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Posted: Wednesday September 13th, 2006 14:35 |
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Vubundada_Kandaba wrote: @All, this post is opened to anyone who wants to contibute.
@DtotheJ. If you read the histories of the countries I listed as model countries, you will realize that South Korea, and Brazil were ruled for the better part by military regimes. Just because you have a military regime in power does not mean the Country is unstable. Haiti has the potential to be an economic power like Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Ireland. History has proven that you do not necessarily need natural resources to become an economic power. If Haiti had GOOD LEADERS with a vision for her future and a long term plan of 20-30 years then Haiti will lift herself out of poverty and would be a role model for the Caribbeann Nations with African Majority. With an Educated population, Haitians can build with their own hands(in Haiti) Haitian made Vehicles, Computers, Refrigerators, Aircrafts, Vaccines, Medicines/Drugs, Electronics, Electrical Goods, Chemicals, Processed Foods, FUBUs, Office Furnitures, Home Furnitures, Steel, Home Improvement Goods, and many many things.
Vub, this goes back to 2 things I wrote...political stability and opening a book to page 56.
Haiti has been unstable since 1804.......and that includes the past 5, 10, 15 years...
the historic reasons for the instability have roots to back when it was still a colony of france....
and they still exist today.....any "good leader" of the country has to deal with this...and has to deal with population that has proven to be impatient with long term plans for the country....
the population has widespread illiteracy......only those with money can attend schools and learn commerce language of france.....and most of the island speaks/reads only kreyol......
there are fundamental, structural changes that have to made to Haiti before any real talk about economic development can take place. these will take a long time.....but history has shown that the population will not tolerate long term slow progress.
It will take at LEAST 20 years to change education system in the country to truly have an educated population.
i agree with your point about miltary regimes/"dictators" not necesarily being "bad" for a country...BUT..ONLY if they develop the country...
if they are in charge and only interested in bullying people and pillaging the treasury....they are abusing the power....
I don't think democracy is a hat that fits everybody..... but however a leader mainstains order......if he is helping the economic progress of his country overall...and maintaining a safe educated society...that country is moving in the right direction....
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Posted: Wednesday September 13th, 2006 16:32 |
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DtotheJ wrote: .....any "good leader" of the country has to deal with this...and has to deal with population that has proven to be impatient with long term plans for the country.... the population has widespread illiteracy......only those with money can attend schools and learn commerce language of france.....and most of the island speaks/reads only kreyol......there are fundamental, structural changes that have to made to Haiti before any real talk about economic development can take place. these will take a long time.....but history has shown that the population will not tolerate long term slow progress.
It will take at LEAST 20 years to change education system in the country to truly have an educated population.
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@DtotheJ. So how do we go about changing the political and social attitudes? What are the FUNDAMENTAL STRUCURAL CHANGES that needs to be made and WHY ARE THEY NO MADE?
I know the answers to the questions I posed but I want to hear your views and the views of others. Obviously things can not remain the way they are and something needs to change and it needs to change fast.
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Posted: Wednesday September 13th, 2006 17:03 |
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Vubundada_Kandaba wrote: @
@TheDogon. Not to put words in your mouth like you said, but moving Africa from a Commodity Based Economy to a Manufacturing based Economy is not changing the culture. I don't know what culture you are talking about. Forgive me If I read you wrong, but are you implying that those Africans who are fisherman would rather fish for the rest of their lives as opposed to working in a Manufacturing facility because they are afraid to loose their fishing culture?
VK? I don't know what to do with you. We need another Continental African in here. Because for some reason, you have, in my opinion have lost track of what the Human Experience is about.
I don't know much about African Culture(s). That's why I stray away from criticism of them. Because I haven't walked an inch in the shoes of those people. I don't excuse murder, rape, ignorance, or any of the above. But I would think that we could, after all Africans have been through look at them and say, maybe just maybe, this is going to take awhile.
I draw upon examples in America that I know about. The American Indian tribe that I spoke of. . .weren't even traditionally fishermen. They just thought it felt better than being a bunch of lawyers. It felt "truer" to their nature to them.
