| Study: HIV discrimination rampant in Los Angeles County health care
Los Angeles County health care providers show high rates of HIV discrimination, reports the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles. In three studies conducted between 2003 and 2005, third-year law students, posing as patients who were HIV-positive or organizations working with HIV-positive patients, telephoned health care providers and asked if they treated HIV-positive people, then recorded and coded the responses. Overall, 56% of skilled nursing facilities, 47% of obstetricians, and 26% of plastic and cosmetic surgeons in Los Angeles County would not accept HIV-positive patients for services commonly offered to HIV-negative patients. When asked if he accepted HIV-positive patients, one health care worker responded, "We try not to.
Lottery cash boost for school facelift
PUPILS will get the chance to give their school a face lift after cleaning up at the National Lotteries Board. Smithills School has been given £5,000 from the All Big Lottery Fund to establish a regeneration project to improve the grounds. A task force of pupils, aged between 11 and 16, has been set up to highlight areas in need of work. .
Beauty and the beastliness: a tale of declining British values
Last night Jermaine Jackson spoke to the Celebrity Big Brother housemates of love. "Everybody here has love in their hearts," he told them. But then he did name one of his children Jermajesty, so you wouldn't want to put much faith in his judgment. The Big Brother house remains one of hate, divided between ugly, thick white Britain and one imperturbably dignified Indian woman. There are also some stereotypically weak men in the house, but they are functionally irrelevant. Shilpa Shetty has taken the supposed British virtues of civility, articulacy, reserve and having a stiff upper lip and shown that, at least in what passes for our celebrity culture, we lack them. Jade Goody, by contrast, was called into the diary room to explain why she had referred to the Bollywood star as "Shilpa Fuckawallah, Shilpa Durupa.
High Wycombe facelift revealed
HIGH Wycombe's future for the next 20 years has been revealed in a set of plans that intend to give the town a complete facelift. Wycombe District Council, (WDC) which will discuss the plan at a full cabinet meeting on Monday, wants to update the town to bring it in line with the Eden development and make use of derelict factory sites. Rural areas including Stokenchurch, Bourne End and Saunderton are also named as key sites for change within the Wycombe Development Framework (WDF), but councillors are keen to protect green belt land. WDC has been told by the Government that it has to build 330 new homes every year for the next 20 years, and hopes to do this by using brownfield sites. However Hugh McCarthy, cabinet member for planning and sustainability at the district council, warned that this figure could go up.
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