After decades of famine, grinding poverty, colossal debts and enormous slum-growth, Africa is indisputably the worst casualty of economic globalization. As the region takes the further brunt of man-made climate change, the rich nations hold a moral responsibility to reorder economic priorities and coordinate a massive transfer of resources to the impoverished continent.
As the United States prepares to implement President Bush's five-year, $15 billion Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, special interests on both sides of the social-political spectrum are attempting to export some of the worst of America's prejudices to Africa. At issue is funding for prevention and, in particular, the widely debated approach to AIDS prevention known as ABC: Abstain, Be faithful or (for those especially at risk) use a Condom.
Ted Green One day in February 2000, I was walking down the main street in Mbabane, Swaziland, with my best friend in all of Africa, who I will call Sam. We encountered a friend of Sam’s, a fellow journalist named Knowledge (his real name). Knowledge put his hands up to Sam’s neck and asked him, “How are your glands? Is that stuff helping?”
African Men, Circumcision, HIV/AIDS and Anthropology, Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 11/18/00, San Francisco, 2000
A group of African leaders who were guests at the summit of the G8 major powers have criticised their hosts' performance on debt relief for poor countries, most of them in Africa.