Who the hell am I to judge them?
And being an descendant of African Cultures, why would I look at the land of my "birth" with such a critical eye?
I asked you a question.
If these changes are made by so many, so effortlessly, why are Africans having such a hard time?
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Posted: Wednesday September 13th, 2006 17:05 |
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Vubundada_Kandaba wrote: DtotheJ wrote: .....any "good leader" of the country has to deal with this...and has to deal with population that has proven to be impatient with long term plans for the country.... the population has widespread illiteracy......only those with money can attend schools and learn commerce language of france.....and most of the island speaks/reads only kreyol......there are fundamental, structural changes that have to made to Haiti before any real talk about economic development can take place. these will take a long time.....but history has shown that the population will not tolerate long term slow progress.
It will take at LEAST 20 years to change education system in the country to truly have an educated population.
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@DtotheJ. So how do we go about changing the political and social attitudes? What are the FUNDAMENTAL STRUCURAL CHANGES that needs to be made and WHY ARE THEY NO MADE?
I know the answers to the questions I posed but I want to hear your views and the views of others. Obviously things can not remain the way they are and something needs to change and it needs to change fast.
I think DtotheJ is using a very critical word. "Fundamental". If you have to change a system by tearing it down all the way and then create a new foundation to build upon. . .maybe that's a very hard thing to do.
If they simply had to modify their behaviors or their processes, it wouldn't be a big deal.
This is a big deal.
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Posted: Wednesday September 13th, 2006 17:43 |
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Vubundada_Kandaba wrote: DtotheJ wrote: .....any "good leader" of the country has to deal with this...and has to deal with population that has proven to be impatient with long term plans for the country.... the population has widespread illiteracy......only those with money can attend schools and learn commerce language of france.....and most of the island speaks/reads only kreyol......there are fundamental, structural changes that have to made to Haiti before any real talk about economic development can take place. these will take a long time.....but history has shown that the population will not tolerate long term slow progress.
It will take at LEAST 20 years to change education system in the country to truly have an educated population.
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@DtotheJ. So how do we go about changing the political and social attitudes? What are the FUNDAMENTAL STRUCURAL CHANGES that needs to be made and WHY ARE THEY NO MADE?
I know the answers to the questions I posed but I want to hear your views and the views of others. Obviously things can not remain the way they are and something needs to change and it needs to change fast.
If a person truly was compelled to become a leader to try to change the situation in Haiti in a real way..the task would prove too daunting for all but the most driven person.
To enter office and steal money...make gestures of change is nothing... to do that?..many are capable.
Once leader...takes office there is no real incentive to do much...it BENEFITS a leader to have poorly educated populace..
They leave the care of the country to the white missionaries(catholic educators), handful of white corporations(raping the workers), Haitians living abroad(sending money back home) , and continue to beg for foreig
n aid that never goes anywhere and develops anything....
Politics is a JOB in haiti, so others are always going to try to topple the leaders, no matter what kind of progress is being made, so that they can enter an employ their people....as with most poor countries...politics is one of the only viable 'industries"....leaders have to have heavy handed tactics.... to prevent these others from toppling them....and sometimes they go overboard and silence the press for even criticizing them...
I haven't even mentioned the 200 year long political /social struggle between the Black masses and the mulatto minority......
or the widespread drug trafficking from south america or the violence it has brought
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1st...Haiti is desperately deforested..and needs to launch tree planting campaign .....lack of trees has destroyed the soil in Haiti..makes it more prone to hurrican damage,etc
2. Stop begging for money and ask for foreign aid in the form of INSTRUCTION......teachers, agriculturists, engineers should be asked to come in and teach the peopl basic things and practices that the entire world is aware of....get us out of our isolation
court Cuba and Venezuela for this asistance..education, health care
3. public works....fix the damned roads in the country to encourage those who are trying to do business in the country...
