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...remote peasant villages of China's Henan province. But when he visited there in 1999, as a favor to a fellow doctor whose patients were dying from a mysterious disease, it didn't take Gui long to make a diagnosis. The stories were all the same: first the husband would fall ill, then his wife, and after a few months, both would be dead, covered in sores and dark, wine-colored blotches. Gui had stumbled on a full-fledged AIDS epidemic, something he had only read about in medical journals. While in school, he says quietly, "I had no interest...
...problem of mobility is often overlooked by health-care planners wrestling with African epidemics, but it's one that consumes Barry and Andrea Coleman, a husband-and-wife team with decidedly nonmedical résumés. Barry, 59, worked as a motorcycling correspondent and feature writer for the Guardian newspaper in Britain. Andrea's motorcycle roots run deeper: she was a pro rider for five years and is the granddaughter of a race organizer, daughter of an engineer and widow of a rider who died in a 1979 crash. In the years following the accident, she married Barry and went...
...first. Toward the end of the program, after she had reviewed how HIV is spread, she told the participants that she was infected. "They were shocked," Okaalet says. "She didn't look like somebody with HIV." They were even more stunned to learn that she contracted HIV from her husband, who was a minister, and that he became infected after having sex with a woman he knew had AIDS because he had been counseling her about her illness. Bridget's husband was too scared and embarrassed to tell his wife what he had done. After listening to her story...
Both Bridget and her husband have since died. But the efforts to educate ministers and their congregations and help them face the epidemic continue. "For a long time the church was very quiet," Okaalet says. "We are beginning to respond, but we have to do more...
...Rumor around Hollywood is that Gwyneth Paltrow is pregnant again. No word from Gwyneth and her husband Chris Martin, but word from the inside is that they've been spending hours watching the Food Network to decide what to name the baby." --JIMMY KIMMEL...