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BLANCHARD, Haiti - When Micheline Leon was diagnosed with HIV, her parents told her they would fit her for a coffin. Muzi.com News 10091197-1 (muzi.com)
In the early 1980s, experts thought AIDS could wipe out a third of Haiti's population. Instead, the country's HIV infection rate stayed in the single digits, then plummeted.
When Micheline Leon was diagnosed with HIV, her parents told her they would fit her for a coffin. Fifteen years later, she walks around her two-room concrete house on Haiti's central plateau, watching her four children play under the plantain trees.
Eds: RESTORES dropped first name of Paul Farmer in 20th graf; MULTIMEDIA: An audio gallery will be posted Sunday, July 5 at noon EDT in the international/haiti--aids folder.
When Micheline Leon was diagnosed with HIV, her parents told her they would fit her for a coffin.
- International Caesarean Awareness Network (ICAN) of Erie will meet Wednesday, July 8, 6:30 to 8 p.m., Admiral Room, Blasco Library, 160 E. Front St. The topic is "Breech presentation: What you can do to avoid a surgical birth." Call Sarah Imig at 460-7636 or e-mail her at icanoferie@yahoo.com..
Eds: Also moved in advance. MULTIMEDIA: An audio gallery is available in the international/haiti--aids folder.
Keri Smith, Ph.D., an assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, has received a Career Development Award from the National Hemophilia Foundation. The award will support Smith's research into the development of a therapy for people with Hemophilia A, a bleeding disorder, whose immune systems are resistant to treatment.
The Mozambique parliament in Africa passed the first draft of a bill against domestic violence on June 29, reported the nation's official press agency. The bill imposes harsher penalties for crimes of domestic violence; currently domestic violence is treated as a simple assault case.
There’s a common misconception that people diagnosed with hemophilia – a blood disorder – are forced to live their lives inside a protective bubble. That may have been true at one time, but thanks to modern technology and the supporters of a program called Leading Edge, Oregon ...
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