• Focus On: Trade Talks Threaten Access to Life-Saving Drugs

    , Mon 7 May, 10:18 am 2012

    In a wide-ranging interview with allAfrica's Sue Valentine, the president of Médecins Sans Frontières, Dr. Unni Karunakara, warns that health care gains may be reversed if funding is not maintained.

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    • Africa: Trade Talks Threaten Access to Aids Drugs

      allAfrica.com, 7 May 2012

      Humanitarian aid has come a long way in the last 40 years, says the international president of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Dr. Unni Karunakara, but he warns that important health care gains made in the last decade may be reversed if funding is not maintained.

  • ras sideeq
    May 8 2012, 06:37

    NEVER COULD HAVE SAID THAT BETTER. WE NEED TO INFORM CHILDREN WHILE IN SCHOOOL THAT WE NEED ACTIVE MINDS TO JOIN THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITITTIES SO THAT AS AFRICANS WE CAN DEVELOP DRUGS AND MEDICINES TO SHAPE THE FUTURE, THAT WE AS A PEOPLE, WILL NEVER AGAIN BE USED BY THOSE TO INSTILL FEAR AND GENOCIDE IN OUR COMUNITIES./ THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY WE ARE NOT WHERE EUROPE AND THE REST OF THE WEST IS;"T IS IMPERATIVE WE DO FOR SELVES" IN CONTRAST THEY DID EVERYTHING WRONG THEIR WORLD WAS A SHAMBLES. WE NEED UNITY FIRST AND FOREMOST THEN WE MUST RECOGNISE THAT WE ARE IN EARLY STAGES OF RESEARCH AN DEVELOPMENT. WE MUST LOOK PAST AND FIND EMEDIES FOR THE FUTURE. IF I MIGHT TOUCH ON HOW WE LIVED RIGHT AT THE TIME OF INETFERNCE AND JEALOUSY. WE HAD EVERYTHING AT OUR DISPOSAL TREES BUSHES ROOTS MEDICINES THAT WE WERE ABLE TO USE AS SUSTENANCE FOE THOUSANDS OF YEARS WHAT WE FORGET IS THAT THOUGH THEY THEMSELVES ARE THE ENEMY THAT CREATED THESE DRUGS AS THEY DO WITH THOUSANDS OF DRUGS THEY CALL BIOLOGICAL WAR FARE USSAGES. THIS WAS A CORRUPTION OF THE ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM THEY HAVE CORRUPTED EVERY FACET OF LIFE THIS THEIR WORLD. WE MUST STEP TO CONTRADICT THIS WORD WITH I USE THE WORD RIGHTEOUSS BECAUSE IT IS DEEP IN MEANING IT MEANS PIETY IT MEANS REALY TRUTH GIVING AND A CLEANSER OFR SOUL TO ACHIVE REDEMPTION SO WE MUST AGAIN FIND REMEIDES THAT ARE PLEASANT TO OUR ENVIRON MENT THAT DOES NOT HAVE THESE SIDE EFFECTS THAT PRODUCE ALL THE MISNOMERS OF PRESENT D DRUGS. THIS IS A BIG ASK WHER EI SOUR DICPLINE HAVE WE FORGOTTEN. DICPLINE WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS COMMONIN EVERYDAY LIFE. I WILL SUGGEST TO YOU WHY MUSLIMS PRAY FIVE TIMES A DAY THEY WANT TO DISMISS ANY FORMS OF ILLEGALITIES CORRUPTION OR DEVIATIONS THAT MIGHT TAKE THEM AWAY FROM THE TASK