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April 25, 2003
Bankers trump human lives
Well, well. Developing countries, constantly accused of waste and mismangement by self-righteous Western conservatives, in fact spend more on paying their debts to the West than they do on health care.
This in countries where millions of people are already HIV infected. 2.3 million Africans died of AIDS in 2001; another 28 million are infected. In several countries, 20 or even 30 percent of the population carries the virus.
The suffering is devastating. More than 13 million children are AIDS orphans, who have lost both parents to the disease and are left to fend for themselves.
Posted by Tyrone at April 25, 2003 08:57 AM