First Do No
Harm
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Illegal Immigrants
Sick, Injured
Deport Them No One Will Notice
China’s Olympic challenge
On the eve of the most politically charged Games in decades, can Beijing change its ways?
By Clifford Coonan in Beijing and Raymond Whitaker
Sunday, 3 August 2008
China was under pressure yesterday to lift censorship and honour its human rights guarantees as thousands of athletes, officials and tourists began arriving for the Olympics, which Beijing’s Communist leadership sees as the moment the country takes its rightful place on the world stage.
With only five days to go before the Games, on which the country has spent £20bn, anticipation among Chinese is high. Many in Beijing are quoting the saying “Bai nian bu yu”, which translates as “We’ve been waiting 100 years for this”.
HIV epidemic in U.S. worse than previously thought, CDC says
Based on new testing methods, the CDC says there are actually about 56,300 new infections a year — not 40,000 — and that rate has been fairly constant for a decade.
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 3, 2008
Federal officials have been underestimating the number of new HIV infections in the United States by 40% every year for more than a decade, a finding that indicates the U.S. epidemic is much worse than thought, researchers said Saturday.
Using sophisticated testing to identify new infections, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded that there are about 56,300 new infections each year, not the 40,000 figure that has been gospel for so long.
The new numbers do not mean that the epidemic is growing in this country, just that researchers have been able to provide more accurate estimates, said Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of the CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention. He said the number of new infections has remained relatively constant since the late 1990s.
Still, the higher estimates were a jarring reminder that the United States, while castigating prevention efforts in much of the world, has not been able to get a firm grip on its own problems.
USA
Immigrants Deported, by U.S. Hospitals
By DEBORAH SONTAG
Published: August 3, 2008
JOLOMCÚ, Guatemala – High in the hills of Guatemala, shut inside the one-room house where he spends day and night on a twin bed beneath a seriously outdated calendar, Luis Alberto Jiménez has no idea of the legal battle that swirls around him in the lowlands of Florida.Shooing away flies and beaming at the tiny, toothless elderly mother who is his sole caregiver, Mr. Jiménez, a knit cap pulled tightly on his head, remains cheerily oblivious that he has come to represent the collision of two deeply flawed American systems, immigration and health care.