OF SERVING TH "ALL MIGHTY GOD". THEY ALSO WANT TO STAY TRUE TO THEIR DEVELOPMENT AS HUMAN BEINGS. THSE BELIEFS COULD NEVER BEWRONG WHEN THEY ARE PART AND PARCEL OF A BIGGER PRINCIPLE OF BRINGING UNITING AND DEVELOPING A NATION ALONG THE LINES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. WE CAN NOT HAVE3 BOTH SYSTEMS SIDE AND SIDE. THIS WHY OUR GREAT DFENDER JESUS PEACE BE UPON HIM SAID THAT " WE CAN NOT HAVE TWO MASTERS WE EITHER GONNA LOVE THE ONE OR HATE THE OTHER" RESEARCH IS VERY IMPORTANT TO MAKE EVERYTHING THAT WAS WRONG RIGHT. IT IS OUR JOB TO REDEFINE A RIGHTEOUSS WAY OF LIVING ONE THAT WAS DECREED BY OUR ELDERS THRU THEIR LONGEVITY AND UNDOUBETD GENIUS INTELLECT. WHAT EVER HAS BEEN TOLD TO US WE RECOGNISE THAT AFRICA WAS UTOPIA. THERE WERE FRUITS VEGETABLE ANIMALS OF EVERY DISCRIPTION LIVING AS ONE , CRIME AND DELUGE WAS ABSENT IN AFRICA, UTOPIA IS NOT A BETTER WORD. . SHOULD THE PEOPLE BEEN UNWORTHY OF SUCH LIVES THEY WOULD NOT HAVE HAD IT. WHAT WE MUST CONCENTRATE ON IS THAT TODAY WE MUST LOOK AT THE FUTURE AND HOW TO REPLACE OUR HERITAGE WITH THE MODERN SURVIVAL TECHNIQUES THE NECCESARRYSCIENTIFIC MECHNACICAL ABSOLOUTES WITHOUT ANY FURTHER DAMAGE TO OUR ENVIRONMENTS. WE ARE DISCOVERING THAT WE HAVE GAS OIL AND SO ON THE MIDEAST IS STILL AFRICA BUT THESE THINGS SHOULD NOT SURPRISE YOU LET US BE CLEAR," AFRICA IS THE BREAD BASKET OF THE EARTH". WE SUPPLY ALL THE WORLDS NEEDS. EVERY SINGLE TREE EVERY ANIMAL ON THE PLANET HAS ITS ROOTS IN AFRICA. WHEN WE LOOK AT CANNABIS THIS IS GREAT DRUG EVEN THE POPPY IN AFGHANISTAN IN SOUTH EAST ASIA THE COCCOA LEAVES IN SOUTH AMERICA. WE BROUGHT THESE PLANTS TO PEOPLES ROUND THE WORLD AND USED THEM FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES THIS AGAIN IS THE VIEW THAT WE TRAVELED AS LEARNED PRACTIONERS OF ALL MEDICINES , WE USED BOTANY AS TH MEANS FOR TREATMENT BOTANY AND CULTIVATION WERE TAUGHT WITH DISTINCTION STUDENST HAD TO KNOW THESE THINGS TO BEABLE TO SUPPLY MEDICINES AND DO NOT GET IT TWISTED THE EDUCATIONAL PROCCESS WAS TAUGHT FROM VERY EARLY BECAUSE UNLIKE TH WHITES EVRYTHING WAS TAUGHT TO MEMORY. DO NOT BE DENIED YOUR GLORY WE BUILT THE PYRAMIDS WITHOUT PEN AND PAPER WE BUILT ASTRONOMICAL MONUMENST WITHJOUT PEN AND PAPER. THESE ARE FEATS UNEQUATED TODAY. THE ART OF SUCH LESSONS WER LOST AS CULTURES FROM OUTSIDE CAME IN AND DOMINATED WHAT THEY COULD NEVER OVERSTAND. THIS WAS WHY THEY ATTRRIBUTED EVERYTHING TONEGATIVITY. WE SEE THIS IN MALI TODAY JUST LIKE WHNE THEY BURNED THE UNIVERSITY OF TIMBUKTU DISCRIBING ALL BOOKS A HERITIC. NOT REALISNG THAT THESE WERE MANUCRIPTS THAT OUR FORE BEARERS HAD TO USE TO DEFINE TO THOSE WHO HAD NOT THE CAPACITY