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Apr 4, 2012 Africa: BRICS Stepping Up on Global Health
When the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa)
countries met for their fourth summit in New Delhi last
month, the event attracted little attention from the Western
press. The New York Times headlined its report "BRICS
Leaders Fail to Create Rival to World Bank," noting that the
summit only created a working group to consider such a new
development bank next year. But the common tendency to
dismiss the group because of its internal diversity risks
ignoring the steady emergence of greater influence for its
members beyond their obvious growing economic weight.
Jul 5, 2011 South Africa: Taking Leadership in AIDS Fight
South Africa's 5th AIDS conference, held from June 7-10 this
year, marked a remarkable turnaround in the country's
efforts against the AIDS pandemic. Achievements noted
included bringing 400,000 additional AIDS patients into
antiretroviral treatment within the last year, raising the
total to 1.4 million; cutting the cost of antiretroviral
therapy in half over six months; and extending treatment
using trained nurses to more than 1,600 health facilities.
Most important of all has been a strong spirit of
collaboration among the government, medical specialists, and
activists.
Oct 7, 2010 South Africa: Post-Apartheid Poverty & Inequality
The question of how much change in social and economic conditions
has followed the fall of apartheid in South Africa has provoked
not also much debate but also significant research. A useful new
report by Murray Leibbrant and others at the Southern Africa Labour
and Development Research Unit in Cape Town provides both a summary
of previous research and new analysis of household-level data
between 1993 and 2008.
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