There is a country where HIV-positive children are being turned away and excluded from primary and secondary schools.
Parents of children as young as four were told by head teachers that teachers, other parents, school personnel and even dinner ladies would have to be told of the children’s medical status.
Guess in what country this despicable discrimination is happening?

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More than 25 years into a pandemic that affects 33 millions people in 2007 and has caused the death of millions, the myth that HIV does not cause AIDS is still alive and strong.
More than 25 years and the same old myths are rehashed and the same old abuses of science are perpetuated all over the world and thanks to the Internet are accessible to everybody, most frighteningly in countries where the virus has already spread in large swaths of the populations at risk.
In India, for example, Mayank Tewari writer …

The front page of The Guardian online today runs a story about Chris Parry, the chief executive of the Independent Schools Council next to a series of articles about animal research and in particular the use of monkeys and apes in experiments aiming at understanding the basic neural architecture of primates (including human) so that treatments for brain diseases even become a possibility.
On the one hand when asked if he thought that some children in state schools were unteachable Chris Parry replied, “Yeah, I think there are contexts within which …