Word: africaã
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...dollars to address terrorism and the aftermath of the attacks, let us not be deaf to the oft-ignored pleas of two generations of Africans—and increasing numbers of youth in Asia and worldwide—who face wholesale destruction from AIDS. Fully half of South Africa??€™s teenagers are projected to die of AIDS before reaching the age of 35. Congress is now considering a $1 billion pledge for global AIDS. We must ensure that it passes...
...conference, the first of 10 expected to be held within the next year, featured Dr. Glaudine Mtshali, South Africa??€™s health representative, and Eric Sawyer, co-founder of the AIDS activist group ACT-UP New York, as guest speakers. SGAC addressed the scale of the AIDS crisis and its connection to gender, drugs and debt in developing nations. It also provided information on how to build coalitions, deal with media and motivate people to write letters to Congress...
Tiruneh said she hopes that the series will encourage people to realize that Africa??€™s obstacles extend beyond the basic problems of poverty and AIDS...
...great danger in mounting a rash strike against the wrong target purely to satisfy a desire for quick retribution. Retribution is, no doubt, in order. But lobbing a few ineffectual cruise missiles at suspected terrorist compounds—as we did following the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa??€”will do little to promote our long-term security. If anything, such a policy could incite further violence against the United States...
...South Africa??€™s Hestrie Cloete won her nation’s only gold medal of the championships after clearing heights of 1.85, 1.90, 1.94 and 1.97 meters on consecutive jumps and then two meters on her second try. Ukraine’s 34-year-old champion Inha Babakova matched Cloete’s performance at two meters but was left with silver because she needed two attempts at 1.97 meters. Sweden’s Kajsa Bergqvist, the 2001 IAAF indoor champion whose peak performance was 1.97 meters on the day, earned the bronze...