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Featured Issue Focus:
HIV/AIDS and Health as a Human Right
Unfinished Business: In the last 15 years, AIDS activists and medical professionals,
in Africa and around the world, have won the recognition that
the fight against AIDS, which disproportionately affects the African
continent, is a shared global responsibility.
Millions of lives have been saved. But the fight against AIDS
and the wider commitment to health as a universal human right is now
threatened by "AIDS fatigue" and austerity politics. It's
time to build on success and reject the callous assumption
that millions more should simply be left to die, whether
from AIDS or as a result of other unmet health needs.
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Recent AfricaFocus Bulletins on HIV/AIDS & Health
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Background and Updates on Kony2012 video
See the AfricaFocus Bulletins for March 14, one with
general background and the other on
military realities.
Updated links to more recent sources appear at the
beginning of each Bulletin.
AfricaFocus Bulletin
May 9, 2012 Africa: Decisive Year for Global Fund
"We write as global health groups, communities affected by
HIV, TB, and Malaria, and researchers from around the world
to urge you not to undermine the founding principle of a
demand-driven Global Fund. We are united against proposals
to set 'envelopes' or 'allocations' for each country, which
would result in limited ambition, scaled back or skewed
plans, and ultimately a failure to get ahead of death and
new infections. Limiting ambition now will only cost more in
the future - in lives and money." - civil society letter to
Global Fund Board
May 3, 2012 Africa: Pushing Land Deals
"Whereas WBG's [the World Bank Group's] mandate is to
'reduce poverty and improve living standards through
sustainable development and investment in people,' its work
largely strays from this mission in that, by promoting
investor access to land, it actually tends to threaten
rather than improve food security and local livelihoods in
developing countries." - The Oakland Institute
May 3, 2012 Sierra Leone: Resisting Land Deals
"While the government of Sierra Leone says it is now
supporting farmers with its smallholder commercialization
program, at the same time it is promoting massive foreign
direct investment in farmland in the country. It claims this
will not harm smallholders or food security. ...
Participants at the conference [of affected land owners and
land users] strongly disagreed." - The Oakland Institute
Apr 25, 2012 Congo (Kinshasa): Call for Real Security Reform
An impressive array of Congolese and international civil
society organizations have issued a new call for real
security sector reform in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo, to be impelled by more coordinated pressures from
African and other international partners as well as
Congolese civil society.
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AfricaFocus Archive:
by date | by place | by topic
Apr 19, 2012
Malawi: Hope in a New Start
Apr 11, 2012
Africa: "New Structural Economics"
Apr 11, 2012
Africa: Issues for the World Bank
Apr 4, 2012
Africa: BRICS Stepping Up on Global Health
Mar 29, 2012
Congo (Kinshasa): Democracy Still Deferred
Mar 21, 2012
Europe/Africa: Underdeveloping Africa (Again)
Mar 14, 2012
Africa: KONY 2012, Military Realities
Mar 14, 2012
Africa: KONY 2012, Selected Reflections
Mar 7, 2012
Europe/Africa: Court Rules for Boat Migrants' Rights
Mar 1, 2012
Africa: Funding Slowdowns Hit AIDS Programs
Feb 23, 2012
Senegal: Democracy or Gerontocracy?
Feb 15, 2012
Africa: Social Media Updates
Feb 10, 2012
Africa: Brain Drains in Context
Feb 10, 2012
Africa: Counting the Costs of Brain Drain
Feb 3, 2012
Africa: Paying for Health
Jan 30, 2012
Sudan/South Sudan: A Lose-Lose Scenario
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