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...today is both bleaker and brighter than that in 1991. The AIDS pandemic is cutting through lives and communities like a scythe, threatening to swallow a whole generation. But international policy is coalescing like never before: in a historic summit, more than 30 African heads of state gathered in Nigeria last month for an AIDS conference. African leadership must be the core of any strategy to combat the epidemic. Now, after tragic years lost, it seems that such leadership is beginning to emerge. At that meeting, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called on the leaders to multiply their health budgets...
...crossroads. We can seize the opportunity to fight AIDS, or we can do what we did last time-let our plans fade away and avert our eyes as thousands perish day by day. President Bill Clinton, along for the ride in Nigeria, suggested that the U.S. donate a quarter of the needed money. That's the first path. The Bush administration took a hesitant step down the second path last week by announcing its first contribution to the fund: $200 million. As Oxfam has said, the administration left off a zero. If the richest country in world history...
...address the crisis [MEDICINE, March 19]. American-based pharmaceutical giants have not upheld the fine tradition of scientists like Alexander Fleming and Marie Curie, who had no greed. The onus rests on African nations to import or, better yet, produce cheap generic AIDS drugs. LULUFA KUNDUL VONGTAU Kaduna, Nigeria...
...Central Bank of Nigeria has denied any role, even going so far as to take out full-page ads in The Washington Post and USA Today in 1998 to warn Americans about the scam...
Nigerian police have arrested dozens of people involved in various incarnations of the scheme, and Secret Service agents have been stationed in Nigeria at the U.S. Embassy to help combat the scam...