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...continent is that of Uganda, where those trained to work on the pilot program stayed on and, with support from Uganda's president and international donors, cut the rate of new infections by more than half. If the program had continued, it is possible that the rest of sub-Saharan Africa could look like Uganda...
There's been a lot of grim news lately about HIV and AIDS: Rising infections among high-risk U.S. communities, continued risk behaviors, and plague-level infection rates across sub-Saharan Africa. In the face of such bad tidings, the latest news about emerging treatments couldn't have emerged at a better time...
...Iraq are among the worst off. ? Asia and the Pacific have more chronically hungry people than elsewhere, says the FAO, but the "depth of hunger" - a calculation based on what energy they get from their food and the minimum energy needed to maintain body weight - is greatest in sub-Saharan Africa, home to some of the world's poorest countries. There, some 186 million people - more than a third of the population - are considered undernourished. ? In many sub-Saharan countries, according to a report by the World Water Council, the average per capita water-use rates...
Drug companies have long skirted criticism of their fat profits by pointing to the huge financial risks they take to develop life-saving medicines. But lately that argument hasn't worked so well. The AIDS pandemic ravaging sub-Saharan Africa, where 25 million people are dying from the disease, has given rise to an alliance of activists, health professionals and politicians who accuse multinational pharmaceutical firms of pricing their AIDS-fighting drugs out of the reach of poor countries while greedily blocking the production of generic copies. That has stunned the industry into a price war in reverse...
...drugs from major pharmaceuticals at deep discounts. Jeffrey Sachs, the economist who headed the study, says the initial cost for such a program would top $1 billion a year and would climb to $3 billion annually within five years; by comparison, Sachs says total annual U.S. aid to sub-Saharan African during the 1990s averaged just $150 million. But, Sachs points out, America's gross national product is now $10 trillion. So "each billion means one cent out of every $100 that America earns each year. We're advocating two cents to save 5 million lives." Given the stakes...