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...higher education. In this handy timeline, FM takes a look back at how other recent historical milestones affected our social life. Title IX (1972) Female athletes start to balance out the female nerds. This creates negative side effects for Wellesley girls, as they get displaced by the tougher competition. HIV Awareness (1980S) As one alum from the 70s recently explained, “Let’s just say things were a lot looser before AIDS.” I’ll leave it at that. Drinking Age Changed to 21 (1984) This was undeniably devastating, but there...
...office and director of organizing strategy at Faith in Public Life. People's is located in Petworth - a mixed-race, less-affluent neighborhood in northwest D.C. - and Stief says it's very oriented to social justice: "They have a lot of international missions, sending members to Africa to do HIV work, for instance." Though there is another black UCC church in town, Stief warns that its pastor might be too "far left" for the First Family - "I'm not sure Obama would go to that church after the experience with Jeremiah Wright." The only downside to People's: the well...
...does, except without the dangers. Such a breakthrough, if it proves possible, would be "decades rather than years away," according to Ade Fakoya, a London-based clinician and senior adviser to the nonprofit Aids Alliance. The treatment would also likely prove too expensive to implement in developing countries where HIV rates are highest, although some proponents of gene therapy say it could eventually be done cheaply through an injection, as with vaccines. (Read a TIME cover story on AIDS...
...Noble of the British AIDS charity Avert says recent setbacks for research into an AIDS vaccine, along with multiple false hopes in the search for a cure, have caused many in the HIV activism community to view Huetter's experiment warily. For many AIDS activists, bone-marrow transplantation is a loaded procedure that evokes a traumatic past: before antivirals were widely introduced in the 1990s, it was one of the aggressive and often fatal procedures doctors tried in their desperate effort to halt the epidemic; some of these transplants even used marrow harvested from baboons...
...light of that pessimism about curing HIV in patients, Huetter's announcement was barely discussed at a major international HIV conference in Glasgow today, according to Fakoya, who was attending the event. He said greater attention was paid to more prosaic methods of defense, such as early identification and testing programs. "I'm in the conservative camp - I don't think there will be a cure," he says. "But if you look at antiviral treatment, data was provided at this conference confirming that you can live 30 years on [antiviral-drug] therapy, especially if it's initiated soon after infection...