Collection(s) : Arguments
Paru le 03/01/2008 | Broché 170 pages
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translated Jo Ann Cahn | foreword Jo Ann Cahn | préface Michel Kazatchkine
It is urgent to "save Africa" from AIDS. For the first time, an African policy-maker analyses the pandemic in depth, describing its dynamics and raising new questions and new issues. The stakes are high: the future of Africa and its development depend on the answers. In this appeal, Urbain Olanguena Awono underlines the importance of international action for universal access to prevention and treatment.
Overcoming this challenge demands major investments, ever increasing human and financial resources and a permanent political commitment. To reverse the course of the epidemic, the author recommends the idea of a "social vaccine" that calls on the responsibility of African leaders and African communities. Today we must defy the taboos and break with some sociocultural factors likely to nourish new infections. The Cameroonian Minister of Health pleads for an "inculturation" of the combat against this disease that is deconstructing the economic and social tissue of the continent and risks condemning it.
Urbain Olanguena Awono has given a remarkable impetus to the fight against AIDS in his country by institutional advocacy and proactive efforts that have made important changes and significant progress possible. Minister of Public Health of Cameroon (April 2001-September 2007), administrator and president of the Finance and Audit Committee of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, he has become the advocate for poor countries within this institution. Mr. U.O. Awono, born July 16th 1955 at Polo-Sa'a, in the Lékié division of Cameroon, has a doctorate in business law. He has directed diverse structural reforms in his country and is recognised as an expert in economic and financial issues as well as in development policy.
