Waging a global fight more efficiently
President George W. Bush's pledge to increase spending on the fight against AIDS by $10 billion over the next five years is encouraging, even historic. The president's budget, however, falls far
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Generic drugs can make the money last
Many lives hang in the balance as the world's trade ministers debate allowing poor countries continued access to cheap generic drugs. Last month, officials left a meeting in Tokyo without resolving
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Africa surprises Africans, too
All across Africa, the tour guides and park rangers guiding foreigners on safari have a little secret : The wild animals are just as exotic to many of them as to the tourists. Africa's population of
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Heading off a tobacco plague
A global convention that would greatly restrict the marketing of tobacco products
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Abortion and breast cancer
A crude effort by anti-abortion groups and their supporters in the U.S. Congress to associate abortion with an increased risk of breast cancer can now be stopped in its tracks. A definitive
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The world gets smaller
Remember the number 1.85. It is the lodestar of a new demography that will led us to a different world. It should change the way we think about economics, geopolitics, the environment, culture
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Frustrating war on hepatitics C
Drugs that interfere with HIV have had a major effect in reductin death and disability from AIDS. Now drug companies are beginning to test the first similar drugs for the hepatitis C virus, which can
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Scarring the Arctic wilderness
A leading question in the debate over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northern Alaska is whether wilderness can coexist with oil wells on America's only Arctic cost.
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India retreats on plan to trim subsidies for fertilizer
India has bowed to public pressure and scrapped a plan to cut its fertilizer subsidy, a move that analysts say casts doubt on the government's pledge to reducing borrowing. Finance Minister Jaswant
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Iraq may face famine in war's wake
As the Bush administration draws closer to a war with Iraq, relief organizatons in the region say they have neither sufficient supplies nor enough money to cope with millions of injured, displaced