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Posted: Wednesday September 13th, 2006 18:16 |
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Posted: Wednesday September 13th, 2006 19:06 |
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The sad part is, it is not as hard as it seems.
For instance Haiti
First and foremost, I would present a business plan to larger countries for a 10 year plan on restructuring the country to borrow money.
Once, I had the money, I would simply buy the people clothing, food and construct decent housing for them, policed by decent Haitian men. Healthcare would also be provided for all that needed it free of charge. I would have to build water treatment plants as well as better sewage systems.
After easing some of their woes and fears, I would tell the people that they are going to have to learn a trade and offer them free schooling with incentives to move into better areas after being schooled no matter their age.
Some businesses and farmers would have to be subisidized for a few years as to allow the country's inflation to go down.
I would have to provide breaks for corporations to come in for the first few years but make sure that the wages they offer are cheaper than wages offered in the US to incite them to move, but not so low they abuse my people. I would also declare that management in these companies train Haitians to be on the management tier instead of inviting foreigners to command higher positions. Any company not adhering to these rules would see their competitor invited in with better breaks as the previous company's breaks dissolved.
I would also turn the country's main commodity as a place of relaxation and banking. In short make us the Switzerland of the Carribean. While we would not be able to provide secrecy on banking immediately, we would be able to do it to all.
Companies that buy our exported goods would also be invited onto the island as well. There by allowing us to buy the processed goods without incurring the overhead and export tax from other countries.
Some farmers would lose their land due to the build up of banks and hotel resorts, but I think that the overall benefit would be of better use.
I would require all males over the age of 19 to join the military and serve intermittently for 3 years to know how to defend the country in case of attack. As well as unifying all that it is their country. The UN would train and adminster this army for
After year 5, I would hire a proven African former CEO to work with a chosen good man/woman in each of the departments for a year or two for training. The heads of these departments would be responsible for gathering the people and seeing what their primary needs were in each. We would try to tackle the top 5 to continue our gain for the trust of the people. Having a former CEO at their side would teach the leader how to administer but allow the administrator to still be able to weigh the decisions needed for the people.
At the end of 10, I would hope to have a trained workforce, proud of its nation and turning a profit enough to ween itself off of international support
At that point, I would ask the people if I could have 5 more years at the helm and would proceed to ease the other problems that we left on the back burner. I am not a fool when I think I could eradicate crime, but I know crime dies fast when jobs are abundant. Only the really greedy would persist in lives of crime. I would then at this point also be sure to turn us into a totally private banking state in which investors from all over the world would have to pay a tax once a year based on their "holdings" through us or transferred to Swiss bank accounts.
Just a start, but with a small nation like Haiti, the key first is to winning the hearts of the people and showing that them that you are doing something. You will have to let them know what you are doing and a time table but it is going to have to start with a huge up front investment without a look for a turnaround immediately but it can be done.
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Posted: Wednesday September 13th, 2006 19:29 |
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Safety, how would you get elected....and how would you deal with the resistance that you would surely encounter/
how would you stop the rampant violence and kidnapping? with funding from where?
why would other nations agree to your plan?
how would you get UN cooperation?
how would you counter the mulattoes who have great wealth and resources and would try to undermine your presdency?
how would you counter US intervention/economic bullying?
how would you silence your political rivals? who know how to undermine your efforts and create discension among the masses?
A successful Haitian american man tried to run for president last time..think he is high ranking exec. here...and he had similiar plans......
he was viewed as an outsider representing foreign interests...... Haitians have complete contempt for outsiders coming to control the island.....
there are people in place who have interest in the country remaining just as it is......and who benefit from the chaos.........they would be in position to lose money if country improves/stabilizes..and they will fight you tooth and nail......Haitians and foreigners...
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Posted: Wednesday September 13th, 2006 20:11 |
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The problem with Africa is its always playing catch up.The industrial ,information and computer relvolution it was on the outside looking it.Time for it to look beyond the next mountain and plan for 2050 and not next week.
I've seen colonization up close and its anot a pretty sight.Hell , lets talk basic services.We need to get that togheter first.Running water, good schools, sanitation and the rest.Then we can move on.
