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...latest royal purchases - 10 new BMW X5 4.4i sport-utility vehicles, worth around $800,000, one for each of his 10 official wives - must qualify as a personal best. Africa's last absolute ruler presides over a land where 70% live in destitution and 38.8% are infected with HIV, the world's worst rate. And ordinary Swazis are increasingly fed up with Mswati's gold-plated insensitivity, profligate spending and authoritarian ways, says Jan Sithole, secretary-general of the Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions (S.F.T.U). While S.F.T.U members marched last month to protest a proposed new constitution that would...
...there a new superstrain of HIV? It's too early to tell whether the virus was responsible for the New York City man's quick progression to full-blown AIDS or his immune system was particularly vulnerable to rapid decline. The fact that he was a crystal methamphetamine user may have also played a role...
...health officials issue an alert on the basis of one case? The man had reportedly had hundreds of recent sexual partners, and if a new strain of HIV was indeed responsible for his quick onset of AIDS, then alerting people early--and emphasizing the importance of safe sex practices--could prevent the spread of the virus...
While previous studies in the 1990s have examined the cost effectiveness of HIV screenings, these two are the first to consider the effects of new treatments, said Dr. Douglas K. Owens, who co-authored the study with Sanders...
...Treatment certainly prolongs peoples’ lives,” said Owens, who estimated that beginning treatment with new medicines early instead of “getting treatment when you’re sick and show up at your doctor’s office” allows HIV-positive individuals to live about a year and a half longer...