Poverty

Guest post by Angharad: Ending homelessness – but not with the help of the AMA

Larvatus Prodeo - January 5, 2009 - 3:28am

Commenter Angharad discusses Kevin Rudd’s homelessness white paper which didn’t get much discussion because of its timing, but deserves some because of the importance of the issue. -MB

A few days before Christmas, Kevin Rudd launched a white paper on homelessness The Road Home with far less fan fare than the climate change white paper a few weeks earlier. Read more »

Mbeki’s AIDS legacy - 330,000 premature deaths, 35,000 HIV-infected babies

Larvatus Prodeo - November 27, 2008 - 2:42pm

As far as I understand it, Thabo Mbeki’s exit from office was not directly attributable to his reprehensible policies on AIDS. But, on their own, they are sufficient grounds to disgrace his legacy. The New York Times reports on an epidemiological study by researchers at Harvard University’s School of Public Health of the human cost of those policies.

From the study’s abstract: Read more »