The next frontier will be nano-technology,hydro-electric power and space.Africa has the potential to thrive in all three.But too many leaders are distracted by a phat ass, a Benz, some cash and damn litle else.
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Posted: Thursday September 14th, 2006 00:19 |
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defyfear wrote: Vubundada_Kandaba or any
I just want to get some more information on this. There is still alot of want.
Technology transfer in terms of manufacturing to a large degree.
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@defyfear. It is important to highlight the term "Technology". It not only refers to the Technical Machinery and Equipment ( Hard Technology) but it also refers to the notion of "Soft" Technology, that is the Technological Information or Know-How. The know-how is brought or obtained through research and innovation.
To the best of my knowledge the United States and Europe allow the transfer of technolgy to other Countries (excluding countries listed as sponsors of terror) as long as the Technolgies being transfered are not less than ten (10) years old. At this point in time, we do not need the transfer of Advance High Tech Technolgies such as chip and micro-processor processing. We in Africa need to start off with the old Technolgies to allow as to manufacture our own basic CONSUMER GOODS. There are various technolgies available for transfer and the problem is that many Third World Countries don't know which ones to to buy and transfer over.
For a country to develop; it needs as a matter of priority (1) Various Chemical Processing facilities to process all the chemicals that goes into the manufacturing of CONSUMER GOODS. (2) Raw Materials Processing Facilities to process, purify and convert the raw materials (Natural Resources) into finished intermediates. With these two (2) in place the country can then begin to start the manufacture of GOODS it needs for its population. The Technologies (Hard and Soft) for Chemical Processing and Raw Material Processing are available for purchase( provided they are not Advance and recently discovered). For instance if the country wants to process and produce Sulfuric Acid, then it can buy the Machinery and the Technological know-how from the seller of the Equipment in the West. The only Technologies that are not allowed for transfer are in relative new fields and the processing of Super materials for use in Space Shuttle etc, etc which we do not need at the moment.
Here is information on the above that I had with me for a while until you asked the question.
DANISH PROGRAMME SUPPORT TO TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
By Poul Brath, Manager, Focal Point for Technology for Developing Countries (FpTDc),
Danish Technological Institute, Taastrup
I. THE FOCAL POINT FOR TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
The Focal Point for Technology for Developing Countries (FpTDc) has existed since January 1991. It was originally established on a three-year trial basis with financing by the Danish International Development Assistance Agency (Danida). The grant has now been secured until the end of 1996.
The Focal Point is currently active in four ways, all of which overlap in practice. These are: (1) to assist Danish companies in all matters concerning technology transfer to developing countries. The aim of the Focal Point's consultancy assistance is to ensure that the technology provided by Danish companies can function - on both a short-term and a long-term basis - in the technical, social and economic conditions of the developing countries; (2) to inform companies about problems and possibilities in the aid market and the commercial markets of the developing countries; (3) to administer a subsidy scheme from which Danish companies can obtain financial to develop products suitable for conditions in the developing countries. In this connection, the Focal Point offers assistance in the planning of the development projects; (4) to publish the newsletter 'Nyt fra Kontaktpunktet', and the series 'Information' and to organize conferences and seminars. By these means relevant information on technology transfer is communicated to Danish companies, donor organizations and others engaged in technology transfer to developing countries.
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Posted: Thursday September 14th, 2006 04:00 |
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I am checking this out
http://www.scidev.net/content/news/eng/technology-transfer-essential-for-african-agriculture.cfm
But overall, Jones painted a gloomy picture, in which agricultural productivity had been declining in Africa for the past four to five decades. Aware of the economic and social importance of agriculture, in 2002 the continent's political leaders called for African agriculture to grow at an annual rate of six per cent by 2020.
Why would political leaders just state a goal and not follow up on it. This does not make sense.
He emphasised that science and technology had an important role to play. But for this to happen, it would be important to build up both institutions and human resources, as well as reform research practices, he said.
