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HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC: Using common sense, not condom sense

Sister Dr Miriam Duggan has succeeded where the United Nations and international aid agencies have failed in combating Africa’s HIV/ AIDS epidemic. She recently toured Australia as a guest of the Australian Family Association and spoke to Dr Kerrie Allen. I remember the conversation well. I was at university working on HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean. One of my public health colleagues and I were discussing prostitution in Third World countries with, of all people, a Catholic priest. The priest was arguing that prostitution should be eliminated, and my shocked colleague was arguing that that couldn’t happen because these impoverished women…

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STRAWS IN THE WIND: Germany and the hazards of proportional representation / Minefield Childcare and its critics / Latham diaries fall-out / State-federal jousting

STRAWS IN THE WIND

Germany and the hazards of proportional representation In the recent September 18 German election, that country’s conservative Christian Democrats, plus the Free Democrats, have not been able to improve on the vote they received in the preceding two elections. Germans are against drastic change, it would appear, and the opposition Christian Democrat Union (CDU) leader Angela Merkel was a weak candidate. German conservatives face perhaps an insoluble dilemma, for if they move further right, advocating the rationalisation and the reduction of the present welfare system and trumpeting the necessity of Germans working longer and being paid less, they lose a…

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POPULATION: Communist China’s abuse of pregnant women

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The US Bush Administration is withholding funding from a leading UN agency which collaborates with and subsidises communist China’s draconian forced abortion and sterilisation policies, writes Joseph A. D’Agostino. For the fourth year in a row, the Bush Administration made the right decision recently by withholding funding from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Whether…

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BIOETHICS: Review of cloning and embryo research laws

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Australia’s laws banning human cloning and restricting embryo experimentation are up for review, reports Richard Egan. The review of the Prohibition of Human Cloning Act 2002 and the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002 has now begun in earnest, with the legislation review committee producing an Issues Paper: outline of existing legislation and issues for…

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: China frustrates Taiwan’s bid to play bigger role

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China’s formal veto in the UN Security Council means that Taiwan is denied participation in the UN, writes Jeffry Babb. Taiwan’s application for entry to the United Nations has become something of an annual ritual; but this time around, a lot is at stake. The 60th session of the United Nations General Assembly is going…

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WORLD AFFAIRS: Behind Washington’s nuclear deal with India

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Washington values India as a strategic partner and wants it to become a world power, writes Dr Sharif Shuja. The United States has struck a historic deal with India under which India will be permitted to acquire civilian nuclear technology internationally while retaining its nuclear arms. Though India will remain outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), US officials say that the bilateral accord, concluded by US President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on July 19, will “bring India close to treaty standards”. The agreement, if approved by the US Congress, would mark a historical turning point as…

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