OF MENTAL RETENTIONM. THIS ALO WAS WHY THE QUARAAN WAS TAUGHT FROM MEMORY THIS AGAIN IS THE TRADITION OF THE AFRICAN NOT THE TRADITION OF THE ILLITERATE MATHEMATICS IN ALL SPHERES WERE ATUGHT TO THOSE WHO WISHED TO EXCELL IN THESE DYNAMICS. WHATEVER THE AFRICAN WAS TAUGHT IT WAS SLATED TO BE MEMORISED.ALL THE THINGS THAT IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE TO DAY WE HAD TO RMEMBER AND MOREWE HAD TO KNOW HISTORY OF MILLIONS OF YEARS THE LESSONS BECAME EVEN MORE INTENSE BUT THE COMPUTER THAT WE SEE TODAY IS NOT BIGGER THAN YOUR CAPACITY TOMRETAIN INFORMATION OS DO NOT FRGET THEAT. JUST TO TOUCH ON CANNABIS FOUND ON SOLOMONS TOMB THEN WE SEE ITS CULTIVATION IN THE CARRIBEAN AND CENTRAL SOUTH AMERICA IT WAS BROUGHT THERE IN THE TIMES OF BLACK RULE. SEEDS WAS WAY TO HELP THOSE IN NEED IN DISTANT LANDS. WE MUST RESUMS THE PRACTISE AS WE SEE THAT THE WEST IS NOT CHNGING GREED AND SELFISHNESS CORRUPTION AND INIQUITY IS THERE FORTE'. WE AS THE FIRTS PIONEERS OF ALL THINGS RIGHTEOUSS MUST MAKE THINGS RIGHT, MEDICINES ENGINEERING AND WHAT EVER WE DEEM TO BE THE WAY FOR OUR SALVATION AND EMPOWERMENT.WE NEED TO GIVE OUR CHILDREN THE KEYS TO THE PUZZLE.IF WE BUILD AIRCRAFT IT MUST BE FREINDLY IT MUST BE COMFORTABLE AND IT MUST BEDURABLE. WE NEED TO LOOK MORE AT EVEN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AS WAYS FORWARD WE KNOW NOW THAT THEY MISUSED THE ENERGIES OF NUCLEAR RESEARCH. WE CAN DO THIS BUT THE EDUCATION OF OUR YOUNGSTERS HAVE TO START VERY EARLY THEY MUST BE CHALLENGED FROM THEY ENTER THE CLASS ROOMS THEY MUST BETAUGHT AS ADULTS WHO ARE BEING BROUGHT UP AS ADULTS. WHEN A CHILD IS BORN HE IS DEFINED AS A MAN OR WOMAN NOT BOY OR GIRL. WE RAISE MAN CHILD AND WOMAN CHIDL . MOST CHILDREN IN AFRICA BORN OUT SIDE OF MAINSTREET HAS T BECOME RSPONSIBLE AT AVERY EARLY AGE THEY ASSUME RESPONSIBILITIES OF ADULTS. SO WE MUST AT SCHOOL LEVELS EDUCATE THEM AS IF THEY WERE THE FUTURE. WHEN WHITES SPEAK TO THEIR CHILDREN THEY INTRODUCE THEM TO VOCABULARY THAT STRETCHES THEIR IMAGINATION THEY SPEAK ABOUT POLITICS THEY SPEAK ABBOUT WHAT THEY DO THEY SPEAK TO THEM AS TJOUGH IT WAS THERE PERS THEY SPOKJE TO. WE NEED FOR CHILDREN TO BE TAUGHT ON THAT LEVEL. EVEN THEY SHOULD BE EQUAL IN OUR SIGHTS IF WE WANT THEM TO SUCCEED. THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THEY BECOME RUDE AND INSOLENT ITR SIMPLY MEANS THAT THEY LEARN HONOUR DECORUMS OF HUMILITY AND RIGHTEOUSS JUDGEMNETS TO MAKE IN LIFE. THEY SHOUDL ALS LEARN THAT WE AS A PEOPLE HAVE BEEN UNDERMINED FOR CENTURIES BUT IT IS NOT BEYOND US TO SHORTEN THE GAP AND SURPASS OUR AGRESSORS. ATKE STOCK TODAY AND REVIVE OUR ILLUSTRIOUS HISTORIES.