"For example, national institutions tend to stretch themselves too thinly, and operate on meagre resources. They need to diversify their sources of funding, and also involve the users of research — including farmers and the private sector who will be responsible for taking technology to the market — from the outset."
It leads back to funding as key but not only that he states there needs to be a diversity in the sources of funding. Meaning most if not all African countries seem to have one channel to tap financially. To me that is a monopoly or near monopoly on financial resources. No democracy in the financial houses of Africa. Someone gives and someone takes.
He said research institutes needed to become more involved in agribusiness and with production. "We need to develop agricultural markets in Africa, as well as find ways of developing appropriate technologies," said Jones, adding that it was important "to follow an 'innovation system' approach to agricultural research for development".
He seems to indicate that there is an apartheid between research institutes (government run I suppose) and agribusiness in Africa. If that is so the gulf for manufacturing and the funding of such even for take for granted consumer goods in Africa must be quite distant.
This has got me thinking...
How many malaria research institutes are directly in Africa?
How many AIDS research institutes are directly in Africa?
There should be more in Africa than the world combined but so far I am not getting the answers I am looking for. Much money globally is spent on these matters but...
http://malaria.jhsph.edu/jhmri/the_malaria_institute_at_macha/a_new_research_center_is_born
But let me not side track though
came across something you might be indicating such as this
http://www.malnutrition.org/Africa23.htm
and some idea of what their goals
http://www.malnutrition.org/vg_tech.htm
But even these basic ideas are marketed to NGOs most of all and not to individual African villages. This is not a great way to see a place and people with potential.
Which leads me to another point.
Markets.
What kind of market do Western companies and government see Africa as? This is an important question relating to why technology transfer has not occured a great speeds like in other countries around the world.
My indication they do not see Africa as a market hence technology transfer has remained relatively tightly regulated in terms of manufacturing.
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Some related kind of off beaten track news from Malaysia and current trends happening
Malaysian fertility rate drops
06 September, 2006
PETALING JAYA: A survey conducted by the National Population and Family Development Board (LPPKN) shows that the total fertility rate in Malaysia has declined from 3.4 in 1994 to 2.8 in 2004.
Women, Family and Community Development Deputy Minister Datuk G Palanivel said the decline could be expected to continue if the country kept moving towards an industrialised society as many population theorists had expounded that an educated public was more discerning about family formation and size.
"However, considering the contraceptive prevalence rate in Malaysia has plateaued at around 50 per cent since the last two decades, we are at a crossroad in view of the declining total fertility rate," he said when addressing the National Population Conference here, Tuesday.
He said that a low fertility would bring about changes in the population structure which would result in among others an ageing of the population and feminisation of elderly population.
Based on the Population Strategic Plan Studies conducted in 1992, the Government realised that it was the quality and not the quantity of the population that mattered, he said.
"Now, after almost fifteen years later, this has to be reviewed," he said and added that the Ministry was currently studying the best options for population policies for the country.
"Should we sustain population growth as it is now at 2.6 per cent or should we intervene strongly to decrease it further? No doubt future population growth has to be in balance with resources and sustainable development," he said.
Currently, the country's population is estimated to be almost 27 million. Meanwhile, the board in its January "POP Info Malaysia" newsletter said that late marriages among better educated women was one of the reasons the fertility rate in the country had dropped.
It said that almost 13 per cent of women with tertiary education in their 30s had never been married.
"With better education, delayed and non-marriage will become more prevalent. Marriage postponement shortens childbearing span and will result in a further fertility decline," it said.
LPPKN said the fertility level in the country had declined for all age groups and was relatively more pronounced among the younger and older age groups.
"This indicates that women are entering childbearing later and are stopping at a younger age," it said.
It also said that the fertility level was influenced by a host of socio-economic variables and based on the Fourth Malaysian Population and Family Survey 2004, showed that the number of children being born varied widely according to educational level, whereby women with no schooling having almost twice as many children as those with tertiary education.
