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The cheap collateral damage of sex scandals
Endless studies show that children are disrupted by changes in family structure, and boy, does infidelity often change family structure. (Globe Columnist, 7/10/09)
A quagmire for Obama
Questions are emerging as to whether Obama is slipping slowly but surely into his own quagmire, in another guerrilla war. (Globe Columnist, 7/6/09)
Uganda's dilemma of competing goals
Uganda has become a laboratory for how developing countries deal with old scourges while anticipating new environmental challenges. (Boston Globe, 6/29/09)
Malaria, DDT, and desperation in Uganda
The use of DDT arouses great passion in sub-Saharan Africa, where access to the best drugs is woeful, and where simple home protections are lacking. (Globe Columnist, 6/26/09)
The silent killer in Uganda
A third of women in urban Kampala, Uganda, and a quarter of the women in more rural central and southwestern Uganda are overweight or obese, according to 2007 government statistics. It is a major paradox since 50 percent of children in southwestern Uganda are malnourished. (Boston Globe, 6/22/09)
New diet, new threat in Uganda
While old-fashioned malnutrition persists in Ugandan villages, area
doctors are seeing the creeping advance of mis-nourishment, with thin
villagers showing up in clinics with hypertension and diabetes. (Globe Columnist, 6/19/09)
When diabetics would prefer AIDS
The resources for diabetes are so little in Mbarara, Uganda, a rapidly growing city of 100,000, that the head of the diabetes clinic at Mbarara University Hospital said some patients think the unthinkable: "One diabetic patient told me she wished she had HIV
because HIV treatment is free and she has to pay for insulin," he said. (Boston Globe, 6/15/09)
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