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...Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases Phyllis Kanki received a $107 million grant to address AIDS in Africa as part of President Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. The grant is meant to pay for the treatment of thousands of AIDS patients in Botswana, Nigeria and Tanzania. But last summer, University officials imposed a centralized management structure on Kanki as well as a provision tantamount to a gag order that prevents her from talking to the government, even though she was the recipient of the grant...
Under the terms of the grant, Harvard must treat thousands of AIDS patients each year for five years with anti-viral drugs and implement clinical drug delivery mechanisms in Botswana, Nigeria, and Tanzania...
...centralized socialist state, Tanzania has bolstered democratic institutions to a surprising extent. The country's constitution was amended last year to include, for the first time, a bill of rights guaranteeing fundamental freedoms, to strengthen the 244-seat Parliament and to provide for the direct election of more of its members. The President can still order preventive detention for as long as six months, but the names of those detained must now be published, and the legality of detentions can be challenged in the courts, which are refreshingly independent...
Nyerere's successor is regarded by Western diplomats in Dar es Salaam as a pragmatic politician who has helped maintain Zanzibar's tenuous link to the mainland at a time when Tanzania's pervasive economic problems have caused many Zanzibarians to question the value of that union. A Muslim, Mwinyi is expected to continue Nyerere's socialist economic policies, despite their mixed results. As for Nyerere, he will retain the important post of party chairman for at least the next two years. He plans to travel extensively throughout Tanzania in an effort to restore the peasants' somewhat diminished faith...
...Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the government program entrusted with disbursing $15 billion to help eradicate AIDS in Africa. The grant commits Harvard to treating thousands of patients a year with anti-viral drugs and implementing clinical drug delivery mechanisms in three African countries—Botswana, Nigeria, and Tanzania...