It said with socio-economic development, the fertility level has been falling more rapidly than the "recommended" rate of decline than as envisaged in the country's population policy launched in 1994.
The country's population policy targets a population size of 70 million by the year 2100 and the fertility rate to decline gradually by 0.1 every five years.- Bernama
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Some India company news with a team up with US of America firms which could serve some purpose for Africa perhaps but I am seeing it as another part of NGOs toolkit...
US, India firms develop new cure for black fever
Posted by admin on 2006/9/13 3:01:36
Washington, Sep 13 (IANS) An Indian and an American firms have jointly developed a new lifelong cure for kala-azar, or black fever as visceral leishmaniasis (VL), the second most deadly parasitic disease in the world following malaria, is known in India.
The drug was prepared by OneWorld Health, a San Francisco charity focusing on treatments for neglected diseases, in collaboration with the Hyderabad-based drug manufacturer Gland Pharma Limited, the American company announced.
The drug is expected to be a key tool for India's National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), which aims to rid the country of VL by 2010, and disease control programmes in other VL-endemic countries.
The Drug-Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved Paromomycin Intramuscular (IM) Injection to treat the disease that kills an estimated 500,000 people a year, 90 percent of them in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Brazil and Sudan.
The application to the DCGI was based on data from a large Phase III multi-centre, randomised and controlled clinical trial of 667 adult and paediatric patients conducted in Bihar State, India, which showed that nearly all patients (94.6 percent) treated with Paromomycin were cured of VL.
A 21-day course of the drug provides a safe, affordable, and effective cure for kala-azar. A full course of treatment stimulates a specific, cell-mediated immune response, resulting in life-long protection from future infection.
The approval of Paromomycin IM Injection is a major milestone in global health, providing a lifelong cure for a deadly parasitic disease, the American firm said.
"With this approval, the Institute for OneWorld Health, with the vital support of our partners, has proven that it is possible to develop new medicines using an entrepreneurial, non-profit model," said OneWorld Health Founder and CEO Victoria G. Hale.
"We are pleased that the first drug in our portfolio will be an important public health tool to help the Indian government safely and affordably control VL."
Gland Pharma will make the medicine available at approximately $10 per lifetime cure, a significantly lower price than currently approved VL therapies.
Since VL afflicts many people in remote villages and regions that lack a strong healthcare infrastructure, OneWorld Health will initiate a Phase IV pilot access programme in Bihar to facilitate the introduction of Paromomycin IM Injection in these settings. To support its work with partners in India, OneWorld Health will open a liaison office in New Delhi and a programme office in Patna, Bihar.
"We are proud to have partnered with OneWorld Health to help meet the critical need for new treatments for kala-azar," said Ravi Penmetsa, the managing director of Gland Pharma Limited.
"This partnership is an innovative way for our company to use its expertise and corporate philanthropy to benefit India. With our combined resources, we are confident that we will make Paromomycin IM Injection available in India and save the lives of people afflicted with kala-azar."
The development of Paromomycin IM Injection to fight VL was made possible by a unique collaboration among OneWorld Health, Gland Pharma Limited, the International Dispensary Association (IDA), IDA Solutions, the World Health Organisation's special programme for research and training in tropical diseases (WHO/TDR) and the government of India. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provided funding for clinical testing of Paromomycin.
"This is an important milestone in the fight against visceral leishmaniasis, and it demonstrates the potential for public-private partnerships to develop new solutions to serious global health problems," said Regina Rabinovich, programme director of the Gates Foundation's Infectious Diseases Programme.
VL currently occurs in 62 countries, primarily in the developing world. Of the approximately 500,000 new cases of VL occurring annually, 90 percent are found in just five countries: India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sudan and Brazil. The most affected state in India is Bihar, but VL is also endemic in Jharkhand, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh.
--By Arun Kumar
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@VK if we examine the calibre or source of leadership supply of any nation or group at any given time, the challenges they face, the personal resources they have will tell us much about their projection and where they want to go.
