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Volume 19 No. 1. April 2005 — Table of Contents

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Cover Story:

Africa getting a boost on aid and debt relief

After years of a debilitating debt burden and declining aid flows to Africa, the winds are starting to shift. African and international demands for more support to Africa have been mounting. Now, the continent’s main creditors and donors finally seem ready to move towards real financial relief, which could ease one of the major obstacles to Africa’s development

Combating Africa’s ‘silent tsunamis’

Donor momentum builds for greater aid to the continent

child with banner for cancellation of debt.

New urgency for cancelling Africa’s debt

G-8 powers consider full write-off of multilateral obligations

small boy

Global AIDS treatment drive takes off

Access to anti-AIDS drugs has increased, but still reaches only 8% of Africans who need them.

Interview

with Nobel Prize laureate Wangari Maathai:
Getting to the heart of the matter

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