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...just activists who are making noise. In defiance of the national government, two of South Africa's nine provinces - Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal - have declared their intention to provide anti-AIDS drugs to all HIV-positive pregnant women and their children. The Congress of South African Trade Unions, a close political partner of the ruling African National Congress, allied itself with Achmat's drug purchase in Brazil. Many state doctors and health officials, especially in the rural areas, are quietly accepting offers of funding from the private sector and overseas to obtain antiretrovirals. "It's a revolt that...
...matter than accidents rank as the fifth-leading cause of death in the U.S., with car crashes claiming 500 children ages 5 to 9 each year, and injuring 95,000. It's certainly not important to note that car accidents are the leading cause of death and post-natal disability among children older than one year. (It'll also be handy if we can convince ourselves that heavily advertised beer and wine play no part at all in those accidents...
...largeish woman from Rhode Island who apparently suffered from a somewhat unpleasant crossing from Paris and felt the need to exact her vengeance upon Falstaff, grumbling her woes to her companions in a valiant attempt to drown out his catechism. Leaving the event, I was sufficiently embarrassed of my natal affiliation to go so far as to pose as being, of all things, French. Clearly dire straits. Upon my return to the land of the free and the home of the brazen, my indignant rage at our collective theatrical impropriety softened somewhat in the absence of a ready comparison...
Individual doulas follow their own routines, and Guralnick includes two pre-natal visits with a couple to get acquainted and go over options. In a meeting in the Suris' apartment--Ash's first with the doula --Guralnick provides the couple with documents and reviews topics like pain medication and various interventions that can be used during labor and delivery. Debra sits on the massive 75-in. ball to get accustomed to how it feels. (Women in labor often find the ball more comfortable than a chair.) She guides them through massage techniques and positions that ease labor pain, demonstrating...
World editor Joshua Cooper Ramo came to understand the problems of AIDS in South Africa particularly well in December, when he traveled to KwaZulu-Natal to work in a swamped but heroic AIDS hospice. Working as a volunteer instead of as a journalist gave him an unusually close look at what it was like to live with and die of AIDS. "I'm a big believer that if you see a crime being committed and you don't do something about it, you are as guilty as the criminal," he says. "What's going on in Africa right...