AIDS AND THE AFRICAN
Colin Davis, in his Johannesburg home with his mother Lettie and his nephew Jason, is dying of AIDS. "My problem," he says, "was I never used protection." (Globe Photo/Jodi Bieber)
A CONTINENT'S CRISIS
AIDS and the African
'Unless there is a fundamental change in behavior, there will be no drastic change in the evolution of the epidemic.'
(By Kurt Shillinger, Globe Correspondent)
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Delays in Mass. Medicaid slammed
Response in critical case is questioned
(By Michael Crowley, Globe Correspondent)
Just weeks after the saga of an 11-year-old leukemia patient prompted a reassessment of state Medicaid policies, a new case is raising questions about whether Massachusetts forces low-income patients to wait substantially longer for life-saving treatments than people with private insurance, even when there is no disagreement about the treatment's effectiveness.
Hunters use gifts, gab to win way onto private land
(By Ellen Barry, Globe Staff)
THE DYING
'We grew up telling ourselves, "If you have one girlfriend, you're not man enough."'
(By Wil Haygood, Globe Staff)
JOHANNESBURG - Hector was a nobody with few girls. And so he got them. For the price of a warm beer he had a bedtime partner every night. He'd boast of his conquests like so many boys in this country boast of their moves on green soccer fields.
Scramble in Reform Party attracting a colorful cast
(By Bob Hohler, Globe Staff)
WORCESTER - Minutes after South Boston lawyer Robert LaMarca strolled into the Reform Party's state convention the other day, he was minted as a member of the party and a delegate to its national convention.
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