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...protected, and the population should be protected from the soldiers as well, because most of the troops come from places where AIDS is a problem. But it's hard when you're sitting in a country that denies there is a crisis." Gabriel Madieye sees the result of that neglect. The head of the Shepherd's Hospice for HIV-positive patients consults more than 100 new HIV patients a month. But because the tiny clinic has only two beds, he feels it is unfair to admit anyone because it will mean turning away dozens more. So he gives outpatients basic...
...session raised serious cultural and political differences. Some Muslim countries, for example, strenuously objected to any references to gays or prostitutes in the conference's declarations, and AIDS activists expressed concern that the focus of Annan's fund would be on prevention of the spread of the disease and neglect the issue of treatment for those already afflicted with HIV. Such discord did little to dampen Annan's optimism over the progress made at the event: "In the last two days some painful differences have been brought into the open," he said at its conclusion. "But that is the best...
...Besides, the '90s may or not have been "eight years of neglect" from Washington. But on Wall Street, they weren...
...knew that a top predictor of a child's success is parental involvement in his or her education. But Stonewall faced a problem familiar to many schools in the suburbs, where parents in two-career families commute long distances to demanding jobs--and where a quiet kind of educational neglect often breeds mediocrity...
...legendarily hard to budge with any consistency, any summer fixes either side can come up with will likely be cosmetic. But Republicans drive SUVs too, and if Bush is expecting them to take all their summer driving pain on the memory of Bill Clinton and his "eight years of neglect" - all while steadfastly keeping their eyes on the "long-term picture" - he may not be around long enough to see all those new refineries get built...