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Article: The right direction; AIDS, Africa and the G8.(Aid for AIDS)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 7, 2003
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Nice promises; now do something
LEST the leaders of the rich world forget their obligations, a delegation of African presidents led by Thabo Mbeki of South Africa turned up
at the recent G8 meeting in Evian to remind them. The delegation had a long shopping list: support for a proposed African peacekeeping force to intervene in civil wars; tariff cuts to encourage trade; a system of "peer review" whereby countries will try to attract more aid and investment by volunteering for outside scrutiny of their economies and politics. But the big prize was help fighting AIDS, a disease which kills several thousand Africans every day. And help, it seems, may be ...