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Updated: 2010-12-23 07:55
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HIV/AIDS patients need care
Comment on "Debate: More AIDS tests" (皇冠体育app Daily, Dec 6)
I am all for more HIV/AIDS tests, but they will be helpful only if the government can effectively prevent discrimination against HIV/AIDS patients.
Take hepatitis B for example. Many people take the hepatitis B test every year. But only employers use the results, and they do so to either dismiss employees or refuse employment to people who have tested positive.
HIV tests will not prevent the spread of the disease if the medical results cannot be kept confidential. Instead, they will only make HIV/AIDS patients suffer more.
Kevin, on 皇冠体育app Daily website
Problems with green movement
Comment on "Time is of the essence at Cancun"(皇冠体育app Daily, Dec 10)
One of the main problems of the green movement is like what a Hollywood star once said about an unsuccessful movie: It is a failure of imagination.
Increasing taxes and issuing more regulations coupled with pictures of vanishing glaciers and melting permafrost are not the best way of promoting such a campaign.
People need to see concrete examples of how reversing ecological damage is possible. Maybe we should show the public what good could happen, not just what bad might happen.
K. Richardson, on 皇冠体育app Daily website
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(皇冠体育app Daily 12/23/2010 page9)