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...Jaspreet Singh on the lack of care for children with HIV. "Pharmaceutical companies have little incentive to develop, or produce, pediatric medications because there are so few HIV positive children in the developed world," the author notes while recounting his visit to one of the few "care homes" that exist to take care of Indian children with HIV. Of an eight-year-old girl named Mani who lay dying there, a nurse explained, "Hospitals are the worst places for people living with HIV in this country. And Mani is a child after all. ... She likes people around her. She likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Famous Authors on AIDS in India | 10/14/2008 | See Source »

...makers of Trojan condoms and carried out by Sperling’s BestPlaces—graded schools on the availability and quality of sexual health resources on campus. The report evaluated the school in eleven categories—including web site, lecture and outreach, sexual assault services, HIV and STI testing, advice column and condom availability—and its findings make it clear that as far as sexual health education goes at Harvard, there’s still much work to be done. College is a time when many students—particularly Harvard students, many of whom prioritized...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Sentimental Education | 10/6/2008 | See Source »

...doesn't have to be this way. TB is an entirely preventable and treatable disease. And the drug-resistant strains beginning to emerge in Africa, Russia, China and India, say experts, are epidemics of our own making. Unlike HIV, the tubercle bacillus succumbs to powerful medications. But these drugs are not where they need to be, and when they are, spotty monitoring and poor health infrastructure make it hard to ensure that patients take their daily doses for the six months that are needed to eradicate the infection--all of which encourages drug-resistant strains to survive and keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Forgotten Plague | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...really is never too late. Here I am at 70 and my life is turning around and opening up.”Even after gay students began coming out about their sexuality on campus, their experience was often difficult.Kevin B. Jennings ’85 recalls the devastation of HIV in the gay community throughout the 1980s. His freshman-year roommate, first Harvard boyfriend, and a best friend have all died from AIDS.“I can never step foot on this campus without thinking about my friends from the Class of 1985 who are gone...

Author: By Mac Mcanulty, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gay Caucus Marks 25th Anniversary | 9/28/2008 | See Source »

Since 1970, MAPS has been offering health and social services to Portuguese speakers in Massachusetts, ranging from immigrant social services and educational programs to health services and HIV and domestic violence prevention programs...

Author: By Danielle J. Kolin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Portuguese Speakers Hold Mass. Voter Drive | 9/28/2008 | See Source »

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