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...other serious candidate, New York City, seems to be making only a half-hearted bid. The Mile High City is seen as a good jumping-off point for a West eyed hungrily by Democrats. Of course, Denver has long been a Democratic stronghold - with Mayors John Hickenlooper and Federico Pena and Congresswomen Pat Schroeder and Diana DeGette - though the state of Colorado can tilt red or blue, depending upon the whims of independents. The past election marked a transition from Republican Governor Bill Owens to Democrat Bill Ritter. Nevertheless, Denver's effort to win the '08 convention has been stalled...
...manslaughter. I agree, there should be another trial,” said 14-year-old Ivan Pena, who works for a convenience store across from where the crime occurred...
...When the protease inhibitors became available in 1996, Pena was one of many young AIDS patients who jumped on them. Since childhood, she says, the number of drugs that she took just continued to get larger and larger. "There were more pills at every birthday," she says. "As my weight increased, they would up the dose." The protease inhibitors were powerful but the side effects were brutal. "Since I was on medications for so long, it almost seemed like second nature to lose my appetite and be nauseated," she says...
...Because of those side effects, Pena, in consultation with her doctor, has decided to stop taking her medications for a while, but anticipates she will have to go back on them soon. While she realizes that her decision is controversial, and not for everyone, she notes that since she is part of the first generation of kids who will spend their lives taking ARVs, they and their doctors will also have to take responsibility for what their lifelong regimen looks like. "There is an ongoing battle between researchers and HIV," she says, "and there is still much trial and error...
...hard. Sometimes I don't want to take them, but I know I have to. I want to educate other teens and adults out there about how HIV positive people can still be normal, and act normal." By living successful lives as normal teens, girls like Saleem and Pena are doing much more that - they are living beacons of hope for the millions of children born with HIV in the developing world...