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...upon the shameful inadequacy of our response to the greatest crisis of our time. This year alone, AIDS killed three million people, and five million more became infected with HIV—new records, both. Prevention efforts are falling far short; AIDS continues to spread unchecked through much of sub-Saharan Africa, and infection rates are rising at alarming speeds in countries such as Russia, India and China. Life-prolonging anti-retroviral drugs are all but unknown throughout most of the globe; in sub-Saharan Africa, treatment is inaccessible for more than 99 percent of those in need. A recent...
...poorest 10 percent; by 1999, it had grown to 122 times. Prior to the victory of the Washington Consensus, Latin America and the Caribbean experienced a 75 percent growth in per capita GDP from 1960 to 1980 but since then has stagnated with total growth of 7 percent. Sub-Saharan Africa actually tumbled 15 percent during this period after experiencing a 34 percent growth in the previous two decades—an era supposedly stifled by onerous tariffs and over-regulation...
...amount of what is good that is happening in the world.... People think the Marshall Plan was really very good. The Marshall Plan provided Europe with an amount of money that was equal to about 2-3 percent of Europe’s GNP each year for four years. Sub-Saharan Africa receives each year about 11 percent of its GNP and it has for the last 20 years. And so yes, there’s certainly a case for more foreign aid in a variety of ways. But a huge amount is happening that is positive, and the things...
...Today, sub-Saharan Africa hemorrhages more money in debt payments each year than it spends on health and education combined. Nations that lack the resources to provide basic services for their citizens—less than one percent of HIV positive Africans have access to treatment—must allocate large portions of their budgets to debt payments. Around the globe, poor nations struggling toward growth are finding their efforts stymied by debilitating debt burdens. Even in those cases where countries incurred debt under legitimate regimes, it hardly seems fair to put the interests of rich creditors before the satisfaction...
...third of today’s 15-year-olds in sub-Saharan Africa will die before they are thirty-five, according to the Harvard AIDS Coalition...