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Kline's plan for dealing with the ongoing emergency in Africa was to create several pediatric centers of excellence for AIDS. (Four have opened--in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi and Swaziland--and four more are in the planning stages.) Then he set about finding the staff and the money to run them. Since there aren't enough doctors and nurses in most African countries, that meant recruiting young physicians from the U.S. to spend a year or two at the clinics. Most of the funding for the first class of 52 doctors in his Pediatric AIDS Corps comes from Bristol-Myers...
...middle of an intense four-week crash course in tropical medicine. At the end of their medical marathon, they will be trading the steamy urban comforts of Texas for the hothouse that is Africa; some are headed to the southern tip of the continent, to Lesotho, Botswana and Swaziland, others to the west, to Burkina Faso, while another bunch is destined for the east, to Malawi and Tanzania. Before they go, however, they need to learn an entirely new kind of medicine, and become familiar with parasites, pests and pustules the likes of which they have never seen in their...
...represent the higher end of medical care available in Africa, supply chains aren't always reliable. "There are still many challenges here with labs and medicine - not ARVS but things like iron supplements or antibiotics like penicillin that are not consistently available," Megan Harkless e-mailed last week from Botswana. "There is still stigma and fear, and families that are financially very limited with no [electrical] power and therefore no refrigerator. Some patients have to travel for several hours or even an full day to come to Gabarone for clinic visits, many are struggling just to have enough nutritious food...
...Beers and the rest of the industry deserve credit, however, for taking the first steps toward ending the diamond-related slaughter. And, yes, the gems can be used to build up a nation's infrastructure rather than tear it apart. While the nascent democracy of Botswana does not have a diversified economy (65% of export income comes from diamonds), its calm political climate proves that these stones are not always corrosive to the places they come from. Namibia is taking steps toward creating a homegrown polishing industry, adding a long-overdue value-added layer to the extraction process. A sudden...
Since Kimberley was created, the industry says, 99.8% of diamonds are conflict free. Activists say that the situation is better but that diamonds are the cause of continuing misery. Two weeks ago, when Kimberley Process members sat down to their annual plenary meeting in Botswana to discuss how the watchdog system was working, the pressure for tighter oversight had ratcheted up. Responding to a U.N. report that poor controls are allowing conflict diamonds from war-torn Ivory Coast to enter the legitimate trade through neighboring Ghana, where they are being certified as conflict free, the diamond industry agreed not only...