Tajudeen A. Raheem
 Dr Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem is General_secretary of the Global Pan African Movement since 1994, based in Kampala, Uganda and also Director of Justice Africa, based in London. Tajudeen is Nigerian by origin and is resident in Uganda and London. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford where he gained his DPhil in political science. He was a founder member of the Africa Resource and Information Bureau, London, and has been at the centre of numerous initiatives to promote peace and democracy in Africa. Tajudeen writes and lectures on Africa for several journals and universities. He is Chairperson of the Centre for Democratic Development and the Pan African Development Education and Advocacy Programme.
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Yesterday was World Aids Day. The previous week and the rest of this week is being used to focus global attention on the pandemic and what we all, rulers and subjects, victims and carers, local, national, regional and international actors can do to fight the scourge. Africa, as the continent with the largest number of infected people is rightly getting a lot of attention. 25 million people (almost half of the global total) across this continent are living with the killer disease which has not even peaked in some of the worst affected countries like Botswana, who have an almost 40% infection rate. The gender impact of the disease, the class burden and demographic distribution is even more devastating, with at least one in six children affected. Meanwhile the daily death rate is mounting. Whatever one's view of statistics, its uses and abuses, the stark truth is that our peoples are dying and dying in great numbers and doomed to die in greater numbers and we have to (and can) do something, something very drastic, to arrest the situation. There is no point arguing about how the disease arrived or quarrel with the apocalyptic scenarios. While the arguments may be useful to historians of science and medicine and academics they do not address the problems at hand. Our people are dying. |
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