Category Archives: News Items

Tweeting you can believe in.

Written by Damjan Denoble. Posted on May 5, 2010. Filed under News Items. No comments.

I've set my twitter up to the point where it now functions as my primary source of news, and so it's now worth sharing with you. Check out all of the articles linked to - I promise they're worth your wasted time. If you're on twitter, be sure you're following at least some of the people mentioned below.

HIV/AIDS Ban on Foreigners coming to China lifted

Written by Damjan Denoble. Posted on April 28, 2010. Filed under News Items. 2 Comments.

China’s come a long way from the days when it labeled HIV/AIDS as a the foreign devils’ disease. Though lifting the ban on foreigners with HIV/AIDS is a reason to cheer, the Chinese public still has a very rudimentary understanding of what HIV/AIDS is and how it is transmitted. Plus, as readers familiar with China [...]

Blood Money: Why Blood Transfusions Are So Dirty in China

Written by Bradley Hoath. Posted on April 27, 2010. Filed under China, Human Rights, News Items, Public Health. 2 Comments.

During the 1980s, in the United States, Canada, Japan and France thousands of people who underwent blood transfusions were infected with the HIV/AIDS virus. Subsequent national investigations into these scandals revealed that blood collection agencies were under-regulated and ripe with corruption. After approximately five years, increases in government oversight of these agencies and improved blood collection [...]

Changing Addiction: A brief essay.

Written by Damjan Denoble. Posted on April 22, 2010. Filed under News Items. No comments.

The ability to change habits is the human superpower that the birds and lizard brains of the animal kingdom envy. While the power to re-program our brain at will gives us dominion over them, and all other life as we know it, on Earth, it is much more useful insofar as it enables us to [...]

The Next Chinese Empire

Written by Damjan Denoble. Posted on April 20, 2010. Filed under News Items. No comments.

Howard French’s Atlantic Monthly piece, The Next Empire, is the best I’ve seen yet on China’s ongoing efforts at expanding it’s African holdings. One of my college roommates is in Tanzania right now working on a development project that depends on the cooperation of NGOs, universities, and government personnel. Despite his experience working for years at one [...]