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...refused to allow Gui to return to the villages. So he and three students sneaked back in during a long weekend holiday when he knew the gatekeepers might be off duty. For three days he went house to house, collecting samples, counseling patients and explaining how the virus is spread...
...people. The tragedy of TB is that it can be cured with a six-to-eight-month series of daily antibiotics, but interrupted treatment can lead to the rise of multi-drug-resistant TB that is far more difficult and expensive to cure. So serious were fears about the spread of resistant TB that when Sok first began working in the camps during the 1980s, the strategy for treating refugees with TB was simple--don't. Refugees were not considered good bets to complete their course of medication...
When it comes to combatting AIDS, doctors and clergy don't always see eye to eye. Physicians zero in on the virus that causes the scourge. Ministers tend to highlight the moral lapses--from social injustice to sexual behavior--that help spread the disease. They could be allies in combatting the epidemic, particularly in Africa where doctors are few and preachers many, but instead they often seem to work at cross-purposes, divided by mistrust and skeptical of one another's motives...
...example, Okaalet recalls a ministers' workshop that MAP organized in Zambia. The leader was a dynamic young woman named Bridget who was HIV positive but didn't reveal her status at first. Toward the end of the program, after she had reviewed how HIV is spread, she told the participants that she was infected. "They were shocked," Okaalet says. "She didn't look like somebody with HIV." They were even more stunned to learn that she contracted HIV from her husband, who was a minister, and that he became infected after having sex with a woman he knew had AIDS...
...always unfortunate when private data is released and confidences are broken. We rely, however, on the common decency of those around us to control the damage. This campus saw a failure of that decency on an astounding scale. So many people are to blame: those who spread the archives around even though they were obviously intended to be private, the reporting staff of The Crimson for bringing personal gossip into a public forum with insufficient regard to the feelings of its objects, and everyone else, myself included, who pointed a finger at Isis for making an honest mistake while failing...