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Hopefully, Daschle’s words will brush off any stigma Bush has carelessly attached to those willing to question the administration’s intention to wipe out Saddam Hussein’s regime, or his desire to create a Homeland Security Department that would be autocratically controlled by the president. Indeed, the majority leader’s words seem to have rallied some Democrats formerly disaffected by the quick, unquestioning passage of a resolution on war with Iraq that just a couple weeks ago seemed likely...
...reality of an AIDS epidemic that affects almost one in nine South Africans, including about 250,000 children. The number of orphans who have lost their parents to AIDS is expected to approach 2 million by 2010. And a major obstacle in the fight against the disease is the stigma associated with it. The subject of AIDS is regarded by many people as taboo and sufferers, whether adults or children, are treated as social outcasts. "There are few media interventions that directly address HIV/AIDS for very young children," says Gloria Britain, Takalani Sesame's production manager...
...given copies of this article to my child's teachers, aunts, uncles and grandparents and, most important, to my child. Medication and therapy are the key starting points for treatment, but public education to correct the stigma associated with mental illness will help bring acceptance for bipolar and similar disorders. We need funds for research that will make the lives of these kids and their families hopeful and prosperous. ABIGAIL BULKLEY ROBERTS Hatfield, Mass...
...good start would be to put some of the $1.6 billion of federal dollars into improving the pool of housing available for voucher families and develop ways to place tenants around the city anonymously so they can avoid the stigma of coming from the projects. The CHA has come quite a long way, but there is still much work to be done, not so much with the poor but in the hearts and minds of their prospective neighbors...
...Despite the tranquilizer's well-known history overseas, perfectly healthy and otherwise conservative Indians are gobbling Al blissfully unaware of the risks. There's little stigma attached to it, nor do users endure the hassle of trying to score it from street-corner dealers. Recently, a casual request for Alprax tablets was greeted without a blink by a New Delhi pharmacist. The cost: 50 for a strip of 10 0.25-mg tablets. Another chemist was reluctant at first, but he relented. "You don't look the sort that might be an addict," he said. Neither recorded the name...