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Race against time : searching for hope in AIDS-ravaged Africa / by Stephen Lewis.

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Van Pelt Library HN773.5 .L49 2006
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Lewis, Stephen, 1937-
Series:
CBC Massey lectures
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Education.
International relief.
Evaluation.
Africa.
International relief--Africa--Evaluation.
UN Millennium Project.
AIDS (Disease)--Africa.
AIDS (Disease).
Education--Africa.
Women's rights.
Human rights--Africa.
Human rights.
Poverty--Africa.
Poverty.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--epidemiology.
HIV Infections--prevention & control.
Anti-HIV Agents--supply & distribution.
Health Education.
International Cooperation.
Africa--epidemiology.
Education Africa (Organization).
Human Rights Africa (Organization).
International relief--Evaluation.
Medical Subjects:
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--epidemiology.
HIV Infections--prevention & control.
Anti-HIV Agents--supply & distribution.
Health Education.
International Cooperation.
Poverty.
Africa--epidemiology.
Physical Description:
xvi, 214 pages ; 20 cm.
Edition:
Second edition.
Place of Publication:
Toronto : House of Anansi Press, 2006.
Summary:
""I have spent the last four years watching people die." With these wrenching words, diplomat and humanitarian Stephen Lewis opens his 2005 Massey Lectures. In 2000, the United Nations introduced eight Millennium Development Goals on fundamental issues such as education, health, and cutting poverty in half by 2015. In audacious prose, alive with anecdotes ranging from maddening to hilarious to heartbreaking, Lewis shows why and how the international community is falling desperately short of these goals. He probes the appalling gap between vision and current reality, but he also offers bracingly attainable solutions."--Jacket.
Contents:
Context : it shames and diminishes us all
Pandemic : my country is on its knees
Education : an avalanche of studies, little studying
Women : half the world, barely represented
Solutions : a gallery of alternatives in good faith.
Notes:
"With a new afterword."
Other Format:
Online version: Lewis, Stephen, 1937- Race against time.
ISBN:
9780887847530
0887847536
OCLC:
69186663

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