<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - AIDS Commentary</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</link><description>AIDS Commentary</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[A Pope for Better or Perhaps Worse]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6178-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6178-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Being a non-Catholic nowadays is a bit like being a non-American most of the time. Important, maybe even historic, decisions are being made and you are totally locked out. America chooses a president who gets a bee in his bonnet about Iraq, and a hunk of the world goes to war. The cardinals of the church choose a pope and maybe an even bigger hunk of the world is affected  --  everything from population control to AIDS. The import is clear: We  --  that's all of us  --  have a new pope.]]></description><author> Richard Cohen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Pope]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3011-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3011-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  "AN ADULT FAITH does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelty." With those words, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, concluded the last sermon he gave before the cardinals of the Catholic Church held their conclave in Rome. It is not for us to comment upon matters of Catholic doctrine, or indeed upon the internal deliberations of any religious institution. But as the international reaction to the death of Pope John Paul II demonstrated  --  and as the multinational, flag-waving crowd in St. Peter's Square yesterday proved once again  --  the leader of the Catholic Church has extraordinary political and moral influence around the world. There are areas  in which the new pope could have a tremendous impact, on both Catholics and non-Catholics, in this country and everywhere else, for better or for worse.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growth Across Africa]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58293-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58293-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[<em> It's not all bleak in sub-Saharan Africa, where the economies of more than 20 countries have registered growth for each of the past five years. Other quality-of-life indicators also show some improvement, but evidence of the ravages of HIV/AIDS is apparent in some stark drops in life expectancy over the last decade. Here's a look at Africa's better performers, including each country's United Nations Human Development Index ranking, which combines life expectancy, literacy and GDP to rank 177 nations around the globe. Fgures are for 2004, except as noted.</em>]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Africa You Never See]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58294-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58294-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  In the waiting area of a large office complex in Accra, Ghana, it's standing room only as citizens with bundles of cash line up to buy shares of a mutual fund that has yielded an average 60 percent annually for the past seven years. They're entrusting their hard-earned cash to a local company called Databank, which invests in stock markets in Ghana, Nigeria, Botswana and Kenya that consistently rank among the world's top growth markets.]]></description><author> Carol Pineau</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Money Was Valued More Than My Expertise]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58295-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58295-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Having recently returned from one of the world's 10 poorest countries to one of the richest, I find it easy to let myself fall back into imagining that a simple transfer of wealth could alleviate the developing world's dual problems of poverty and disease.]]></description><author> Charlotte Gott</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not So United After All]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38703-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38703-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The outpouring of ecumenism around the death of Pope John Paul II may last for a while; where it will be a month from now is another matter. Despite the comity among religious people that was witnessed this week in Rome, the fissures separating the faithful may be greater than the theological agreements uniting them.]]></description><author> Colbert I. King</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Future of the Past]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28417-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28417-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  At first glance, it looked to be a triumph of the human spirit. There, at a joint news conference last week in Jerusalem, stood the patriarchs of the rival faiths of the Middle East  --  Israel's chief rabbis, the deputy mufti of Jerusalem, leaders of the Catholic and Armenian churches  --  Jews, Muslims and Christians, together at last.]]></description><author> Harold Meyerson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Tainted Easter Message]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2215-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2215-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   This is an Easter season story with all the makings of an uplifting message, except for one thing: At the end, there is no victory. To be sure, this account contains elements of despair, pain, sacrifice, hope and an unselfish devotion to the powerless. There's also international intrigue linking a central Pennsylvania community to a distant village in East Africa. But coming at the time of Christianity's central event, this is, in essence, a tragic tale of ignorance, bigotry and love unreturned.]]></description><author> Colbert I. King</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Modest Proposal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25562-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25562-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[THE END OF POVERTY<br>  Economic Possibilities for Our Time]]></description><author>Reviewed  William Easterly</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faulty Conclusion On AIDS in Uganda]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15549-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15549-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Feb. 24 news story "Uganda's AIDS Decline Attributed to Deaths" reported results from AIDS research conducted  only in the Rakai district of Uganda,  where less than 2 percent of that country's population lives. This district is not representative of the country, and  it is incorrect to draw any conclusion about the decline of AIDS throughout Uganda from research conducted only in that  small region.