Aug 14, 2007  Nigeria: AIDS Advice Available http://www.africafocus.org/docs07/hiv0708b.php
    "We are indeed succeeding in our sensitization and public enlightenment efforts. ... While we chose to whine and lampoon acts such as the incident at Covenant University [which decided in June not to allow HIV-positive students to graduate], the insurance executive who was fired for testing positive to HIV and many more, we cannot ignore ... condemnation such acts have attracted especially through newspaper editorials, columnists, opinion polls and wait for this - even discussions at amala joints, fast foods outlets, drinking bars, pepper soup joints, discussions at taxi parks." - Journalists against AIDS Nigeria

Aug 14, 2007  South Africa: AIDS Action Relapse http://www.africafocus.org/docs07/hiv0708a.php
    "Unlike other African countries, South Africa has the financial resources and the medical talent to successfully take on its H.I.V./AIDS epidemic. What it lacks is a president who cares enough about his people's suffering to provide serious leadership. .. Unless he finally starts listening to sensible advice on AIDS, he will leave a tragic legacy of junk science and unnecessary death." - New York Times, August 14, 2007

Jun 18, 2007  Africa: Two Cheers for G8? http://www.africafocus.org/docs07/lew0706.php
    "In 2005, at its meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland, the [G-8] pledged to provide 'as close as possible to universal access to treatment' for all people suffering from AIDS by 2010. That should mean at least 10 million people in treatment by then ... Yet at the recent meeting, the G-8 said it was aiming to treat only some five million patients in Africa by an unspecified date. That sounds like consigning millions of untreated people to death and disability." - New York Times

May 23, 2007  Africa: Medicines without Doctors http://www.africafocus.org/docs07/gf0705.php
    "The World Health Organization estimates that to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), health systems need at least 2.5 health workers per 1,000 people. In Mozambique, ... per 1,000 people there are 0.36 full-time equivalents of health workers (2004 figures).Mozambique's health workforce would have to be multiplied by seven to achieve the MDGs."

May 23, 2007  Africa: Eyes on the G8 http://www.africafocus.org/docs07/g8_0705.php
    The G8 (Group of 8) summit of the world's richest nations is scheduled to meet June 6-8 on the Baltic coast of Germany, and activists are demanding action not rhetoric on commitments to Africa. ActionAid, for example, is calling for at least 8,000 people, the number dying of AIDS every day, to upload images of their eyes to signal the leaders that the world is watching. Visit http://eyes.actionaid.org.uk/ to add your eyes and your message.

Apr 12, 2007  Africa: "We will hold you to your promises" http://www.africafocus.org/docs07/heal0704.php
    As African Union ministers of health gathered in South Africa this week to discuss strategies, civil society health activists demanded that African governments live up to previous commitments to expand health access. "We will not go back," the activist coalition statement concluded, "We will be watching you."

Mar 4, 2007  Africa: Global Fund Advances http://www.africafocus.org/docs07/gf0703.php
    The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria has a new executive director. And the Global Fund Observer reports that the Fund is in better financial shape to cover the anticipated cost of Round 7 grants than it was at this stage with any of the three previous rounds. But the fund still needs to triple its funding levels to meet the estimated needs for the period 2008-2010.

Jan 25, 2007  Africa: Health Promises, Time to Deliver http://www.africafocus.org/docs07/heal0701.php
    In his State of the Union message this week, U.S. President George Bush declared "To whom much is given, much is required." He went on to pledge to "continue to fight HIV/AIDS, especially on the continent of Africa." But while activists acknowledge the additional attention given to health in recent years, they say both African and international leaders are still falling far short of fulfilling their promises.