1997
- CRUMBLED EMPIRE, SHATTERED HEALTH / Resuscitating Science
- Newsday - November 18, 1997
- Laurie Garrett - Staff Correspondent
- WASHINGTON: AT AGE 27, Elena Bourganskaia should be serving right now as something of a building block for the future of public health in Russia , the land of her birth. Trained in Moscow as a medical doctor, Bourganskaia is curious about her world, energetic in her work, sophisticated in her views of the role of moder
- CRUMBLED EMPIRE, SHATTERES HEALTH / Expanding Sex Industry Spreads Disease
- Newsday - November 4, 1997
- Laurie Garrett - Staff Correspondent
- DUBI, Czech Republic : DR. JAROMIR JIRASEK is no prude. His office is adorned with pictures of mostly naked women, and he says with a smile that he knows how to have a good time. Nonetheless, he s been at the forefront of a battle by local citizens of this small Bohemian village to control prostitution in the area -
- CRUMBLED EMPIRE, SHATTERED HEALTH / 'Elista' Incident Fosters Distrust in the System
- Newsday - November 4, 1997
- Laurie Garrett - Staff Correspondent
- ST. PETERSBURG, Russia : AT THE LENINGRAD Republican Infectious Disease Hospital, located in the countryside near this city of 4.5 million, many of the dynamics - and much of the history - driving the HIV explosion in Russia can be seen at once at a Salvation Army prayer meeting. A 10-year-old girl demurely bows he
- HIV Marches on East Europe
- Newsday - November 4, 1997
- Laurie Garrett - Staff Correspondent
- Berkeley, Calif. - HIV is spreading explosively in new regions of the world, particularly the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, according to a report released yesterday by the World Bank. While noting that the human immunodeficiency virus is already widespread in 21 nations, the report pinpoints
- CRUMBLED EMPIRE, SHATTERED HEALTH / A Hotbed of HIV.
- Newsday - November 4, 1997
- Laurie Garrett. Staff Correspondent
- ODESSA, Ukraine THE OPIUM concoction he s been shooting into his veins for two years no longer satisfies Sasha, a pale, wiry, 20-year-old laborer. Even so, he says, I can t quit. Something keeps drawing me back here. He pauses a moment to watch a cluster of adolescent drug addicts scurry past into Palermo, the city s m
- CRUMBLED EMPIRE, SHATTERED HEALTH / The Drug Explosion / An epidemic of abuse, disease is devastating region's youth
- Newsday - November 2, 1997
- Laurie Garrett - Staff Correspondent
- ODESSA, UKRAINE: It s Monday night at 7, and Artur is ready to walk the thread through this city s prime narcotics neighborhood, Palermo. The plan is to score enough opium poppy straw, and the necessary solvents, to cook up a batch of chornie for himself and, perhaps, for his buddy, Oleg. To walk the thread, the two me
- CRUMBLED EMPIRE, SHATTERED HEALTH / Virus Spreading Like Wildfire
- Newsday - November 2, 1997
- Laurie Garrett - Staff Correspondent
- NOVOSIBIRSK, SIBERIA: Hepatitis viruses are spreading across the former Soviet Union faster than any other class of viruses, acting as hitchhikers on the region s exploding narcotics epidemic. Of the seven major types of hepatitis virus, three are known to be wildly out of control in the region already: A, B and C. And
- Hope for Destroying HIV in Babies
- Newsday - January 26, 1997
- Laurie Garrett. Staff Correspondent
- Washington - Two HIV-infected babies treated with a powerful combination of antiviral drugs appear to have had the dangerous viruses cleared from their bodies. I would be cautiously optimistic, but over the next two to three years we will be able to determine whether eradication [of HIV] is possible in these children,
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