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...products we're developing that I'm most excited about is a pilot program for savings targeting young women and adolescent girls that we're working on with the Nike Foundation. Regional expansion is also a priority for us, and we're pursuing expansion strategies in Africa - where some astounding progress has already been made and the prospects for accelerated growth are promising - and the Middle East, and also in China, where microfinance is still a nascent industry...
...hosted by the Harvard Global Health and AIDS Coalition and the Anthropology 1825 Speaker Series in connection with World AIDS Day. “I’ve always believed in multilateralism,” said Lewis, who is also a former United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa and deputy director of UNICEF. “But some dreadful things have been done through the negligence and inertia of the multilateral system.” He cited the World Health Organization’s 3 by 5 Initiative, which many countries criticized, as an example of an intervention...
...Rice was Clinton's top Africa diplomat when al Qaeda bombed the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, which led to her first middle-of-the-night official phone call - from Kenya's ambassador alerting her to the attacks. Working for Clinton's National Security Council, she also dealt with issues related to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, including the president's widely criticized decision not to intervene. In 1995, she was appointed the NSA's lead Africa expert; she became pregnant with her first child while in the post and didn't take leave until one day before...
...splendidly progressive of Clinton to place his Africa policy in the care of relatively young women ... On the other hand, he's utterly ignorant of a cultural reality." - Simon Barber, a journalist in South Africa, speculating that Rice would not be able to negotiate with Africa's older male leaders, as quoted in Stanford Magazine, November/December...
...that high cost and lack of availability of the drugs are not sufficient explanations for why the government did not implement an ARV treatment program. Chigwidere, who spoke at the Museum of Science last night in honor of World AIDS Day, said yesterday that he chose to study South Africa because it is one of the countries that has been “most affected” by the AIDS epidemic, as one in five adults in South Africa is infected with HIV. He added that as a native of Zimbabwe, he wanted to study a region that...