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...profit organization that helps young people affected by the 1994 Rwandan genocide attain a university education. Farmer and Ellis, whose organizations have worked together in Rwanda, emphasized that international aid should be flexible and should rely on locals, not outsiders, to implement change. When working to fight HIV infection of infants in Rwanda, “There was only one American, and the rest were locals that we trained,” Farmer said. Saving lives depends on more than medicine, he said. In Rwanda, casserole pots, water jugs, and kerosene stoves were the keys to ensuring that mothers would...

Author: By Alison E. Schumer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Farmer Discusses Aid Through Local Action | 12/7/2007 | See Source »

...away from its Marxist faith and toward the free market. But that same contrarian instinct is also behind the positions for which he has been most harshly criticized: his refusal to condemn Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, and his skepticism, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, that hiv is the principal cause of aids. Granted, his behind-the-scenes diplomacy has shown some success in forging a compromise between Mugabe and the opposition. Mbeki also has a point that some foreign activists assume a patrician, even racist, tone toward Africa's aids problem, and that factors such as poverty also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...article "U.N. Revises HIV Prevalence Estimates" incorrectly stated that Daniel T. Halperin is a professor at the School of Public Health. In fact, he is a senior research scientist...

Author: By and Yiming He, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: U.N. Revises HIV Prevalence Estimates | 11/26/2007 | See Source »

...short run, overestimation might be helpful to get more money, but it will cause confusion in the long run,” he said. “HIV infection rates don’t go down just because of the money...

Author: By and Yiming He, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: U.N. Revises HIV Prevalence Estimates | 11/26/2007 | See Source »

...Over time, people are fixed to one partner, and this really slowed down the HIV infection growth,” Halperin said. “It doesn’t take much money to make these changes happen...

Author: By and Yiming He, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: U.N. Revises HIV Prevalence Estimates | 11/26/2007 | See Source »

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