  • ras sideeq
    May 8 2012, 06:41

    NEVER COULD HAVE SAID THAT BETTER. WE NEED TO INFORM CHILDREN WHILE IN SCHOOOL THAT WE NEED ACTIVE MINDS TO JOIN THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITITTIES SO THAT AS AFRICANS WE CAN DEVELOP DRUGS AND MEDICINES TO SHAPE THE FUTURE, THAT WE AS A PEOPLE, WILL NEVER AGAIN BE USED BY THOSE TO INSTILL FEAR AND GENOCIDE IN OUR COMUNITIES./ THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY WE ARE NOT WHERE EUROPE AND THE REST OF THE WEST IS;"T IS IMPERATIVE WE DO FOR SELVES" IN CONTRAST THEY DID EVERYTHING WRONG THEIR WORLD WAS A SHAMBLES. WE NEED UNITY FIRST AND FOREMOST THEN WE MUST RECOGNISE THAT WE ARE IN EARLY STAGES OF RESEARCH AN DEVELOPMENT. WE MUST LOOK PAST AND FIND EMEDIES FOR THE FUTURE. IF I MIGHT TOUCH ON HOW WE LIVED RIGHT AT THE TIME OF INETFERNCE AND JEALOUSY. WE HAD EVERYTHING AT OUR DISPOSAL TREES BUSHES ROOTS MEDICINES THAT WE WERE ABLE TO USE AS SUSTENANCE FOE THOUSANDS OF YEARS WHAT WE FORGET IS THAT THOUGH THEY THEMSELVES ARE THE ENEMY THAT CREATED THESE DRUGS AS THEY DO WITH THOUSANDS OF DRUGS THEY CALL BIOLOGICAL WAR FARE USSAGES. THIS WAS A CORRUPTION OF THE ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM THEY HAVE CORRUPTED EVERY FACET OF LIFE THIS THEIR WORLD. WE MUST STEP TO CONTRADICT THIS WORD WITH I USE THE WORD RIGHTEOUSS BECAUSE IT IS DEEP IN MEANING IT MEANS PIETY IT MEANS REALY TRUTH GIVING AND A CLEANSER OFR SOUL TO ACHIVE REDEMPTION SO WE MUST AGAIN FIND REMEIDES THAT ARE PLEASANT TO OUR ENVIRON MENT THAT DOES NOT HAVE THESE SIDE EFFECTS THAT PRODUCE ALL THE MISNOMERS OF PRESENT D DRUGS. THIS IS A BIG ASK WHER EI SOUR DICPLINE HAVE WE FORGOTTEN. DICPLINE WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS COMMON IN EVERYDAY LIFE. I WILL SUGGEST TO YOU WHY MUSLIMS PRAY FIVE TIMES A DAY THEY WANT TO DISMISS ANY FORMS OF ILLEGALITIES CORRUPTION OR DEVIATIONS THAT MIGHT TAKE THEM AWAY FROM THE TASK OF SERVING TH "ALL MIGHTY GOD". THEY ALSO WANT TO STAY TRUE TO THEIR DEVELOPMENT AS HUMAN BEINGS. THSE BELIEFS COULD NEVER BE WRONG WHEN THEY ARE PART AND PARCEL OF A BIGGER PRINCIPLE OF BRINGING UNITING AND DEVELOPING A NATION ALONG THE LINES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. WE CAN NOT HAVE BOTH SYSTEMS SIDE AND SIDE. THIS WHY OUR GREAT DFENDER "JESUS PEACE BE UPON HIM"THAT " WE CAN NOT HAVE TWO MASTERS WE EITHER GONNA LOVE THE ONE OR HATE THE OTHER" RESEARCH