This generation of African leaders for the most part are pygmies in every sense and more interested in tribal politics or the small fish bowl mentailty and what they can gain for themselves and their clique. They have no vision of consequence because you need to be of consequence to have it. They lack shame or pride at the appropriate level because they are nothing but grubby hustlers and crooks.
Who knows what Lumumba or Nkrumah or the early Azikwe etc would have turned out to be, but they had vision and were of calibre. Something this lot haven't got a clue about.
Castro has ambition and the ego to go with it something very lacking in Africa and is not prepared to be any western countries boy no matter how smal his country is. Hence why he fills us with pride in teh Caribbean and even his detractors respect him and his country
What took place in Sierre Leone and Zaire/Congo/DMR is a disgrace to Africa and her descendents and ensure the white world could laugh on us and escape their moral responsibilities and weaken our power. When you have so many Africans as refugees, migrants and all sorts doing every thing to leave their country it tells us much about the leadership and stewardship of this nations and the people who allow it.
Same as Caribbean politics the calibre of these people are a joke. Sit in Parliament and follow a debate and you will see how petty and insignificant most of them are. They simply have given up on being powerful and respected so endugle themselves in their little pastimes which keep local people talking about them. That's about their highest achievement.
Spoke to one on his way to China recently. More excited about the trip than stopping the Chinese f**king us blind....Can't send little boys to do grown folks business.
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DtotheJ wrote: Safety, how would you get elected....and how would you deal with the resistance that you would surely encounter/ Ask for 10 years to straighten out he government then I would leave unless requested to stay longer
how would you stop the rampant violence and kidnapping? with funding from where? That is why I would ask for UN funding to fund and build a police force
why would other nations agree to your plan? Because of me possible having a monetary safe haven close by
how would you get UN cooperation? Beg
how would you counter the mulattoes who have great wealth and resources and would try to undermine your presdency? easy by consistantly showing what they have did for the people over the years versus the housing, food, and healthcare for all.....
how would you counter US intervention/economic bullying? Which is why I would go through the UN. I will have to dance with the devil in his backyard, but it can be done......
how would you silence your political rivals? who know how to undermine your efforts and create discension among the masses? ninjas or strippers to silence them.....they start complaining send them 3 strippers to take the edge off, if they keep complaining, ninjas........LOL
A successful Haitian american man tried to run for president last time..think he is high ranking exec. here...and he had similiar plans......
he was viewed as an outsider representing foreign interests...... Haitians have complete contempt for outsiders coming to control the island.....
there are people in place who have interest in the country remaining just as it is......and who benefit from the chaos.........they would be in position to lose money if country improves/stabilizes..and they will fight you tooth and nail......Haitians and foreigners... yeah I know, I can dream  Still it is hard to fight a plan when a person is fed and housed versus being left to their own. After I actually do something to help them within the first few months. I figure I would have just as much viability as my naysayers after actually providing things free of charge and grooming Haitians to be ready to rule the island themselves in 10 years. I would hope that if I stressed to them that in order to build the island back up they will have to do business with the devil most would probably agree to do so for a while seeing that they should be able to ween themselves off around 20 years.
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FredB wrote: This generation of African leaders for the most part are pygmies in every sense and more interested in tribal politics or the small fish bowl mentailty and what they can gain for themselves and their clique. They have no vision of consequence because you need to be of consequence to have it. They lack shame or pride at the appropriate level because they are nothing but grubby hustlers and crooks. Same as Caribbean politics the calibre of these people are a joke. Sit in Parliament and follow a debate and you will see how petty and insignificant most of them are. FB
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@FredB. Excellent Analysis. It is time Africans rise up and demand that our leaders respect the office and position of serving the people and we must demand Accountabilty, Transparency and Responsibility. The behaviors of our leaders indicate that they indeed hate their Nations and they hate the people they are serving plain and simple. It does not make any sense at all for our leaders to spend Millions of Dollars abroad for Medical treatment and checkup for themselves, their family members, friends and cronies when the money could have been spend on building World Class Hospitals. It does NOT MAKE sense at all when all over Africa today as we speak Foreign Companies are brought in to build Roads, Dams, Power Stations, Bridges, Skycrapers, Hospitals, Hotels, whereas the money could have been used to hire jobless African Engineers and Scientists to do the same job.
