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While a scrap of paper is typically used to jot down a phone number or spit out a piece of chewing gum, it may soon be used to diagnose illnesses like HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis...
...feel superior by tuning in to watch someone being voted out of a room. Most powerful is that, at their intimate best, the shows can out-dramatize fictional TV drama. In The Real World's third season, 20-year-old Pedro Zamora, a gay educator, came out as HIV-positive to his housemates, one of whom harassed him; married a fellow AIDS educator on camera; and sparked an enduring national conversation. In a new series, Discovery's Ice Road Truckers, viewers are introduced to men who risk their lives in Northwest Canada, braving dangerous roads, frozen lakes and white...
...correction comes less than a year after the United Nations made a similar announcement, acknowledging last November that its AIDS-battling agency, UNAIDS, had overstated its estimates of the global HIV burden by about 6 million cases; that agency revised its numbers also based on newer and more accurate surveys. At the time, the U.N. came under fire from critics for inflating its estimates in order to exaggerate the urgency of the epidemic - and to spur bigger donations...
There may have been some truth to that argument. Money funneled to HIV and malaria control has soared in the last decade, to almost $9 billion and roughly $1 billion a year, respectively (those figures, too, are hazy estimates), although in the case of HIV especially, money has not always been channeled into disease-control programs based on the best scientific evidence. (That's particularly true for politically sensitive - and, therefore, under-funded or ignored - interventions that aim to prevent high-risk sex and drug abuse...
...village of Gunura, Muchaneta Makuyana is on the verge of dying, because she has lost access to her food rations from Africare, an organization that provides home-based care for HIV and AIDS sufferers. Lying on a reed mat on the floor, Makuyana's skeletal frame heaves as she coughs weakly. "I could be dying anytime," she says. "Africare used to help me with food, but there is nothing anymore. I can no longer do anything on my own, but rely on others. Sometimes they leave me without any care...