As always, debate ensued around the state of affairs in Africa, and we touched on politics, education, health, AID, trade, AIDS, assembly plants, and tourism.

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The General Assembly of the United Nations has concluded a special session on AIDS. More money than ever is being spent to fight AIDS, yet only a fraction of people with HIV in developing countries are being treated with life-saving drugs.

NPR: Global AIDS Policy Tiptoes Around Prevention

This battle is so urgent that Dr. Charles Van Der Horst, a pioneering AIDS researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was arrested at the General Assembly, despite having completed a 199-mile ultra-marathon the previous day.

CNN: North Carolina lawmakers shame state