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Mar 28, 2007

TB Rates Decline, But XDR-TB Lurks in the Wings

The World Health Organization has announced that worldwide tuberculosis cases as a percentage of the population held steady in 2006. Yet more cases of tuberculosis are identified as extensively drug-resistent (XDR-TB).

Mar 20, 2007

(Red) Gets a Beating

Critics are pillorying Bono’s current project to save Africa, Product (Red). 

Mar 14, 2007

U.S. Far From Free for its Migrant Workers

A new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center questions whether guest worker programs in fact benefit workers as they should. 

Mar 07, 2007

The Danger of Denial

An article in the March 12 edition of The New Yorker provides an overview of AIDS denial, and how it has influenced AIDS treatment practices in South Africa.

Mar 06, 2007

Condom Use Not Enough To Curb the Spread of HIV

Botswana’s prevention programs have focused almost exclusively on condom distribution and promotion; no one is talking about either abstinence or promoting faithfulness to one partner.