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...February, in a significant boost to an existing initiative, the School of Public Health was granted $107 million over the next five years from President Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa. This funding for the Treatment Care and Prevention Initiative in Botswana, Nigeria and Tanzania will allow doctors to better treat patients, according to Professor of Immunology and Infectious Disease Phyllis Kanki, one of the leaders of the initiative...
...adventurous set--many of whom are baby boomers--inoculations are a vital concern. "Whether it's a safari in Botswana or sightseeing in Laos, travelers are looking for new, exotic destinations," says Judy Peil, owner of a St. Louis, Mo., travel agency...
Christopher J. Lee teaches African history in the history department and is a fellow at the W. E. B. DuBois Institute and the Carr Center for Human Rights. He has lived and worked in South Africa, as well as in Malawi, Botswana and Mozambique...
...FDCs controversy is quickly becoming a black-eye for the White House. When the United States convened an international conference in Botswana to discuss the issue last month, the European Union’s leading drug regulatory authority boycotted the meeting. Congresspersons, including independent-minded Republican sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, have signed open letters criticizing the administration’s stance...
McCall Smith, on extended leave from his job, is prolific. He has written more than 30 children's books (he has two daughters--one at college, the other younger) and a monograph on the criminal law of Botswana. A new series of books about Isabel Dalhousie, a female gumshoe in Edinburgh, is well under way; the first installment, The Sunday Philosophy Club, is due out in September. A satirical novel about academics, Portuguese Irregular Verbs, is expected in early 2005. And the sixth Ramotswe book is already finished. How does he manage it all? "I'm very lucky," he says...