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...Percentage of those with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa who are women...
Utilitarian philosopher and Princeton Professor Peter Singer offers a conservative estimate that by donating $200 to a charity that fights starvation and disease in sub-Saharan Africa, you can save one human life by saving a child from an early death. The U.N. estimates that 70 million people will die of the AIDS in the next 20 years alone. At present, the disease turns another child into an orphan every 14 seconds. We cannot put African AIDS patients ahead of our family members when we decide how to spend money. However, we can give up trivial possessions and unnecessary indulgences...
...Sub-Saharan Africa has just one phone line for every 70 people, in contrast to almost one per person in the U.S. and Europe. But by using cell-phone technology, Africa hopes to leapfrog a stage in development, just as parts of Asia have done. In the past six years the number of mobile connections in Africa has jumped from 2 million to 35 million...
...independence in 1980, Zimbabwe was one of the great hopes of sub-Saharan Africa. But after twenty-two years under the rule of President Robert Mugabe and his governing Zanu-PF party, the country is a disaster on the brink of widespread famine and economic ruin. As a result of this catastrophic reversal of fortunes, the situation in Zimbabwe has been the focus of a great deal of attention. Although land reform must go forward in Zimbabwe to fix the unequal legacy left by colonization, Mugabe’s dictatorial regime has been causing more problems than it has solved...
...Africa, however, infection levels are at an all-time high. The disease is a particular concern in frontier areas with new agricultural and irrigation projects, including the Amazon, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa...