AIDS Ravages Labour Force
Study of 50 countries indicates high cost of inaction to private sector; Africa worst hit an estimated 36.5 million people engaged in some form of economic activity worldwide are HIV-positive, resulting in an annual loss of $25 billion in productivity – twice the yearly gross domestic product of Kenya.
Africa – Think Beyond Primary Education
Education is a universal right, a prerequisite for democracy, a path out of material and spiritual poverty.
New Strategy for Tracking the Epidemic
In June 2004 the World Health Organisation and UNAIDS released a policy statement that cautiously endorsed a new approach to HIV testing in hopes of increasing the number of people worldwide who know their status.
A Shot Put to Governance
Lessons in achievement from the Olympic arenas of Athens. The world’s greatest sporting spectacle, the Olympic games, is a testament to the power of money, planning and sports science.
SADC Nails Flag to Polls
New guidelines set higher standards for the way campaigns and elections are conducted.
Challenging Norms, Changing Practices
THREE days after the August 30 UN deadline lapsed for Khartoum to intervene in the humanitarian crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region, the secretary-general’s special envoy, Jan Pronk, told the Security Council that the government had failed to disarm the Janjaweed rebels or halt their campaign of violence against civilians. Now what?
In Pursuit of the Record
Freedom of information laws are proliferating in Africa, but access remains poor
A Pending Crisis of Overlap
The many layers of regional organisation complicate trade agreements on and off the continent
Regionalisation and Africa’s Search for Economic Renewal
The continent’s architects pursue development through integration, but lessons from Europe and Asia suggest the approach is mistaken
Little Progress Toward Meeting Malaria Targets
On a continent where HIV/AIDS has become the primary killer and most controversial health-care issue, efforts to curb another deadly disease – malaria – have faltered.