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...Hyman flew to Botswana and South Africa to visit some of the AIDS treatment clinics set up by School of Public Health (SPH) researchers. Summers had withheld millions of dollars in government funding while altering the program’s administrative structure. A Nigerian doctor told The Crimson last month that up to 400 people waiting for treatment died while the purchase of drugs was delayed...
Professor John Idoko, chair of infectious diseases at Jos University Teaching Hospital in Jos, Nigeria and head of one of SPH’s Nigerian clinics, criticized the University for the delay...
...allegations. The Sierra Leone court, Western governments and human-rights groups are cranking up pressure on Nigeria to hand Taylor, who faces 17 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the brutal conflict in Sierra Leone, over to the court for prosecution. But Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo says that, short of "irrefutable evidence" that Taylor has committed crimes from Nigeria, he will extradite Taylor only to Liberia. "The President keeps asking to see the evidence," says Obasanjo spokeswoman Remi Oyo, who points out that Nigeria agreed to grant Taylor asylum under pressure from Western nations...
...thrive: the Nigerian case load grew from 202 new victims in 2002 to 355 in 2003, then jumped to 792 in 2004. And although vaccinations resumed last summer, by then it was too late to put the genie back in the bottle. Cases of polio genetically consistent with the Nigerian strain had begun popping up, in succession, in more than 10 neighboring countries, including Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire and Sudan. Last November the same virus appeared in Saudi Arabia, two months before the hajj, when 2 million Muslims from around the world descended on Mecca...
...spread be reversed? For now, the numbers remain relatively tiny. As of last week, the global new-case count for 2005 was still only 124. Even combined with last year's Nigerian totals, that's microscopic, epidemiologically speaking, in a world in which more than 1 million people die each year of malaria and 3 million die of AIDS. But big contagions start small. What's more, only 1 in 200 cases of polio actually causes paralysis, with the rest simply leading to fever, flu-like symptoms or no apparent illness at all. That means that for every child with...