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...guarantee of receiving proper follow-up care. "We have heard of places in China where the drugs are delivered but there is no training of the doctors in how to use them," says Ho. "We stress to them that drug treatment for AIDS is not like food relief, where the food is just dropped...
...broaden the scope of his efforts, Ho enlisted the support of the newly appointed director of the province's Bureau of Health, Chen Juemin. Chen, to Ho's relief, is intent on addressing the AIDS epidemic in his province and is eager to have Yunnan serve as a testing ground for programs that Minister of Health Wu in Beijing will consider for the rest of the country. "This situation will not just go away," Chen told TIME. "We probably lost a chance [of controlling AIDS] because we did not open up publicly about our HIV work in the early 1980s...
...launched a blood drive and paid donors for their plasma. It was a program intended to benefit all Chinese--the poor by giving them a way to supplement their income, and the rest of China by replenishing the national blood banks' dangerously low stocks. "It was like a poverty-relief program," says a Henan resident who gave plasma in 1993 and became infected. Through campaigns in the villages and schools, the government encouraged rural farmers and factory workers to sell their plasma for 40 yuan ($5). The good intentions backfired when "bloodheads," as some of the unofficial blood collectors came...
...relief to see him made small enough to handcuff because the phantom had become too big, and you can?t bring peace to a haunted house. Bribes and threats and rockets and satellites had failed to find him, even with the world?s mightiest army conducting the manhunt. The President had stopped talking about him, as if he were superstitious or trying to change the subject. People bought Saddam golf balls, Saddam pi?atas, voodoo dolls, to satisfy the need to hit back and not feel helpless every time he taunted his hunters with a new videotape to rally his followers...
...interior decorating and fashion aren’t the only elements of Gladden J. Pappin that scream conservative. Ideological differences between Pappin and the rest of the student body were brought into sharp relief in December of last year when he sent a letter to The Crimson, entitled “Secret Court Rightly Punished Immorality,” in which he denounced Harvard’s tolerance and support for homosexuals, about whom he wrote, “[their] activities are not merely immoral but perverted and unnatural.” With one letter to the editor, the floodgates...