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Africa

What Money Can Buy

October 24th, 2005 | Posted in The New Yorker, Articles | No Comments
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Download the PDF Millions of Africans die needlessly of disease each year. Can Bill Gates change that?
by Michael Specter

Each May, representatives from the hundred and ninety-two member nations of the World Health Organization travel to Geneva to set policies for the coming year. The assembly lasts a week, and the delegates often find themselves devoting as much of that time to politics as they do to matters of life or death. Read more »

The Vaccine

February 3rd, 2003 | Posted in The New Yorker, Articles | No Comments
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Download the PDF Has the race to save Africa from aids put Western science at odds with Western ethics?
by Michael Specter

At forty-one, Hala has five children and eight grandchildren. Her first husband left when their second child was born. Her second husband died of aids nearly twenty years ago, in the earliest days of the epidemic. Hala often tells people that she sells charcoal, doughnuts, or cooking oil on the streets, but that isn't true. She is a prostitute, who has spent nearly half her life working out of a wattle hut in Pumwani, one of Nairobi's most crowded–and violent–slums. On an average day, she might see ten men, most of them truck drivers from Tanzania. Read more »

Urgency Tempers Ethics Concerns in Uganda Trial of AIDS Vaccine

October 1st, 1998 | Posted in New York Times, Articles | No Comments
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KAMPALA, Uganda–Raphael Nawiro got up extra early one steamy morning this summer. He walked a mile from his home, then took two long bus rides until he reached Uganda's principal medical complex, the aging, overburdened Old Mulago Hospital. Read more »

Breast-feeding and H.I.V.

August 19th, 1998 | Posted in New York Times, Articles | No Comments
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Weighing Health Risks
by Michael Specter

KAKULU, Uganda — This village is really just a muddy patch of ground in the tall trees near where the Nile flows out of Lake Victoria. The men work on coffee plantations. The women bear children, fetch water from the well about a mile away and cultivate cassava, potatoes and bananas. Read more »