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...group of experts from Harvard schools highlighted the University’s help in preventing the spread of AIDS in Brazil at a conference about the disease in the Center for Government and International Studies yesterday. The conference, organized in part by a Harvard undergraduate, presented Brazil as a generally good model for countries affected by AIDS. During the early 1990s the World Bank projected that 1.2 million Brazilians would be infected with HIV by 2000. But in 2005 it was estimated that only 600,000 had been infected, according to Professor of Medicine John R. David...
...Brazil 57% negative...
...East Timor's problems are compounded by the fact that its population of just under 1 million is commonly referred to by no fewer than four names. Even though less than 10% of the population speaks Portuguese, the ruling government decided to follow in the footsteps of Brazil, Cape Verde and Mozambique by making the former colonial European tongue East Timor's official language. On East Timorese passports, the country is labeled Timor-Leste, "leste" being Portuguese for "east." Many nationalists, however, prefer to call the country not by its English or Portuguese designations, but by its name in Tetum...
...Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Bush was greeted by violent demonstrations and angry speeches from leftist leaders like Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. But the five countries Bush has chosen for his six-day Latin America tour that starts today in Sao Paulo, Brazil, are led by either kindred conservatives or more moderate leftists. And the venues he's visiting are often far from metropolis hotbeds of anti-yanqui sentiment - like Merida, on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, a sleepy Maya world away from the Mexico City streets that were paralyzed by leftist protests last summer after conservative...
...Fortunately, all indications are that the Administration has finally gotten the message. The major ethanol investment project that Bush will promote in Brazil with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at least captures the spirit of what Latin Americans say they've been wanting from Washington for so long. That is, it's less about the abstractions of free trade - the fruits of which too rarely trickle down in Latin America's corrupt societies - and more about targeting specific development engines that may well create decent-paying jobs. The gesture may be too little too late to repair Bush...