africa issues

This is something I've been following on and off for a while ever since Mark Crislip covered it in two episodes of QuackCast (Episodes 63 & 86, linked below), what is happening is that peddlers of Quack medicine are going to Africa and performing 'Clinical Trials' of whatever woo they happen to...

From the little I know, they sound like scum and I'm not opposed to this. http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/14/world/africa/africa-obama-troops/ However... I wonder what interests, if any, are at stake. And will this help break their spell really, or is it likely to aggravate things, or make the LRA...

CNN.com has a report by Bill Frist that makes this claim: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/15/frist.bush/index.html Mostly through funding AIDS treatments in Africa, according to the article. But, I wonder how many he killed through pushing "Abstinence Only". Discuss.

Just about the most vitriolic piece of cruel, immoral invective idiocy I've seen in a good long while. http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/africa-is-giving-nothing-to-anyone--apart-from-aids-1430428.html The guy lost all respect for what little argument he may have had at...

I am starting this thread so that evidence of the existence of these crimes can be presented and concrete solutions to the problem can be discussed. Graphic or explicit descriptions need not be presented, we all know what it entails.

This why I hate religion: http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1258762,00.html?f=rss

Thabo Mebki is saying that Africa has all the aid money it can handle: http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=15199 The problem being that when given all this gravy, the givers might expect the givee to do something usefull with it. Which kind of leaves me speachless..............

New research is claiming that the spread of AIDS in Africa may have been primarily caused by dirty needles. BBC reports that the UN disagrees. The researchers claim that evidence that dirty needles are the primary cause was (is) covered up by people in the west with a political agenda that...