The lack of planning by African leaders does NOT MAKE sense at all. As an example consider the TRUE fact that a certain Government in Africa decided to build a Tomato processing Plant/Facility to process all the Tomatoes grown in the Country. They build the Facility/Plant which was a GOOD IDEA, but someone forgot that you also need to build a plant/facility to process/produce the tins (containers) where the processed tomato will be stored in. As a result they ended up importing small tin cans from Eastern Europe which was very costly and the Tomato facility became a failure and had to shut down. This example here illustrates that our leaders do not have the brain power to think and they are stupid, idiots and dumb, plain and simple.
Today in Africa we can see the carcasses of Thousands of such failed projects as illustrated above. All over Africa; governments decide to bring in thousands of fancy public transport buses from abroad. Nobody remembered that you also need GOOD roads for the buses to travel in. Worse of all nobody rememberd to tell the manufactures of the buses that inorder for us to buy your buses, we need you to build a bus assembly plant and worse of all we need workshops and repair part facilities to repair the buses. It is no wonder that awithin 2-3 years all the buses were broke and abandoned.
There is concrete evidence suggesting that Inferiority Complex, Colonial Mentality and Mental Slavery is the major problem inhibiting the Development of Africa. These evidences explains the behaviors of our leaders and the only thing that makes sense to them is the destruction of their own people.
Our leaders suffer from Inferiority complex, colonial mentality and mental slavery and this explains the shameless robbery of African treasury only to be deposited in foreign bank accounts. This also explains why our meagre resources are being used to buy weapons to kill our own people all over Africa. It is the effects of inferiority complex, colonial mentality and mental slavery that causes our leaders to act the way they are acting and they see no shame in doing so. Here is why African leaders hate Africans.
(1) African leaders see no shame when millions of Africans starve to death and instead of helping they keep stealing our money and depositing them abroad.
(2) African leaders see nothing wrong with neglecting the Education of the masses and as a result our teachers are not paid, libraries have no books and universities left without research equipments. They see no shame when one hundred (100) university students share one outdated textbook printed 60 years ago.
(3) African leaders see nothing wrong when the masses have no clean water, clean air. They see nothing wrong with our horrible roads full of potholes and hospitals in horrible conditions.
(4) African leaders are sick and they see nothing wrong when millions die of starvation when infact Africa is the Richest Continent on Earth blessed with abundant Natural Resources, Rivers, Lakes and Water and enough land to grow food.
(5) African leaders see FAILURE as SUCCESS.
(6) African leaders don't see anything wrong with the mass exodus of Africans from the Continent in search of a better life and to them the mass escape from the Continent is normal.
(7) African leaders see nothing wrong with having gold bathtubs, furnitures and two dozen cars driven over roads filled with potholes. To them it is normal for the leaders to live lavishly, eating GOOD FOOD imported from Europe and America while the masses are hungry.
Our leaders do not have shame, vision and common sense. This explains why concepts, technologies and proven methods of development work efficiently everywhere else in the World until it reaches Africa then it ceases to work because of our leaders luclaster approach in implenting these concepts. Consider the GRAMEEN BANK. The Grameen Bank is a system developed by the Asian Country of Bangladesh to alleviate poverty and it was very succesful in Bangladesh and when the concept was transfered over to Africa it failed miserably and never worked. As a popular saying goes, it is not what you do, but it is how you do it.
African leaders do not have the sense of realisation; that businesses, the flow of Technolgy, the prosperity of Africa, and Foreign Investment require Peace, Political Stability, Economic Stability, Accountability, Transparency, Responsibilty, an Educated massive, and a Nation with Skilled Workers. There is a saying that "Money is a coward. It does not go where it is NOT SAFE". Africa is calling for Foreign Investors while at the same time telling the investors that their money and investment is NOT SAFE.
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