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...affairs for media relations at HMS, said that although the center’s “broad and diverse” portfolio of research might include drug experimentation, the primate lab did not addict its animals to drugs.The primate lab is “currently working toward an HIV vaccine and other critical human health advances,” according to a statement released by HMS, as well as exploring health concerns of “non-human primates at the center and elsewhere, which is part of the center’s core mission.”PETA...
...been informed on time, but we were not kept in the picture." Nor does India's record on dampening the spread of other diseases inspire confidence. While some southern states, which are generally richer and have better healthcare, have won commendation from health experts for their efforts to contain HIV and AIDS, for example, others in the poorer north are accused of covering it up. Last year India surpassed South Africa as the country with the world's highest HIV/AIDS population, with 5.127 million people infected. And yet by April last year, two of India's most populous states, Bihar...
...estimated poultry population of 1.1 billion birds, many of them sharing living space with people?the same epidemiological powder keg that enabled bird flu to cause so much damage in much of Southeast Asia. Avian-flu experts see impoverished Africa, with its inefficient governments and millions of immuno-compromised HIV infectees, as a perfect breeding ground for a pandemic...
...least. This is because the architects and professors of the course have taken on an even greater task than inseminating a lecture hall full of students with a basic knowledge of biochemical sciences. By basing the understanding of scientific concepts in real-world issues, specifically HIV and AIDS, students of the course cannot close their eyes to neither the scientific nor humanitarian side of the public health crisis that faces our world today.AIDS is the problem that everyone knows exists but no one knows how to solve. Perhaps this is because AIDS is a global issue that defies categorization...
...women are getting pregnant in a culture in which single motherhood is still taboo. A survey by Shanghai medical researcher Yan Fengting found that 65% of urban women undergoing abortions in 2004 were single, compared with just 25% in 1999. Rates of sexually transmitted diseases are skyrocketing too, with HIV infections growing most quickly among Chinese 15 to 24 years old. Brothels barely disguised as beauty salons crowd the streets of China's big cities, while certain suburbs are known as "concubine villages" because of their high concentration of mistresses...