Posted on May 11th, 2005 by joshbusby
Ambrosio, Thomas. “The Geopolitics of Demographic Decay: HIV/AIDS and Russia’s Great Power Status” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2005-03-05 “Ambrosio Paper : The Geopolitics of Demographic Decay“
Blanchard, Jean-Marc. “Corporate Hegemony in Remission: The Pharmaceutical Industry and the HIV/AIDS crisis” [...]
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Posted on May 11th, 2005 by Nate
I had no idea that the practice of the relatives of the deceased sleeping with widows was that widespread. Hard to imagine that the practice could be condoned. I don’t think it is cultural imperialism for outsiders to suggest this is a bad idea. The best turn is that local actors are now starting to [...]
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Posted on May 4th, 2005 by Nate
Brazil yesterday became the first country to take a public stand against the Bush administration’s massive Aids programme which is seen by many as seeking increasingly to press its anti-abortion, pro-abstinence sexual agenda on poorer countries. Campaigners applauded Brazil’s rejection of $40m for its Aids programmes because it refuses to agree to a declaration condemning [...]
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Posted on May 3rd, 2005 by Nate
Toronto’s Globe and Mail reports that the Ugandan “miracle” may not be so miraculous after all:
But several recent studies suggest it wasn’t ABC that turned Uganda
around at all. Instead, they indicate that the infection rate declined
sharply for the simple reason that hundreds of thousands of
HIV-infected people died.
“The Ugandan miracle is that a lot of people [...]
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