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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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AfricaFocus Bulletin
December 5, 2013 Africa/Global: Pope Francis on Economic Justice
"As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by
rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial
speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality,
no solution will be found for the world's problems or, for that
matter, to any problems. Inequality is the root of social ills." -
Pope Francis, November 24, 2013
November 27, 2013 Central African Republic: Whose Responsibility to Protect?
In the Central African Republic, the scale of the humanitarian
crisis is undeniable; the threat of even greater escalation of
violence and chaos is real. And there is a consensus that greater
international action is essential. But the questions of who does
what when, and who pays, remain unanswered. France is sending
additional troops to reinforce the African peacekeeping force now
in place, but the processes for funding and coordinating African
Union and United Nations multilateral actions are still in slowmotion
mode.
November 18, 2013 Africa: Time to Pay for Climate "Loss and Damage"
"The U.S. delegation negotiating at the U.N. international climate
change conference in Poland is pushing an agenda of minimising the
role of "Loss and Damage" in the UNFCCC framework, prioritising
private finance in the Green Climate Fund, and delaying the
deadline for post-2020 emission reduction commitments, according to
a State Department negotiating strategy which IPS has seen." Inter
Press Service
November 12, 2013 Africa: Digital Divide to Power Divide
"The success of many African countries in addressing the digital
divide masks a large, yawning hole into which many are about to
fall. The more successful they are at addressing the digital
divide, the more it turns into the power divide. The shortage of
electricity access and poor quality of supply will begin to
undermine what has been achieved. ... The kind of political focus
that has been bought to bear on the digital divide just does not
exist to address this problem." - Russell Southwood, Balancing Act
Africa
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November 9, 2013
Africa: Monopolizing Maize
October 27, 2013
Nigeria: Cycle of Violence in Northeast
October 18, 2013
Africa: Whose "Africa Rising"?
October 11, 2013
Africa: AU and the International Criminal Court
Oct 6, 2013
Africa: Migrant Deaths at Sea
August 20, 2013
Africa: Progress against AIDS
August 5, 2013
South Africa: The Marikana Syndrome
July 31, 2013
Africa: Youth, "Waithood," and Protest
July 23, 2013
Zimbabwe: Voters' Roll Follies
July 23, 2013
Zimbabwe: Slim Chances for Credible Elections
July 15, 2013
Africa/Global: Violence against Women is Epidemic
July 8, 2013
Egypt: Neither Coup nor Revolution
June 19, 2013
Africa: Claim No Easy Victories
June 12, 2013
Mozambique: Agriculture Project Challenged
June 12, 2013
Africa: Underdeveloping African Agriculture
June 5, 2013
Nigeria: Counterproductive Counterterrorism
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