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...policy-and-advocacy body, DATA, met with five of the eight heads of state at the summit--the G-8 approved an unprecedented $50 billion aid package--including $25 billion for Africa--and pledged near universal access to antiretroviral drugs for almost 10 million impoverished people with HIV...
Doing the right thing doesn't only help protect the brand. It also can help secure future resources and markets. Consider the corporate response to the HIV pandemic. "AIDS is like a laser-guided missile targeting the most productive segments of economies and societies," says Trevor Neilsen, executive director of the Global Business Coalition Against HIV/ AIDS (gbc). The epidemic in emerging economies such as India and China, he notes, threatens the future health of global commerce. As many as 30% of the employees at certain mines in Africa are infected. The severity of the crisis has prompted mining giants...
...their sales. Last month, after South African newspapers began reporting allegations that Zuma had raped a family friend, there was a noticeable falling off in public campaigning on his behalf. The politician has reportedly told friends he had engaged in consensual sex with the woman, a well known HIV-positive AIDS activist, but had never raped her. "I regard these allegations against me very seriously as I abhor any form of abuse against women," Zuma said in a statement after he was charged with rape...
...women are getting pregnant in a culture in which single motherhood is still taboo. A survey by Shanghai medical researcher Yan Fengting found that 65% of urban women undergoing abortions in 2004 were single, compared with just 25% in 1999. Rates of sexually transmitted diseases are skyrocketing too, with HIV infections growing most quickly among Chinese 15 to 24 years old. Brothels barely disguised as beauty salons crowd the streets of China's big cities, while certain suburbs are known as "concubine villages" because of their high concentration of mistresses...
...years at the University of California, Berkeley, working out how to trick E. coli microbes into churning out synthetic and beneficial versions of plant products. He was particularly interested in molecules known as terpenoids, like artemisinin, which treats malaria; taxol, an anticancer drug; and prostratin, a potential anti-HIV compound...