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...monastery, the floors are puddled with blood, the thin dormitory walls perforated with holes from rubber bullets. The raids enrage the people. The lives of Burmese Buddhists are intertwined with the lives of the monks. Monks preside over marriages, chant over the dead; they shelter orphans, care for HIV patients and help schoolchildren cram for their exams. A devout Buddhist will not even step on the shadow of a monk. With soldiers and police still inside Ngwe Kyar Yan, hundreds of local people surround it. "We had no weapons," a neighbor tells me. "Everyone just wanted to protect the monks...
...Health Minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge. She had taken steps to restore some credibility to South Africa's HIV/AIDS program, which had suffered under her boss, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, best known for her recommendation of garlic and beetroot as AIDS treatments. And Mbeki himself has expressed skepticism that HIV causes AIDS. But Madlala-Routledge's true crime, say close observers, was lack of loyalty to Tshabalala-Msimang, a key Mbeki ally. Tshabalala-Msimang hardly helped her patron's case when, in September, she went to court to try to stop the Sunday Times from publishing copies of her medical...
...classified as narcissism, not true activism, a categorization she borrowed from Bill Maher. Coggins fairly paraphrased the TV host, but provided an obscured description of her classmates’ actions. Coggins contrasted a campaign that was, in every sense of the word, effective, with the recent “HIV Positive” stunt, praising those behind the latter for resisting the “inflated sense of self.” A hunger striker is many things, but self-indulgent isn’t one of them. Most Harvard students would be hard pressed to name three...
...ordinary Burmese are suffering. Educational funding has dried up, and the World Health Organization estimates that the junta annually spends a maximum of $10 per person on health care. As a result, killer diseases like malaria and tuberculosis run rampant, and roughly half a million people are infected with HIV. Nearly one-third of children under five years of age are malnourished; of those who are healthy, some rural youngsters are forced to toil as child labor. The urban middle class doesn't fare too much better. Although Burma's main export is natural gas, most Rangoon residents can only...
Earlier this term when a number of students from the Harvard AIDS Coalition donned “HIV Positive” shirts around campus, it was a sight that could have sent former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist into a state of panic. And it also sparked a campus-wide debate about the merits of wearing such a controversial slogan...