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Michele R. Decker, who will be leading the case study on sex trafficking and HIV AIDS in South Asia, said that all courses taught under the alternative curriculum are entirely participatory and free of dreary PowerPoint presentations...
...know HIV causes AIDS.' BARBARA HOGAN, South Africa's new Health Minister, reversing a decade of discredited government policies on the virus...
...what she will do as health minister: "HIV and AIDS has to be an absolute priority for government...
This week, South African health minister Barbara Hogan got her country up to speed with the rest of the world with one statement: "We know that HIV causes AIDS." For years, South African officials had denied the link between the HIV and AIDS, and even recommended unconventional treatments like eating beetroot instead of taking antiretroviral medication. Hogan is a South African native with a record for being hard-headed, independent, and for standing up for her convictions...
...Lowdown: With its diversity of perspectives and voices, this collection provides a uniquely intimate glimpse into a disease that is either sterilized by statistics or ignored altogether. Each story reveals a government and culture that, like so many other nations, still denies HIV's impact. Yet even with its pages filled with so much injustice and pain, the book also contains its fair share of triumphant moments. An HIV-positive doctor who fought for - and won - his constitutional right to marry a "negative" woman; a group of HIV-positive children who found a home when no one else would take...