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In Ethiopia, people living with HIV/Aids are often subjected to discrimination, but some religious leaders have been working to overcome the stigma. Meselech Mekuria did not know how to tell her pastor that she was HIV-positive, but one day after ...
Most people might be quicker to associate electroshock therapy with torture rather than healing. But since the 1980s, the practice has been quietly making a comeback. The number of patients undergoing electroconvulsive therapy, as it's formally ...
Many patients still duck around the corner and wait for Metrobuses to pass so they can run unseen into one of the Whitman-Walker clinics -- the area's largest nongovernmental providers of HIV/AIDS services, according to Justin Goforth, director of ...
In releasing "report cards" on three countries' efforts to protect women and girls from HIV and to care for female AIDS sufferers, activists hoped to shame governments. Instead, members of the umbrella group Blueprint for Action on Women and Girls ...
Marvel Entertainment Inc. posted a 60% increase in second-quarter net income amid strength in its licensing segment and boosted its full-year forecast due to contributions from its films "Iron Man" and "The Incredible Hulk." Though Marvel raised its ...
MEXICO CITY, Aug 3 (IPS) - The rain gods failed to dampen spirits of activists gathered at the old city centre of Zocalo to protest discrimination against those with the HIV virus. Hundreds of activists dressed in bright tribal costumes, women ...
Ecumenical HIV and Aids bodies have announced plans for a new campaign to equip churches play their part in the global response to the HIV and Aids pandemic. The Ecumenical HIV and Aids Initiative in Africa (EHAIA), Churches United Against HIV and ...
De Capua report on HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination - Download (MP3) De Capua report on HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination - Listen (MP3) More than 25 years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, scientific advances are helping HIV-positive people live longer ...
Injecting drug users are denied HIV drugs in some places in the world, making it much more difficult to combat the epidemic, experts told a conference on Tuesday. Drug users have spouses, children and often multiple sex partners, making them a major ...
There's an uneasy feeling floating about the workplace. Something just might be up. What's an executive to do? Leave. Right now. A study on managing the "stigma of failure" found that those high-level executives who left their positions in the two ...