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...specialist working with Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) researchers on AIDS treatment in Nigeria said yesterday that up to 400 people may have died while waiting for treatment that was to be paid for by funds that were delayed for five months by Mass. Hall...
Professor John Idoko, chair of infectious diseases at Jos University Teaching Hospital in Jos, Nigeria and head of one of SPH’s Nigerian clinics, said that at least 1000 AIDS-infected patients were on a waiting list for anti-retroviral drugs that were supposed to be purchased by Harvard in March 2004. The funding for those drugs was not released by the University until the end of last July and some of those patients died while waiting for them...
...conscience of Nigeria,” said W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. in his welcome speech, “If democracy in…the world’s most populous black nation has a voice and a face, they belong to Wole Soyinka...
...Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases Phyllis Kanki received a $107 million grant to address AIDS in Africa as part of President Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. The grant is meant to pay for the treatment of thousands of AIDS patients in Botswana, Nigeria and Tanzania. But last summer, University officials imposed a centralized management structure on Kanki as well as a provision tantamount to a gag order that prevents her from talking to the government, even though she was the recipient of the grant...
Under the terms of the grant, Harvard must treat thousands of AIDS patients each year for five years with anti-viral drugs and implement clinical drug delivery mechanisms in Botswana, Nigeria, and Tanzania...