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speeding an AIDS Vaccine]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19406-2005Jan18.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19406-2005Jan18.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Picture two scientists in adjacent labs. They're working on the same problem -- how to stop a disease that kills 3 million people every year -- but although they compare notes and share findings, they need a better plan to coordinate their research. They labor for years at the same task, but as individuals rather than as a community of scientists. Although they make important progress, after two decades just one vaccine makes it into large-scale clinical trials -- and it doesn't work.]]></description><author> Richard G. Lugar and Patty Stonesifer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Footsteps of History]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19443-2005Jan18.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19443-2005Jan18.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  When  Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as secretary of state, she will be following in the footsteps of Mary McLeod Bethune, the founder of the National Council of Negro Women. Mrs. Bethune was the first black woman to be called upon for policy help by the White House, when Republican President Calvin Coolidge asked her to take part in a conference on child care in 1928. She went on to work with Republican and Democratic presidents while always fighting to advance the interests of black women and children.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Missed Points and the AIDS Pandemic]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45562-2004Dec7.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45562-2004Dec7.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Dec. 1 editorial "A Female Pandemic?" sent the wrong message. From the headline that  seemed to question data showing that HIV-AIDS has become a female pandemic to the conclusion that  highlighting the  predicament of the disease's most victimized group is misplaced, The Post seems curiously insensitive to what some have termed the greatest human rights challenge of our time: the plight of Third World women.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Africa Subsidizes U.S. Health Care]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18883-2004Nov28.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18883-2004Nov28.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  This Wednesday is World  AIDS Day: It will be marked by concerts and candlelit vigils from Armenia to Zambia. The speeches and statistics will have a horrific familiarity: Two decades after the first diagnoses, AIDS shows no signs of letting up. And yet the debate about AIDS is changing subtly. In Africa, the epicenter of the crisis, the shortage of cash and affordable medicines is no longer the prime issue. Attention is turning to the shortage of health workers, and hence to a dark aspect of globalization.]]></description><author>Sebastian Mallaby</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Campaign Spending Tricks]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52937-2004Nov15.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52937-2004Nov15.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The Nov. 3 editorial "Campaign Reform" laid out the ways in which campaign financing has improved in the past four years and compared the $4 billion spent on campaigns to the $3 billion spent on Halloween.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Ugandan Tragedy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38238-2004Nov9.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38238-2004Nov9.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   As the world finally turns its gaze toward the horrors in Darfur, an equally terrible situation in northern Uganda continues to go unnoticed. The actions of a fanatical rebel movement, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), have displaced more than 1.6 million people in northern and eastern Uganda, a number even higher than in Darfur. The conflict, which has destroyed lives, communities and rich cultural traditions, cannot be allowed to continue. The international community must help bring it to an end and stanch the hemorrhage of human suffering.]]></description><author> Jan Egeland</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Postwar Era, Angolans Now  Face Threat Of HIV-AIDS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32039-2004Sep18.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32039-2004Sep18.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The estimated HIV infection rate for Angola remains under 10 percent for non-elderly adults.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foreign Aid in Peril]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24767-2004Sep15.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24767-2004Sep15.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   MORE THAN one would have predicted four years ago, the Bush administration has promoted help for developing countries. Having suggested during his campaign that Africa was not a priority, President Bush greatly expanded programs to help poor countries cope with AIDS, and he promised a 50 percent jump in other foreign assistance. However, that second achievement is in danger of being undermined. In a Senate markup yesterday, only $1.12 billion was allocated to Mr. Bush's new aid initiative, less than half of what he requested.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The News Could Be Verse]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38013-2004Aug3.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38013-2004Aug3.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[<em>Everyone knows </em><br><em>The news, in prose, </em><br><em>Is really depressing, factually. </em>]]></description><author> Gene Weingarten</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[AIDS Activists Misfiring]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60578-2004Jul18.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60578-2004Jul18.html?nav=rss_world/issues/aidsinafrica/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:06:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  In the past few years, global AIDS activists have worked miracles. They have shaken rich governments awake, causing international AIDS funding to rise 15-fold. They have beaten back big pharma's jihad against cheap, non-brand medicines, creating an opportunity to treat millions of people in poor countries. But the activists, or at least some of them, are in danger of tipping from heroism into shrill anti-Americanism. The sound bites from last week's AIDS conference in Bangkok were straight out of a Michael Moore movie.]]></description><author>Sebastian Mallaby</author></item></channel></rss>