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Chances are your shirt, your pants and your underwear all came from southern China, the new manufacturing center of the world. Add one more export: your flu virus. With its dense populations of people and animals trading germs back and forth, southern China has been the traditional birthplace of influenza, including the nasty strain of H5N1 bird flu that's keeping public-health officials awake at night. The viruses that evolve in a chicken in southern China's Guangdong province could eventually end up in your lungs--and that's what makes a chain-smoking, impetuous Chinese virologist named...
Guan, 43, who was born in mainland China but is chiefly based at the University of Hong Kong, is a human early-warning system in the shifting viral landscape of southern China and now southeast Asia, where bird flu has been endemic since the end of 2003. Although Beijing is traditionally secretive about disease within its borders, Guan's network of mainland Chinese contacts and his secondary position at Shantou University in Guangdong province have helped his team gather biological samples from more than 100,000 birds in the region over the past five years, more than any other scientist...
Prejudice and stigma remain powerful barriers in Africa's fight against AIDS. Misinformation, bigotry and indifference can be found everywhere, from tiny villages to presidential offices. Nowhere is that more so than in Swaziland, a mountainous southern African country with the world's highest rate of HIV infection. An astonishing 42.6% of adult Swazis are HIV-positive. It doesn't help that Swaziland's ruler, King Mswati, 37, who is Africa's last absolute monarch, sets such a bad example. Mswati may advocate abstinence and faithfulness, but he hardly practices what he preaches. In September he chose his 13th wife...
...extension their congregations--to refine and in some cases redefine their response to AIDS. To that end he has run countless seminars in Kenya and elsewhere and helped establish master's degree programs in pastoral care and HIV/AIDS at 14 seminaries and Bible colleges in eastern and southern Africa...