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...Oriol, The Family Van has been providing free health screenings at six sites in the Boston neighborhoods with the highest rates of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. A small staff of health professionals regularly sees residents like Miller for preventative screenings ranging from blood pressure checks to confidential HIV testing and counseling...
...newest wife, Thobeka Madiba Zuma, reading: "Just Brought One Wife, Mr. Zuma?" The Mail also commented on what it called Zuma's "colorful life," which consists of "five wives, a love child with the daughter of one of his political allies, a criminal trial for alleged rape of an HIV-positive woman and corruption charges." Not stopping there, the paper reported that Zuma had paid "a sort of tribal deposit on a future bride." (See pictures of South Africa...
...Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong, thus legitimizing the latter tyrants. Such untempered comparison is irresponsible, dangerous, and wrong. It leads to such invidious situations as The Family’s accused support for Ugandan politician David Bahati, who is proposing a bill containing the death penalty for HIV-infected people who have sex with someone of the same gender. Although The Family has since distanced itself from this scandal, one of its members could very easily follow its logic to support this bill...
...Africa and beyond. The accusation that he is undermining his own AIDS policy is more damaging, though. Zuma already stoked outrage in 2006 when, on trial for rape - a charge of which he was eventually acquitted - he admitted to having unprotected sex with a woman he knew to be HIV positive. The media reported that he later said he showered to clean himself of the disease, though Zuma claims his remarks were misunderstood and that he showered after sex, not after being exposed to HIV...
...Zuma's reputation was restored considerably after his election, when he reversed years of denial of the AIDS epidemic by his predecessor Thabo Mbeki - Mbeki even disputed that HIV caused AIDS - and set targets of a 50% cut in new HIV infections and 80% coverage of antiretroviral drugs in South Africa by 2011. In his statement on Wednesday, Zuma said it was "mischievous to argue that" by his actions "I have changed or undermined the government's stance on the HIV and AIDS campaign. I will not compromise on the campaign. Rather, we will intensify our efforts." (Read "South Africa...