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South African President Thabo Mbeki had resisted developing a national plan to provide antiretroviral drugs and even questioned the link between HIV and AIDS . What brought him around? There was always in South Africa - including in the government - people who really wanted to do something. I understood how President Mbeki got to where...
Today, sub-Saharan Africa hemorrhages more money in debt payments each year than it spends on health and education combined. Nations that lack the resources to provide basic services for their citizens—less than one percent of HIV positive Africans have access to treatment—must allocate large portions of their budgets to debt payments. Around the globe, poor nations struggling toward growth are finding their efforts stymied by debilitating debt burdens. Even in those cases where countries incurred debt under legitimate regimes, it hardly seems fair to put the interests of rich creditors before the satisfaction...
...funding. More recently, Bush went even further by withholding $34 million appropriated to the U.N. Population Fund on the baseless fear that the group may be promoting abortion. This only leaves the dozens other U.N.-aided countries affected with less access not only to reproductive health care but also HIV testing, AIDS prevention, safe and sanitary birthing and even blood transfusions. Bush’s anti-women action endangers the futures and lives of millions abroad...
...this, he took a data set provided by Virco Group—a Belgium-based biotech company—containing both sequences of the protease genome and measurements of the amount of amprenavir necessary to inhibit replication of HIV by 50 percent for 2,747 patients...
Normally, ordered data values may be parameterized, establishing a relationship between genotype and phenotype. However, according to DiRienzo, with the HIV drug resistance genotype, not only are amino acid values unordered, but there are almost an infinitessimal number of possible combinations of amino acids and thus an even higher number of possible genotype patterns. Thus, the only practical way of analyzing the data is through non-parametric methods...