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01.09.2004 Nepali AIDS activists are angry that while millions of dollars are
spent on marketing condoms and other prevention strategies, over 10,000 people a year die for lack of treatment. But they can do little in the face of the donors’ decision to prioritise prevention over care.

01.09.2004 There are at least two million domestic workers in Mexico, many of them indigenous female migrants from poor rural areas, whose labour is not recognised as integral to the economy. Whilst the government appears to be dragging its feet, the women are discovering for themselves the extent of their rights and exploitation.

01.09.2004 There are at least two million domestic workers in Mexico, many of them indigenous female migrants from poor rural areas, whose labour is not recognised as integral to the economy. Whilst the government appears to be dragging its feet, the women are discovering for themselves the extent of their rights and exploitation.

01.09.2004 India’s drive to produce cheap generic drugs for its 5 million people living with HIV/AIDS has hit a glitch: energetic economic reforms in the 1990s have left the country with one of the lowest public health outlays in the world and a rapidly privatising health delivery system that ignores the poor. It’s a challenge for India’s new centre-left government whose promises sound too impressive to be credible.

17.08.2004 Africa's urban poor have found innovative ways of using mobile phones at little or no cost. But, says leading ICT expert Mawaki Chango, building Africa's information society will take more than just giving people access to new communication technologies. Africa's culture of withholding information needs to change too.