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Students crowded into corridors of the Center for Population and Development Studies yesterday to hear Presley Professor of Social Medicine Paul Farmer discuss his pioneering model for treating infectious diseases in developing countries. A captivated audience listened as Farmer, an internationally acclaimed physician and public health activist, explained how his HIV Equity Initiative is expanding its prevention and care programs to impoverished rural communities to Rwanda. The intiative, which is part of Farmer’s “Partners in Health” charity, was the first program in the world to offer free antiretroviral therapy and has been...
DIED. Helen Cohn, 92, who helped her husband and business partner Nudie create garish, rhinestone-studded garb favored by glittery entertainers from the 1940s to the '80s; in Valencia, Calif. Among their most famous creations was a $10,000 gold lam suit for Elvis Presley (the profit for Nudie's Rodeo Tailors: $9,950). The ensembles were most popular among country stars like Roy Rogers and Buck Owens, who wore Nudies to their graves. The Cohns' motto: "It's better to be looked over than overlooked...
...facilitates the discovery of love for the adults around him. Within this internationally acclaimed South African film, Hood brilliantly finds a sympathetic, yet not syrupy sweet, way to embrace life’s tragedies and also showcase its victories. Street-hooligan-turned-gang-leader Tsotsi, played by Presley Chweneyagae in his debut role, is from a township (ghetto) outside of Johannesburg, South Africa’s golden metropolis. Tsotsi (which in Afrikaans means “Thug”) bumbles out of his existentially meaningless life of violence when he steals a car and only later discovers...
Farmer is the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at the Medical School, where he teaches in the Department of Social Medicine...
...disease’s discovery, as well as the 10th anniversary of antiretroviral therapy. Hildebrand has documented the HIV/AIDS epidemic worldwide for around 20 years, a task that has taken him to 39 countries and produced 23 documentaries about AIDS, the filmmaker said yesterday. Dr. Paul E. Farmer, Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at the Medical School and the founder of the Boston-based Partners in Health, an organization that offers health care to the poor, said that the donation would equip the university with “information on the history of a modern epidemic...