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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dale Baker who wrote (574)	8/28/2006 5:47:04 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 1267

Dale > A top United Nations official delivered a blistering attack on South Africa on Friday at the closing of the 16th international AIDS meeting here, saying that its government “is still obtuse, dilatory and negligent about rolling out treatment.” news.yahoo.com >>South Africa ordered to offer AIDS care A South African judge Monday ordered the government to start providing anti-AIDS medication immediately to sick prisoners at a Durban prison, throwing out an appeal by the health and prison ministries against an earlier ruling. Judge Chris Nicholson said the government was in contempt of court for ignoring the previous order. "If the Government of the Republic of South Africa has given such an instruction not to comply with the execution order, then we face a grave constitutional crisis involving a serious threat to the doctrine of the separation of powers," he said in a 21-page judgment.<< As if the government gives a damn.