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...work past a house where a teenager lives alone tending young siblings without any source of income. At another house, the wife was branded a whore when she asked her husband to use a condom, beaten silly and thrown into the streets. Over there lies a man desperately sick without access to a doctor or clinic or medicine or food or blankets or even a kind word. At work you eat with colleagues, and every third one is already fatally ill. You whisper about a friend who admitted she had the plague and whose neighbors stoned her to death. Your...
...after six years, I have no speeches or intellectual response. I am just absolutely sick of hearing about Mansfield and of the warm feeling of bile that seeps into my stomach every time I hear about his unsubstantiated statements. Where is his evidence...
Many microcredit schemes encourage clients to set aside some of the extra income generated by the loan as savings. This can be used for medical bills or to pay school fees if the parents get sick. "Without the loans I would have had to look for another way to make money," says Florence Muriungi, 40, who sings in a Kampala jazz band and whose husband died of AIDS four years ago. Muriungi, who cares for eight children--five of her own and three her sister left when she too died of AIDS--uses the money to pay school fees...
With infection rates in Zimbabwe topping 25%, the nation's medical services are overloaded. The task of coping has fallen to community and family members. Your donation will train local workers to provide families with the knowledge and supplies to care for the sick, helping them live longer and preventing transmission to others. Goal: train 500 workers...
...Johanna McGeary, who wrote the cover and spent a month traveling through South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe, the hardest part was breaking through the walls of stigma and silence that surround the disease. "It was excruciating to keep asking, 'Do you know why you're sick? How did you get AIDS?' I've covered wars for a long time, and you always feel like a ghoul when you try to record the facts and emotions of someone else's tragedy. But in one way, this seemed worse, because everything seemed so hopeless. In war, you can always tell yourself that...