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...Harvard was sending fewer than 15 percent of its students abroad. In comparison, Dartmouth sends the most students abroad during the academic year, with 39 percent of its student population going overseas. Brown comes in second with a 35 percent study-abroad rate, and UPenn gets third place with 30 percent. If prizes were awarded, Harvard would barely get a participation sticker, let alone a place on the medal podium...
...attendance of the celebrity pair, who were reportedly coming to see Haven accept a designation as the International Relations Council’s Senior Honorary Advisor for 2009, was “90 percent certain” yesterday morning, according to International Relations On Campus co-director Courtney L. Blair ’10. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...result, the stigma AIDS carries today in China remains strong - and potentially dangerous. In a 2008 survey by the China AIDS Media Partnership, of the more than 6000 people surveyed, nearly 48% said they wouldn't knowingly eat with an HIV positive person. Thirty percent said HIV positive children should not be allowed to study at the same schools as uninfected children, and 40% said they would not willingly share workspace with a colleague they knew was HIV positive. The government has taken steps to improve these attitudes, including implementing an anti-discrimination law in March 2006, but perceptions like...
...government still relies heavily on members of the gay community to educate themselves. Sex workers also lack access to programs and materials they need to keep themselves safe. According to a November 2008 Beijing municipal report, of the 90,000 female sex workers in the capital, only 46.5 percent reported using condoms. With payments in some areas of the country as low as $5 per customer, many sex workers can't afford effective protection, and free condoms distributed in government programs are often low quality. "We hear the girls complain all the time that the condoms break when they...
...Today, UNAIDS estimates that AIDS awareness programs are currently only reaching between 20 and 40 percent of China's at-risk communities. "China is a whole continent. It's 1.3 billion people," Schwartländer says. "The big question is always, 'How do we make sure these good, sensible policies and ideas are really implemented throughout the whole country?'" It is not enough to have good policies in Beijing; the work has to happen in the provinces and the communities where 60% of the nation actually lives. "Unless you understand how you can translate the policies into the realities...