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AIDS in South Africa In January 2000, the United Nations Security Council mobilized for the first time ever against an illness: It declared the AIDS epidemic that is galloping through Africa, Asia, africas aids child crisis phan and the Caribbean a global catastrophe. Even the US ambassador to the United Nations, Richard Holbrooke, has acknowledged it as,'the greatest single threat to humanity.' the crisis is worst in sub-Saharan Africa, africas aids child crisis phan and especially South Africa, which has one of the fatest-growing epidemics in the world: One out of four adults is HIV positive, as are 29% of all pregnant women. Reporting from the frontlines of the daily battle with AIDS consuming hospitals africas aids child crisis phan and households across the country, author africas aids child crisis phan and journalist Zia Jaffrey stresses that AIDS in Africa is not simply a health issue but an amalgam of economic, political, africas aids child crisis phan and social concerns. Taking on Mbeki's administration, first-world governments, the large multinational pharmaceutical companies, africas aids child crisis phan and the inimical legacy of apartheid on the country's social cohesion, Jaffrey argues forcefully that not allowing developing nations access to cheap generic drugs nor drastically cutting prices of life-prolonging africas aids child crisis phan and AIDS-fighting drugs is tantamount to genocide. In disturbing personal narratives from men africas aids child crisis phan and women in South Africa, she reveals how AIDS has recently become the new apartheid. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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The Omen (WS/DVD) John Moore?s remake of Richard Donner?s unsettling 1976 horror classic increases the quality of production values, yet stays very true to the original. Live Schreiber (EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED) plays Robert Thorn, a wealthy American official living in Rome, whose wife, Kate (Julia Stiles, MONA LISA SMILE), has just lost her first child. At the behest of a strange priest, Robert substitutes an orphaned child for his own without Kate?s knowledge, africas aids child crisis phan and soon the small family is living an idyllic existence on a lavish estate in England. But when the child, Damian (Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick), turns five years old, strange things begin to happen, beginning with a nanny?s public africas aids child crisis phan and very grisly suicide at the boy?s lavish birthday party. Kate begins to notice odd things about her child, such as the way other children don?t want to play with him, his strange provocation of animals, africas aids child crisis phan and his increasingly pronounced withdrawal from her. By the time she begins fearing for her life, however, it may be too late, africas aids child crisis phan and it?s up to her husband to figure out once africas aids child crisis phan and for all if the child really is the spawn of Satan. Thus Robert embarks on a journey that takes him back to Italy, Jerusalem, africas aids child crisis phan and an encounter with a priest of decidedly horrific mien; he?s aided by a photographer who has figured out what?s going on, africas aids child crisis phan and who just might be the next one to die. The atmospheric, spooky mise-en-scene, marked by an almost constant storm africas aids child crisis phan and grey tones interrupted by startling reds, deliciously makes the most of the film?s exaggeratedly apocalyptic message. The wonderful Mia Farrow (ROSEMARY?S BABY) is unbelievably creepy as Damian?s replacement nanny. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power - ACT UP, or the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, "is a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals ... committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis.
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Gay Men's Health Crisis - The Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) is a non-profit, volunteer-supported and community-based organization that has lead the United States in the fight against AIDS. It was founded by Larry Kramer and Paul Popham.
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