But some of the most notable changes came from the efforts of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender
AIDS heroes--people like Barreto who are taking the fight to minority neighborhoods and college campuses.
More than a white male disease: in 2006 when the world marked the 25th anniversary of AIDS, it also saw the rise of a new generation of AIDS heroes who are taking the fight to their communities
That's the essence of the financial-aid shell game, played with international foreign
aid (and, in a slightly modified version, with "free trade" agreements).
X-RAY analysis foreign aid: foreign aid is usually given only a skin-deep examination by the citizens who pay for it. Now peer into the guts of the system to see what you're paying for
In his closing address, United Nations special envoy on HIV/AIDS for Africa Stephen Lewis blasted governments and institutions like the UN for the continued "diminution of the fights of women," and said that as long as men "control the bastions of power"
AIDS will not be broken.
AIDS activists urge protection of women; religion's role in epidemic debated
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It would be easy to assume that the
AIDS epidemic, so often associated with loss, generates nothing but sorrow in those it touches, that the personal adjustments we make are all negative.
Weeds
Although
AIDS began as a gay men's disease, the virus seems to infect women more easily.
Women & HIV
Despite only lip service on the part of most, some Black groups and churches have made real commitments towards stopping
AIDS in Black community.
Measuring a year in the life: what else can I do to get Black folks to care about the AIDS epidemic?
Singer point out in their 2000 British Medical Journal article, "A New Look at International Research Ethics," ethical reasoning shouldn't merely follow simple prescribed rules but should consider each case as it exists in its own context, "weighing and balancing competing moral requirements and developing justifiable conclusions." So how do these classical arguments or "rules" on the relationship of the rich and the poor relate to the African
AIDS crisis?
The African AIDS crisis and international indifference
CULTURE COMPARISON: A UN report concludes that
AIDS in Africa is out of control because it is hard to change people's culture.
In Africa, a town unravels: AIDS is rapidly stealing the life from a village in Swaziland
Tapsoba is a member of the National Catholic
AIDS Committee (NCAC).
Catholics fighting AIDS in Africa
It is almost impossible to grasp the magnitude of the situation, but Susan Hunter's introduction to her book Black Death:
AIDS in Africa gives us an idea:
Facing up to HIV/AIDS: authors lift the veil on complex issues surrounding pandemic in Africa and black America
AIDS began in Africa more than 80 years ago and today has become the leading cause of death across the continent.
Insuring hope: insurance for individuals with AIDS in Africa is hard to come by, but carriers are making changes to help the millions infected with the disease
As currently conceived, both the MCA and Bush's new
AIDS initiative will either reinvent or overlap with efforts already underway at the international level, many of which are effective and, indeed, already supported by the United States.
Hard currency: unilateralism doesn't work for foreign aid, either
USI Real Estate Advisors will serve as a sponsor of the Concerned Parents For
AIDS Research Spring luncheon on April 22, 2004 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.
For the sake of children
With one of the highest national rates of HIV infection in the world, South Africa faces a bleak demographic prospect on a continent harboring three-quarters of the global
AIDS cases.
The forgotten compass of death: apocalypse then and now in the social history of South Africa