Botswana People And Picture
Department of State Washington File: AIDS Epidemic Likely to Reverse Sustainable Development
Barcelona -- AIDS could kill 68 million people by the year 2020, according to the most recent global analysis conducted by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). The numbers are so staggering that the reality of people affected and families shattered can easily be lost in the bewildering statistics. In reports presented this week at the XIV International AIDS conference, however, experts are attempting to outline a picture of nations where populations are devastated by the epidemic. ... [Read More]
Dr. Condoleezza Rice Discusses the President's Trip to Africa
The President and Mrs. Bush will depart the White House on Monday, July 7th, for an overnight flight that lands them in Dakar, Senegal, on Tuesday, July 8th. In Senegal, the President will meet with President Wade, with whom he's met several times before. President Wade is a solid and progressive leader of West Africa's longest standing democracy and someone that the President admires as a statesman in the region. The President and Mrs. Bush will visit Goree Island, where the President will deliver remarks and tour a slave house with Mrs. Bush and President and Madam Wade. The President and Mrs. Bush will then depart for Pretoria, South Africa. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Text: UNAIDS Reports 5 Million New HIV Cases in 2003
An estimated 1.6 million people are living with HIV in these countries. Unlike the situation in other regions, the great majority of people living with HIV in high-income countries who need antiretroviral therapy have access to it, so they are staying healthy and surviving longer than infected people elsewhere. The report finds that infections are on the rise in the United States and Western Europe. In the US, an estimated 950 000 people are living with HIV --- up from 900 000 in 2001. Half of all new infections in recent years have been among African Americans. In Western Europe, 580 000 people are living with HIV compared to 540 000 in 2001. ... [Read More]
The United States Diplomatic Mission to Nigeria: POTUS Visit to Nigeria - President "Moved" by His Africa Trip, Powell Says
SECRETARY POWELL: The HIV/AIDS crisis is bad -- it is a pandemic. It is a weapon of mass destruction. Millions and millions of people are at risk and it is not just a human issue, it is a political issue. It is the destruction of societies, the destruction of countries, the destruction of hope for a better life. It is something that we must all come together to fight. I think the United States has been in the forefront of leading this effort and we will continue to do so. The President has a passion for this issue and he has been demonstrating that passion throughout this week in his visits to Senegal and South Africa and to Botswana, and will do it tomorrow when we go to Uganda, then on to Nigeria. ... [Read More]
Interview on CNN’s Larry King Live
SECRETARY POWELL: The HIV/AIDS crisis is bad -- it is a pandemic. It is a weapon of mass destruction. Millions and millions of people are at risk and it is not just a human issue, it is a political issue. It is the destruction of societies, the destruction of countries, the destruction of hope for a better life. It is something that we must all come together to fight. I think the United States has been in the forefront of leading this effort and we will continue to do so. The President has a passion for this issue and he has been demonstrating that passion throughout this week in his visit to Senegal and South Africa and to Botswana and will do it tomorrow when we go to Uganda, then on to Nigeria. ... [Read More]
Daily Press Briefing for February 26 -- Transcript
MR. BOUCHER: I'll say the same thing as last week. I'll say it again and again. We believe that all parties should respect democratic institutions. Those who may want change, political change, need to pursue it democratically and constitutionally. That's part of the democracies charter that we have signed and joined in with others in the hemisphere. And, frankly, that applies to whatever direction the attacks on democracy might be coming from. And we have, I think, made no secret about our concerns about some of the things that President Chavez has done, against the opposition, against the free press, which we also consider to be detrimental to democracy. ... [Read More]
U.S.-Africa Relations at the Beginning of the 21st Century
We believe the private sector has a major role to play in this effort. It is investment and trade, not aid, that will in the end create real and sustainable economic growth in Africa. By breaking down barriers to U.S. markets, the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) has had a major impact in Africa. AGOA has facilitated new investment, created jobs, and helped form linkages that will create new markets and investment opportunities over the long term. Since its inception just three years ago, AGOA-related opportunities have generated 190,000 jobs and over $340 million in new investment. AGOA has created real results for real people. In Tanzania, a small handicraft company that once employed 25 people and exported just $20,000 a year in arts and crafts to the U.S. has seen its employment rolls increase 300% as exports multiplied ten-fold. Not all AGOA-related successes involve export direct to the United States. AGOA is also stimulating intra-regional trade. For example, Namibian p ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Text: UNAIDS Head Speaks on AIDS and Global Security
Fourth, in urban areas in particular where there is an expectation that health services will be accessible, a great demand is generated for HIV treatment. Middle and working class pressures on private and public health services become considerable, and if these demands cannot be met, adds to political instability and tension -- just witness the destabilising political effects that claims of 'miracle cures' for AIDS have had, in countries as diverse as Nigeria and many other African countries, India and Thailand. ... [Read More]
THE IDEA OF AN AFRICAN RENAISSANCE: MYTH OR REALITY
To the economic, political, moral and humanitarian arguments for increasedengagement with Africa, I must add one other that is unique to the history, tradition andsocial condition of much of this audience. It is probably best described as existential. Whether you belong to the ranks of those African Americans who feel a special kinship withAfrica, as I do, or those who dismiss the Afro-connection as romantic nonsense as someothers do, there is no denying that 12 percent of the American population claim Africa astheir ancestral home. It is also the home for hundreds of millions of black men and womenwho know first hand why W.E.B. Dubois described the problem of the twentieth century asthe problem of the color line. Many of them suffered with us as we endured the pain of billy clubs, water hoses and the other brutalities of Mississippi and Alabama just as wesuffered with them when their children were killed in Soweto and their brothers and sistersshot down in Sharpesville. It is ... [Read More]
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