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...behalf of his humanitarian efforts, Bono has flown around the world and met with the likes of former President Bill Clinton, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the Pope...
...only the fortunes of missile defense advocates that may be profoundly altered by Jeffords' turn. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan will, no doubt, be relieved that the fate of the hundreds of millions of dollars Washington owes his organization will no longer be captive to the whims of Senator Jesse Helms, who has in the past made agreements dependent on such rather strange conditions as a guarantee that the U.N. would refrain from taking control...
...beef? Is this simply going to be a symbolic gesture, or does the administration plan to seriously engage with some of Africa's many problems? And the jury is still out on that one. President Bush was roundly criticized for ponying up only $200 million to Kofi Annan's international fund to fight AIDS in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world, but Powell insists that was just a down-payment...
...than 30 African heads of state gathered in Nigeria last month for an AIDS conference. African leadership must be the core of any strategy to combat the epidemic. Now, after tragic years lost, it seems that such leadership is beginning to emerge. At that meeting, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called on the leaders to multiply their health budgets and take serious action, and he called on the developed world to donate $7 to 10 billion a year to support their efforts. That kind of money can help stop the new infections (almost 4 million last year in Africa), treat...
...offered to African countries for anti-AIDS "cocktails" to a fraction of what's charged in industrialized countries. One Bristol-Myers AIDS drug, Zerit, now costs just $54 a year in Africa; in the U.S., patients pay $3,589. This month, six other firms assured U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan they too would continue lowering prices. But at a conference in Norway last week with officials from the World Health Organization and World Trade Organization, some industry leaders resisted calls for further discounts. Said Bill Fullagar, the president of the U.K.'s pharmaceutical trade association: "The industry...