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...leave her small Nigerian village of Biliru and move in with relatives in Lagos so she could go to school. But the dream turned into a nightmare when her uncle raped her. She fled back to the village, where things got even worse: Ishaya, now 24, tested positive for HIV, and when she went public with the diagnosis, all hell broke loose. "Everywhere I went," she says, "fingers were being pointed at me. There was a day I was walking to the marketplace, and the entire street was deserted for me." Ostracized by her family, she moved to an abandoned...
...tougher. In the wake of the first African summit on HIV/AIDS, which took place in Nigeria in late 2000, Nigeria's President, Olusegun Obasanjo, held photo ops in which he hugged HIV-positive people, one of whom was Ishaya. Weeks later, she was horrified when posters, newspaper ads and giant billboards appeared all over the country, showing her embracing the President. A rumor began circulating that he had given her half a million dollars--not entirely preposterous, given the corruption in Nigeria's government. Beggars besieged her, and relatives, among them those who had shunned her, began demanding help, even...
...agencies. So the demand for a treatment--until, at least, a vaccine becomes available, and probably well after--isn't likely to subside. It will continue to draw manufacturers considerably less concerned than is Roche about its intellectual property rights. Cipla, an Indian generics manufacturer that already sells cheap HIV drugs to African countries, now plans to begin selling a generic version of Tamiflu at cut-rate prices--and says it will do so probably within three months, regardless of whether the Swiss drug firm grants it a license. Roche says it is willing to talk to Cipla, but hasn...
...Uganda's use of condoms in the past to fight aids [Sept. 26] noted the controversy over whether the Ugandan government is now promoting a "message of abstinence based on religious dogma" in response to U.S. pressure. From 1992 to 2002, Uganda had remarkable success in reducing its hiv rate because of a number of factors, including strong national political leadership, comprehensive prevention strategies and promotion of condom use and safe sex. The abstinence-only approach appeared only after the U.S. started exporting that ideology after 2001. U.S. funding for hiv prevention in Uganda has abstinence-only strings attached, resulting...
Community service representative Rebecca L. Smith ’08 said that the club will volunteer with New England Scores, a camp that combines literacy and athletics, and Community Servings, a service that brings food to the homes of people infected with HIV or AIDS...