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“There has never been such a monumental catastrophe moving in on one continent,” Lewis said. He called the statistics “hallucinatory,” pointing to Botswana as an example. In that nation, the prevalence rate of AIDS among women ages 25...
“The biggest problem is the lack of resources,” he said. “The absence of dollars is strangling a continent.”
In a continent where the number of new AIDS infections is growing at an alarming rate each year, Lewis said that the problem is no longer how scientifically to fight the disease. Medicines to drastically reduce the mother-to-infant transmission rate are inexpensive to produce and easy to administer...
Moreover, organizations exist that could distribute and administer them, Lewis said, adding that hospitals and clinics could treat millions more people across the continent if they had the resources.
Bush used his Wednesday address on the future of NATO to press the alliance to commit to a more proactive, even preemptive fight against terrorism. "Ours is a military alliance, and every member must make a military contribution to that alliance," he said. " The world needs the nations of this...