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...wound up doing much more. Sesame Street is now the longest street on the planet. It runs from Harlem to Honolulu; on to Obama's childhood home in Indonesia, where Jalan Sesama celebrates unity through diversity; through South Africa, where one Muppet is HIV positive; through Israel and Palestine and Egypt, where girls are told how important it is that they keep reading and learning. It creates citizens of a highly globalized, post-racial world. "The only kids who can identify along racial lines with the Muppets," genius puppeteer Jim Henson observed, "have to be either green or orange...
...schools. The issues presented by global health, energy, and the environment also cross the boundaries of the natural sciences, engineering, the social sciences, and the humanities. For example, the dissemination of antiretroviral drugs in South Africa has, until recently, been inhibited by benighted leadership that denied the role of HIV in causing AIDS; similarly, the World Health Organization’s attempts to eradicate polio have run into ethnic and religious barriers in northern Nigeria and parts of India. Thus biological discovery and technology development can be stymied if not coupled with an understanding of political science, anthropology, and religion...
...services are capable of both handling a crisis well, but also cutting back on necessary services. UHS handled the Swine Flu scare adequately with constant notifications and small steps to prevent infection. It wasn’t so adept at handling sexual health, however, as Harvard ended of anonymous HIV testing program. In a peculiar move the University moved backwards in its support of sexual health and awareness. The question of recognition for the Harvard Reserve Officers Training Corps also worked its way into the conversation this year. University policy still states that as long as the U.S. military continues...
Over 20 students gathered in front of the Holyoke Center Wednesday evening to protest Harvard University Health Services’ decision to discontinue anonymous HIV testing. Waving signs that read “My right to privacy includes my right to anonymity” and “I’m pro-testing,” the group of students from the College as well as several graduate schools assembled by Massachusetts Ave. after abandoning their plans to conduct a “test-in.” Protestors had originally planned to request HIV tests en masse...
...opened The Crimson on December 7, 1996, you would have discovered a news feature about a student trying to find room in his schedule to get to Boston for an HIV test. At that time, Harvard did not offer anonymous HIV testing, so students looking for anonymity while staying in control of their health were sent packing. It’s rare that health care goes backward, but University Health Services’s recent decision to end anonymous testing (instituted in 1996) is one of those times. Effective August 1, only confidential testing will be provided by UHS, meaning...