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.
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.
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.