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...what many of the developers and buyers don't know or refuse to acknowledge is that Roatan has the second highest incidence of AIDS in Honduras, after the port city of San Pedro Sula. Health care workers on the island say that one in seven people is infected with HIV on Roatan (the figure for the United States is one in 250). But this is a conservative estimate, they stress, because local superstitions and shame still prevent many who may be infected from seeking help...
...Laura wants more: to adopt imperiled children. They already have one: seven-year-old Simon (Roger Princep), a sweet, cheerful, sensitive boy who knows neither that he is adopted nor that he was born HIV positive. Surely Laura and Carlos love him at least as much as any birth child. But they are both beguiled and troubled by Simon's affinity for imaginary friends: Watson and Pepe, whose invisible eccentricities (as related by Simon) they've got used to, and a new companion, Tomas, whose influence seems much more malignant...
...farms?’” Pasricha said. Pasricha recalls responding that she sought alternative uses for tobacco, working in a biotechnology lab that summer and arriving at the discovery that “the tobacco plant is very helpful for developing a vaccine for one type of HIV.” On a 2004 summer trip to India, Pasricha worked with her sister Sarina, who had graduated from the College that year, to develop the Global Youth Health, Education, and Leadership Program, or HELP. With funding from Tobacco-Free Kids, a non-profit organization, Pasricha said that...
...pages, is heavy with an impulse towards that vague notion of “substance” that was pleasingly absent from the first issue. That impulse is where “The Truth About Bottled Water” comes from; same with the piece on women in HIV advocacy and Sebastian’s six-pager on relationships on “How to Live Happily Ever After.” All of it’s pretty good—spring, for whatever reason, makes much more sense for Freeze than winter—and any complaints about...
...about 3,000 people die from it. "It is a significant health issue," says Dr. Robert Haddad, clinical director of the Head and Neck Oncology Program at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Haddad says that public awareness of the HPV virus needs to be just like that of HIV because the virus causes multiple types of cancer...