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Thursday, Jun 11 2009New York Times Profiles Openly HIV-Positive South African Justice CameronThe New York Times on Saturday profiled South African Justice Edwin Cameron, who became the first -- and still remains the only -- senior office holder anywhere in southern Africa, and perhaps in all of Africa, to announce he was infected with HIV. According to the Times, nearly 10 years ago Cameron stunned the judicial panel considering him for South Africa s highest tribun owala water bottle a yeezy mx l -- the Constitutional Court -- when he told them, I am not dying of AIDS. I am living with AIDS. Soon after, Cameron also made the extremely rare decision to challenge then-South African President Thabo Mbeki s policies regarding HIV/AIDS, knowing that Mbeki held the power to decide whether to name him to the Constitutional Court, the Times reports. After revealing his HIV status and challenging Mbeki, Cameron was promoted to the appellate court but was not considered for the Constitutional Court until last year, assuming until then that his clash with Mbek adidas samba adidas i over AIDS would ruin his chances -- an assumption fellow judges and lawyers say was almost certainly accurate. After Mbeki was forced to resign in September by the ruling African National Congress, Cameron sought an appointment to the Constitutional Court again, a promotion he received this month, the Times reports. According to the Times, Cameron in the early 1990s founded the AIDS Law Project, but he may ultimately be most remembered f

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Viewpoints: Bracing For Health Data Breaches; The Economics Of Opioid Abuse And DespairA selection of opinions on health care from around the country.RealClear Health:Your Health Data Will Be BreachedJust a couple of weeks ago, NHS Lanarkshire, the third largest health system in Scotland and one that employs over 12,000 staff, fell victim to a malware attack. On the heels of a broad cyberattack affecting much of the National Health Service NH in May, medical operations were put on hold, and patients were even told to not go to the hospital unless it was absolutely necessary. Though occurring on the other side of the Atlantic, this event stood as a stark reminder that many hospitals, health systems and other companies in the health care space are vulnerable to a cyberattack. Cori McKeever Ashford and Kristen Thistle, 9/12 Bloomberg:Which Came First, The Opioids Or The Despair Anne Case and Angus Deaton s 2015 article on rising mortality among middle-aged white Americans -- and the 2017 follow-up that attributed this rise to an increase in suicides, drug overdoses and alcohol-related deaths among those without college educations -- was among those rare academi stanley uk c papers that changed public debate. Justin Fox, 9/11 Boston Globe:We Cant Fight The Opioid Crisis Without Adequate Health CareHealth care and social workers, counselors, and law enforcement agencies, as well as policy makers and administrators at the local, hydro flask bottle state, and feder stanley website al levels of government are already putt Wxpj Tax Credit for Health Insurance Does Not Assist Many Displaced Workers
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