Iraq War Casualties, African Aids Deaths Focus of St. Mike's Conference
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European and U.S. nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) operating in Iraq are guilty of "going along with the whole embedding process that limited the media's ability to report accurately on the invasion and occupation," [Les Roberts] charges. He accuses the NGOs of "blurring the definition of 'humanitarian' so much that they've turned into something close to military collaborators."
He acknowledges that thousands of Africans' lives have been saved as a result of President [George W. Bush]'s $15 billion AIDS-relief initiative. But the Bush program's "obsession with abstinence has done a great deal of damage," [Stephen Lewis] adds. "Its dominance over distribution of condoms has been very detrimental to the struggle."Vermonters attending the all-day event at St. Michael's will be challenged to act on the commitment cited by [Nils Daulaire], who also emphasizes the need for activism by warning that "what happens in faraway places winds up coming home." Diseases can now spread around the world "at almost supersonic speeds," he notes. And miserable living conditions in Africa, Asia and Latin America can further threaten the health and welfare of Vermonters by "serving as a major source of instability, conflict and terrorism."See the full content of this document
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Iraq War Casualties, African Aids Deaths Focus of St. Mike's Conference
COLCHESTER - The co-author of a disputed study on the Iraq death toll is scheduled to join the outspoken former head of the U.N.'s Africa AIDS program in addressing an upcoming global health conference at St. Michael's College.
In defending his own team's estimate of 655,000 war-rel...See the full content of this document
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