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...shuttling between Lincoln and Omaha last week for good reason, however. My book, "Big Red," is about the USS Nebraska Trident submarine, and much to the astonishment of my publisher, it's selling briskly in Nebraska. "Big Red" is the nickname of the USS Nebraska, which the sub adopted from the nickname for the University of Nebraska football team. Anything with "Big Red" printed on it sells well in the Cornhusker State...
...protease inhibitor Crixivan, to Africa at the reduced price of $600 per year. AIDS drugs typically cost between $10,000 and $15,000 per year. Needless to say, because of these exorbitantly high prices, these drugs are out of reach for those most in need--especially those in sub-Saharan Africa, quickly becoming the center of the global AIDS pandemic...
...cruel calculus of the AIDS epidemic, the best anti-AIDS drugs almost never reach the millions of people who need them most. In the face of the widespread epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa--where more than 25 million people are HIV positive--pharmaceutical companies have been under increasing pressure to supply the developing world with cut-rate medicines. But no matter how much they trim prices on a combination-drug regimen that can cost $15,000 a year in the U.S., it's never quite enough to make a dent in countries where per capita annual income is only...
Prevention is one argument for treatment. Community stability is another. Half of the infected in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and AIDS will leave millions of children parentless. Even if the drugs that are available can only preserve life by 10-15 years, those years are critical if communities are to survive. And beyond either of these arguments is a basic humanitarian obligation. With effective life-extending AIDS drugs available at prices below $1,000 a year, allowing millions to perish would be a monstrous sin of omission...
...short term after succeeding stroke-felled Keizo Obuchi, Mori has been a spectacularly tone-deaf politician even for Japan's doddering ruling elite. This is a man who decided to finish his round of golf after being told of the Greeneville sub disaster - and no one was particularly surprised. For the past decade, Japan's slow slide and slower internal response have been marginally better cause in the U.S. for schadenfreude than sympathy. But feeling superior is one thing; getting dragged into the tar pit of global depression by the industrialized world's most stubbornly ineffectual government is quite another...