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Threat
More Devastating than Disease
By
Ranjit Devraj
INDIA
Medical tests conducted last year proved conclusively that Kaushalya,
29, did not have HIV. But by then, just the threat of having contracted
the virus had destroyed her social life and forced her to abort
her child.
Orphan
Children, Dilapidated Farms
By
Mercedes
Sayagues
PRETORIA
- Drive around Masaka and Rakai districts, along the shores of Lake
Victoria, in Uganda, and quickly you see the effects of the Acquired
Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) on agriculture: overgrown coffee,
dilapidated banana plantations, and empty plots the bush has reclaimed.
A
Girl in Every Port, Danger Everywhere
By Marites
Sison
MANILA
"No one will become a seafarer if there are no women,"
declares Esteban, a squat man who proudly declares he has four wives
-one in the Philippines and three others in Hong Kong and Brazil.
"They are our only happiness (there)."
But
Wives Close Their Eyes...
By Marites Sison
MANILA
"God's will be done", is the prayer Esper (not her real
name) utters each time she has sex with her husband, a seafarer
from the Philippines who has been in the trade for the last 22 years.
Poor,
Black and Female
By Gumisai Mutume
WASHINGTON
- Wendy says she suffered from uterine bleeding every day for three
years, because doctors were reluctant to complete surgery on her
once they learnt of her HIV status.
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