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...Immunizations at University Health Services (UHS). Whoops! The Charles is only safe to swim in 360 out of 365 days of the year, so you'll have to take rabies, tetanus and West Nile virus shots. Don't worry, trained professionals will be injecting those huge needles in your arm...it won't hurt...
...lubricants dry out. The resulting dry sex is painful and dangerous for women. The drying agents suppress natural bacteria, and friction easily lacerates the tender walls of the vagina. Dry sex increases the risk of HIV infection for women, already two times as likely as men to contract the virus from a single encounter. The women, adds Chikoka, can charge more for dry sex, 50 or 60 rands ($6.46 to $7.75), enough to pay a child's school fees or to eat for a week...
...They're housed together in isolated males-only hostels but have easy access to prostitutes or a "town wife" with whom they soon pick up a second family and an ordinary STD and HIV. Then they go home to wives and girlfriends a few times a year, carrying the virus they do not know they have. The pattern is so dominant that rates of infection in many rural areas across the southern cone match urban numbers...
While access to antiretrovirals would bring a medical miracle to Africa, it would still provide no more than a holding action. Only a vaccine that could actually stamp out the virus would provide a lasting cure--and that remains tragically elusive. --Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington, William Dowell and Alice Park/New York
Seafarers and their wives on Myanmar's coast are very vulnerable to HIV. The virus spreads when fishermen return from trips and transmit HIV to their wives, who pass it to unborn or nursing children. Your donation will help slow the spread of AIDS near Kawthaung, where sex education and condoms are not widely available. Goal: distribute 600,000 condoms...