The Church & AIDS in Africa
Condoms & the Culture of Life
Marcella Alsan April 17, 2006 - 11:38am
As a young physician, I often second-guess myself. In practicing medicine such self-criticism is warranted, even obligatory, because a wrong diagnosis can lead to misguided therapy and may end in death. After working at a Catholic hospital in the small sub-Saharan country of Swaziland, however, there is one diagnosis I pronounce with uncharacteristic certitude: AIDS.
The typical patient is a young woman between eighteen and thirty years of...
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