern world could use, says Johnson, noting that some 2 billion people are still at risk because they do not have access to clean water. "Unlike hiv or global warming, this is a problem we fundamentally know how to solve," he says. Failure to do so is a scandal worth kicking up a stink about...