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Some of the challenges go even deeper. "I did not realize how much women lack basic rights in this country," Dr. Julia Kim writes from Swaziland, north of Lesotho. Women traditionally turn over all their income to their husbands, she says, and defer to them on matters of treatment--a practice Kim struggled with when trying to convince one father that immediate care was needed for his daughter whose immune system had collapsed...
...manager Mark Lamphier. He won’t sign other books of his or memorabilia either, and will not be posing for photographs during the event. After his appearance, which is scheduled to take between one and two hours, Edwards will leave for Manchester, N.H. for another promotion, said Kim Rubey, a spokeswoman for Edwards’ One America Committee. The politician will not be speaking at the request of the bookstore, according to Rubey. “They were concerned that since it was lunchtime, they wanted to have as many people get signed copies as possible...
...realize how much women lack basic rights in this country," Julia Kim writes in an e-mail from Swaziland. "The lack of women's rights has greatly impacted the HIV epidemic here. The only property that a woman legally owns is whatever she has purchased with money that she has made on her own. But when speaking with women in Mpuluzi [a small town in rural Swaziland, close to the western border], many of them told us that whatever money was made from basketweaving was taken by their husbands...
...This lack of basic rights trickles down to the children who are often under women's care. "I saw a nine-year-old girl, who had just tested HIV-positive two weeks ago," continues Kim. "I had never seen a CD4 count so low; I could not believe she was still walking without blatant evidence of infection. I tried to impress upon her father the urgency of the situation, the full import of such an immunocompromised state, the dire need for ARVS, urging him to return as soon as possible for adherence counseling with a second caregiver. His response...
...Dealing with the still rampant stigma over HIV remains a challenge as well. "The nurses scold me for 'talking too loud about HIV' while I'm [on rounds seeing patients]," Sarah Kim writes a month after arriving in Lesotho. "Sometimes I feel like saying, 'well the majority of this ward is positive so we have to talk about it!' But I realize that I shouldn...