AIDS in Africa

Brief Introduction

AIDS and the 2008 Elections

Ethical Questions

Event Ideas

Interviews - careers in science from the field:

• Eugene Russell, an applied physicist from Nimba, Liberia.
• Benjamin Silverman, medical student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Articles:

• AIDS Fund Falls Short of Goal and U.S. is Given Some Blame (72K PDF)
• AIDS Is Not a Death Sentence (86K PDF)
• Bush Offers Plan to Help Mothers Avoid Passing H.I.V. to Babies (86K PDF)
• Clinton Urges Global Planning to Halt H.I.V. (92K PDF)
• Congress Awakens to AIDS With a Convert's Zeal (116K PDF)
• Former Presidents Urge Leadership on AIDS (91K PDF)
• Health Aid for Poor Countries (60K PDF)
• Helms Reverses Opposition to Help on AIDS (89K PDF)
• In Quietly Courting Africa, White House Likes Dowry (119K PDF)
• The Aid Debate: Helping Hand or Hardly Helping? (85K PDF)
• The Global Fund Confronts AIDS (59K PDF)
• The Truth About George Bush's Anti-AIDS push (79K PDF)
• US HIV Groups Reach Beyond Borders (99K PDF)

Suggested Reading:

• AIDS in Africa A Global Battle's Missing Weapon by Richard Holbrooke and Richard Furman
• South African Fight Against HIV/AIDS Gets Major Boost by Candace Freeman
• Sex, not Unsafe Injections, Fuels AIDS in Africa
• WHO unveils plans to treat 3 million by 2005 by Keith Alcor

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