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...late as the 1990’s, half of the World Bank’s AIDS-related projects did not finance or promote condom use. President Bush is continuously derided for his decision to invade Iraq, but the caveat in his large-scale plan for AIDS relief in Africa, which demanded that at least a third of prevention spending go to abstinence-only programs, is, in humanitarian terms, not vastly different from the most criticized choice he made while in office...
...some communities in Africa, parents still believe their children are dying not from AIDS, but from witchcraft. Meanwhile, many HIV activists encourage medical doctors in these contexts to rely on the assistance of traditional healers (who are known to spread the myth that sleeping with a virgin cures diseases. While one NGO in Zimbabwe has already tried to debunk that myth, it is astonishing that donors spend millions of dollars on expensive HIV testing and (comparably) miniscule resources are spent on providing vital information to containing the spread of AIDS...
...Massachusetts one finds fine-artist-designed BerkShares, which are convertible to U.S. dollars. More than $2 million in BerkShares have been issued through the 12 branches of five local banks, according to Susan Witt, executive director of the E.F. Schumacher Society, the nonprofit behind the currency. And in South Africa, proprietary software keeps track of Community Exchange System (CES) Talents; one ambitious plan is to make Khayelitsha, a vast, desolate township of perhaps 1 million inhabitants near Cape Town, a self-sustaining community...
Papa, 22, is from Senegal and has lived in Spain for a year. He had heard that growers weren't hiring foreigners this year. "But it's the same as what you think when you leave Africa. You hear that it's hard to find work in Europe, you hear that you need papers, but you think it's not true, that...
...America's significantly poorer neighbor promised to cut carbon emissions 50% below 2002 levels by 2050, far in excess of anything the U.S. has pledged. India announced a plan to boost solar power, Brazil promised a 70% cut in its annual deforestation rate by 2017, and South Africa initiated a program to stop growth of its carbon emissions by 2025. "Developing countries are starting to signal an emerging willingness to take action," says Jake Schmidt, the international climate policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council. That's key, given the fact that developing countries - a category that encompasses nations...