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Articles:

A NEW APPROACH TO HIV PREVENTION IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD

Robin Briggs '94

By Julia Hays Klebanow '73

On January 27, 2007, Robin Briggs waited at the Amsterdam airport, her bags loaded on the next flight to Johannesberg. She and colleagues from Family Health International (FHI) were en route to a training course, preparing for work at one of FHI's clinical trial sites in South Africa. Their training involved a new HIV prevention drug known as cellulose sulfate (CS) or Ushercell. Then, a call from FHI headquarters in North Carolina: the CS trials have been terminated; the centers are closing. COME HOME. Robin and her team

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WHERE HAVE ALL THE ART PROGRAMS GONE?

By Julie Akeret '76

"How important are the visual arts in our society? I feel strongly that visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I'm a visual art"
- Kermit the Frog, Muppet

When I was growing up in NYC in the sixties and seventies, art was considered an important part of a student's education. Whether attending a private or public school, instruction in the visual arts, music, and sometimes even dance were provided side by side with math, english, history and science.

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