IS VERY IMPORTANT TO MAKE EVERYTHING THAT WAS WRONG RIGHT. IT IS OUR JOB TO REDEFINE A RIGHTEOUSS WAY OF LIVING ONE THAT WAS DECREED BY OUR ELDERS THRU THEIR LONGEVITY AND UNDOUBETD GENIUS INTELLECT. WHAT EVER HAS BEEN TOLD TO US WE RECOGNISE THAT AFRICA WAS UTOPIA. THERE WERE FRUITS VEGETABLE ANIMALS OF EVERY DISCRIPTION LIVING AS ONE , CRIME AND DELUGE WAS ABSENT IN AFRICA, UTOPIA IS NOT A BETTER WORD. . SHOULD THE PEOPLE BEEN UNWORTHY OF SUCH LIVES THEY WOULD NOT HAVE HAD IT. WHAT WE MUST CONCENTRATE ON IS THAT TODAY WE MUST LOOK AT THE FUTURE AND HOW TO REPLACE OUR HERITAGE WITH THE MODERN SURVIVAL TECHNIQUES THE NECCESARRYSCIENTIFIC MECHNACICAL ABSOLOUTES WITHOUT ANY FURTHER DAMAGE TO OUR ENVIRONMENTS. WE ARE DISCOVERING THAT WE HAVE GAS OIL AND SO ON THE MIDEAST IS STILL AFRICA BUT THESE THINGS SHOULD NOT SURPRISE YOU LET US BE CLEAR," AFRICA IS THE BREAD BASKET OF THE EARTH". WE SUPPLY ALL THE WORLDS NEEDS. EVERY SINGLE TREE EVERY ANIMAL ON THE PLANET HAS ITS ROOTS IN AFRICA. WHEN WE LOOK AT CANNABIS THIS IS GREAT DRUG EVEN THE POPPY IN AFGHANISTAN IN SOUTH EAST ASIA THE COCCOA LEAVES IN SOUTH AMERICA. WE BROUGHT THESE PLANTS TO PEOPLES ROUND THE WORLD AND USED THEM FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES THIS AGAIN IS THE VIEW THAT WE TRAVELED AS LEARNED PRACTIONERS OF ALL MEDICINES , WE USED BOTANY AS TH MEANS FOR TREATMENT BOTANY AND CULTIVATION WERE TAUGHT WITH DISTINCTION STUDENST HAD TO KNOW THESE THINGS TO BEABLE TO SUPPLY MEDICINES AND DO NOT GET IT TWISTED THE EDUCATIONAL PROCCESS WAS TAUGHT FROM VERY EARLY BECAUSE UNLIKE TH WHITES EVRYTHING WAS TAUGHT TO MEMORY. DO NOT BE DENIED YOUR GLORY WE BUILT THE PYRAMIDS WITHOUT PEN AND PAPER WE BUILT ASTRONOMICAL MONUMENST WITHOUT PEN AND PAPER. THESE ARE FEATS UNEQUATED TODAY. THE ART OF SUCH LESSONS WERE LOST AS CULTURES FROM OUTSIDE CAME IN AND DOMINATED WHAT THEY COULD NEVER OVERSTAND. THIS WAS WHY THEY ATRIBUTED EVERYTHING TO NEGATIVITY. WE SEE THIS IN MALI TODAY JUST LIKE WHEN THEY BURNED "THE UNIVERSITY OF TIMBUKTU" DISCRIBING ALL BOOKS A HERITIC. NOT REALISNG THAT THESE WERE MANUCRIPTS THAT OUR FORE BEARERS HAD TO USE TO DEFINE TO THOSE WHO HAD NOT THE CAPACITY OF MENTAL RETENTIONM. THIS ALO WAS WHY THE QUARAAN WAS TAUGHT FROM MEMORY THIS AGAIN IS THE TRADITION OF THE AFRICAN NOT THE TRADITION OF THE ILLITERATE MATHEMATICS IN ALL SPHERES WERE ATUGHT TO THOSE WHO WISHED TO EXCELL IN THESE