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WASHINGTON — The number of people infected with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to far outstrip available resources for treatment by the end of the decade, forcing African nations to make difficult choices about how to allocate inadequate supplies of lifesaving antiretroviral therapy (ART),…

The Civil Society Conference held on 27-28 October 2010 was a historic turning point in the history of South Africa. Over 300 delegates from 56 mass-based civil society organisations, with a combined membership of millions of South Africans, came together to rebuild a strong, mass…

OPINION: Unless the North agrees how to share its future, devolution will have failed and potential will rot, writes DUNCAN MORROW  EVEN AS the memory dims, the Irish peace process has the capacity to stir pride. A centuries-long Greek tragedy had an unexpected end. British-Irish relations…

by Gara LaMarche and Deepak BhargavaTwenty-one months after Barack Obama was inaugurated on a wave of hope for change in America's politics and policies, at least two important and seemingly contradictory things can be said.First, there has been a series of significant progressive reforms: an economic stimulus bill…

Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, discussed his concerns about a growing need for a stronger moral framework for philanthropy at the Starr Forum at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.   Forty-five years ago, a young aide named Bill Moyers sat in the…

By Carol Paton.  Jay Naidoo, co-founder of investment holding company J&J Group, has given away a third of his wealth to charitable causes — echoing the “giving campaign” of US billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. Naidoo, who with fellow former trade unionist Jayendra Naidoo,…

The Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) from the US and the Australia’s Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF) have provided more than US$2 million to help improve the Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology (VNIO). The focus of a two-year project will be on four main fields: developing a training…

By Caitlin Ross.  A state-of-the-art Life Sciences building – the best of its kind on the continent – was officially opened on Tuesday at the University of the Western Cape. Speaking at the opening ceremony, attended by an illustrious guest list including figureheads in education…

By Gara LaMarche.  It’s bold of Jeff Madrick, a journalist who writes about economics in The New York Review of Books and elsewhere, to title this book “The Case for Big Government.”  Despite the colossal failures of government in recent years -- from the inadequate…

Pat Carey T.D., Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, today (Monday, 21st June 2010) launched a new Government initiative to support philanthropy in Ireland. The key elements of the 5 point plan - which aim to create an enabling environment for planned giving -…