December 02, 2003
Africa: Disabled People 'at Significantly Increased Risk' of HIV Infection
Major gaps in national HIV/Aids prevention campaigns and treatment programs have made disabled people more vulnerable to HIV infection than their non-disabled counterparts,… Read more »
December 01, 2003
Africa: US Religious Leaders Tell President Bush to Do More on Aids
In a letter to U.S. President George W. Bush Monday, 85 inter-faith religious leaders said more effort is needed from the United States if the HIV/Aids fight is to be effective.… Read more »
Africa: Deciding Who Should Be First to Get the Drugs
In Sub-Saharan Africa about 27 million adults are currently living with HIV/Aids. Yet according to the World Health Organisation, just 1% of HIV positive people in the region have… Read more »
Africa: Scale Up Treatment - But Don't Forget Prevention, Says Gayle
As the HIV pandemic has become increasingly prominent as an international public policy issue, Dr. Helene D. Gayle has emerged as a central figure in governmental and… Read more »
November 26, 2003
Africa: HIV/Aids Money, Millennium Challenge Account Funds On Hold As Senate Adjourns
After wrangling over everything from funding energy development to Medicare, the U.S. Senate has fled Washington for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays without managing to… Read more »
November 21, 2003
Africa: Africa Numbers Still Grim But World Bank Has 'Learned', Says Bank Economic Chief
Although four or five countries are doing well, most of Africa is not, says the World Bank's new chief economist, Francois Bourguignon. When you look at the distribution of GDP… Read more »
November 19, 2003
Africa: 'Front Load' Africa's Development, Say UN Humanitarian Aid Coordinators
Foreign assistance has helped Ethiopia get through the droughts and food emergencies that have regularly battered the east African nation over the last five years, says Samuel… Read more »
November 14, 2003
Africa: Community Involvement Necessary For Sustainable Tourism, Say Experts
"Before, we just posed for pictures and let the tourists go. Then we said, 'Wait a minute! We are getting very little benefits from tourism activities,'" says Paramount Chief… Read more »
November 12, 2003
Africa: African Conservationists Highlight Successes
Botswana's President Festus Gontenbanye Mogae speaks on African conservation efforts and wildlife protection at a Thursday symposium in Washington, DC, sponsored by the African… Read more »
October 29, 2003
Africa: HIV in Africa - The "Myth" of Absorptive Capacity
An official of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria says that African nations can effectively absorb and spend more money than has been allocated to the battle… Read more »
October 13, 2003
Africa: Nigeria, Still Attracted by Gold
With five new gold medals obtained this weekend, two of which were won in the men's and women's 100 meter, Nigeria has advanced a giant step in the standings of the 8th All African… Read more »
October 01, 2003
Africa: Panel Begins 'Bold' Examination of U. S. Policy Options
A 15-member panel drawn from government, nongovernmental and private sector institutions has began a review of U. S. policy towards Africa with the aim of making bold… Read more »
Africa: Kansteiner To Leave Top Africa Post, Key Embassies in Transition
Walter Kansteiner, the Bush administration's senior African policy official, is preparing to leave his post at the State Department after just over two years as assistant secretary… Read more »
Africa: Closing Address by Yoshiro Mori, Chairperson of Ticad III
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September 29, 2003
Africa: Japan Pledges $1bn to Africa at Ticad 'Without Strings'
Japanese Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, opened a major conference Monday in Tokyo on development in Africa, with a billion dollar pledge in grant aid for the poorest continent… Read more »
September 25, 2003
Africa: Plain Speaking from Ghana's Education Minister on Future of Africas Academia
How to improve tertiary education in sub-Saharan Africa, and find ways to make it work, is the theme of a three-day conference being held in Accra, Ghana. Questions raised in the… Read more »
September 22, 2003
Africa: Warnings, Anger, Passion and Determination at Major African Aids Conference
Kenyan President, Mwai Kibaki, opened the 13th International Conference on Aids and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (known as Icasa) Sunday in the capital, Nairobi,… Read more »
September 21, 2003
Africa: Ex-President Rawlings Challenges "Behavior" of African Men
Speaking at a Washington, D.C., dinner Friday night, former Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings said a significant part of the fight against HIV/Aids in Africa required targeting… Read more »
September 16, 2003
Africa: Cancun - Destined for Failure
When Kenyan and Ugandan delegations walked out of the World Trade Organisation's meeting on Sunday afternoon and Kenya's delegate George Odour Ong'wen declared to reporters that… Read more »
September 09, 2003
Africa: Protecting Communities to Protect the Planet
Delegates from over 170 countries are meeting this week in Durban, South Africa, to discuss the guiding principles of conservation and Protected Area management at the fifth World… Read more »
September 08, 2003
Africa: Africans Head for WTO With Low Expectations
African trade ministers and officials are approaching the fifth World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial talks that begin in Cancun, Mexico, on Wednesday, with low expectations. Read more »
August 08, 2003
Africa: UN HIV/Aids Envoy Presses Case for Treatment as a Human Right
On Friday the South African government instructed the ministry of health to develop a plan for the distribution of HIV/Aids drugs by the end of September. Although Aids activists… Read more »
July 26, 2003
Africa: 'I Hope To Be Of Service' Says Mazimhaka
Patrick Mazimhaka, outgoing presidential advisor to the Rwandan leader, Paul Kagame, was elected vice-chairman of the African Union Commission at the recent AU summit in Maputo,… Read more »
July 22, 2003
Africa: Top African Diplomat Essy Bows Out, Makes Way for Konare
Alpha Oumar Konare, 57, the former president of Mali, was elected the new chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission at the recent AU summit in Maputo, Mozambique. The… Read more »
July 16, 2003
Africa: African Leaders Condemn Takeover in Sao Tome and Principe and Support Menezes
African presidents across the continent have spoken out strongly today in support of President Fradique de Menezes, following an army takeover in his island nation of Sao Tome and… Read more »