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...should refer to consistent usage, not to all condom usage. This is an important point—condom use in fact has increased substantially in many places, but unfortunately this has not translated into consistent usage, which remains quite low, or into lower HIV infection rates in Africa??s population-wide epidemics. EDWARD C. GREEN Cambridge, Mass. April...
...Green has explained, the real impetus behind Africa??s pandemic, as opposed to other localized AIDS outbreaks, is the prevalence of multiple and concurrent sexual partners. HIV spreads at a markedly more efficient rate within the first few weeks of infection. As a result, if those infected reduced the frequency with which they changed partners or are linked to existing partners—let alone practiced abstinence—the disease could not continue to proliferate at its current prodigious levels...
...Gaddafi’s plan is especially important because of Africa??s complicated relationship with the United Nations and Europe. Many of the nations in positions to provide support and military assistance for the AU are the very nations that colonized Africa decades or centuries ago. Gaddafi’s call for a united Africa represents an African-born, African-comprised initiative...
...Africa??s other leaders may not fancy Gaddafi a higher African ruler to whom they should relinquish autonomy. His vision, however, could not be timelier. Africa has simply too many crises and areas of attention for the UN and current AU apparatus to cover. For those who envision an African community capable of handling its own problems and promoting peace, Gaddafi may prove the champion of such a dream...
...Walker said. “I told him about this pie in the sky idea to get a bunch of flexible funding and get really smart people together to think outside the box.” Walker approached Ragon—who had business of his own in South Africa??a year and a half ago regarding funding for AIDS research, and two weeks later, the two were on a plane together to see Walker’s clinic. Walker said Ragon had a transforming experience there and saw that the best means of combatting the problem...