DYNAMICS. WHATEVER THE AFRICAN WAS TAUGHT IT WAS SLATED TO BE MEMORISED.ALL THE THINGS THAT IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE TO DAY WE HAD TO RMEMBER AND MOREWE HAD TO KNOW HISTORY OF MILLIONS OF YEARS THE LESSONS BECAME EVEN MORE INTENSE BUT THE COMPUTER THAT WE SEE TODAY IS NOT BIGGER THAN YOUR CAPACITY TOMRETAIN INFORMATION OS DO NOT FRGET THEAT. JUST TO TOUCH ON CANNABIS FOUND ON SOLOMONS TOMB THEN WE SEE ITS CULTIVATION IN THE CARRIBEAN AND CENTRAL SOUTH AMERICA IT WAS BROUGHT THERE IN THE TIMES OF BLACK RULE. SEEDS WAS WAY TO HELP THOSE IN NEED IN DISTANT LANDS. WE MUST RESUMS THE PRACTISE AS WE SEE THAT THE WEST IS NOT CHNGING GREED AND SELFISHNESS CORRUPTION AND INIQUITY IS THERE FORTE'. WE AS THE FIRTS PIONEERS OF ALL THINGS RIGHTEOUSS MUST MAKE THINGS RIGHT, MEDICINES ENGINEERING AND WHAT EVER WE DEEM TO BE THE WAY FOR OUR SALVATION AND EMPOWERMENT.WE NEED TO GIVE OUR CHILDREN THE KEYS TO THE PUZZLE.IF WE BUILD AIRCRAFT IT MUST BE FREINDLY IT MUST BE COMFORTABLE AND IT MUST BEDURABLE. WE NEED TO LOOK MORE AT EVEN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AS WAYS FORWARD WE KNOW NOW THAT THEY MISUSED THE ENERGIES OF NUCLEAR RESEARCH. WE CAN DO THIS BUT THE EDUCATION OF OUR YOUNGSTERS HAVE TO START VERY EARLY THEY MUST BE CHALLENGED FROM THEY ENTER THE CLASS ROOMS THEY MUST BETAUGHT AS ADULTS WHO ARE BEING BROUGHT UP AS ADULTS. WHEN A CHILD IS BORN HE IS DEFINED AS A MAN OR WOMAN NOT BOY OR GIRL. WE RAISE MAN CHILD AND WOMAN CHIDL . MOST CHILDREN IN AFRICA BORN OUT SIDE OF MAINSTREET HAS T BECOME RSPONSIBLE AT AVERY EARLY AGE THEY ASSUME RESPONSIBILITIES OF ADULTS. SO WE MUST AT SCHOOL LEVELS EDUCATE THEM AS IF THEY WERE THE FUTURE. WHEN WHITES SPEAK TO THEIR CHILDREN THEY INTRODUCE THEM TO VOCABULARY THAT STRETCHES THEIR IMAGINATION THEY SPEAK ABOUT POLITICS THEY SPEAK ABBOUT WHAT THEY DO THEY SPEAK TO THEM AS TJOUGH IT WAS THERE PERS THEY SPOKJE TO. WE NEED FOR CHILDREN TO BE TAUGHT ON THAT LEVEL. EVEN THEY SHOULD BE EQUAL IN OUR SIGHTS IF WE WANT THEM TO SUCCEED. THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THEY BECOME RUDE AND INSOLENT ITR SIMPLY MEANS THAT THEY LEARN HONOUR DECORUMS OF HUMILITY AND RIGHTEOUSS JUDGEMNETS TO MAKE IN LIFE. THEY SHOUDL ALS LEARN THAT WE AS A PEOPLE HAVE BEEN UNDERMINED FOR CENTURIES BUT IT IS NOT BEYOND US TO SHORTEN THE GAP AND SURPASS OUR AGRESSORS. ATKE STOCK TODAY AND REVIVE OUR ILLUSTRIOUS HISTORIES.