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The Essence Of Africa's Crisis Is Fundamentally Its Extreme Poverty And Therefore Its Inability To Mobilize Out Of Its Own Resources Even The Barest Of Minimum Resources To Address Any Of The Public Health Crises That Africa Faces.

My Colleagues And I Took A Stand In Our Work Several Years Ago That We Would Not Look For The Magic Bullet, Because There Is None. These Are Just Basic Problems Requiring Basic Work. Nothing Magic About It.

The Time Has Come To End This Charade. The Debts Are Unaffordable. If They Won't Cancel The Debts I Would Suggest Obstruction; You Do It Yourselves. Africa Should Say: 'thank You Very Much But We Need This Money To Meet The Needs Of Children Who Are Dying Right Now So We Will Put The Debt Servicing Payments Into Urgent Social Investment In Health, Education, Drinking Water, Control Of Aids And Other Needs.'

This Is Our Greatest Challenge: Learning To Live In A Crowded And Interconnected World That Is Creating Unprecedented Pressures On Human Society And On The Physical Environment.

We Were Proposing, In A Sense, That The Rest Of The World Be Made Safe For American Ideas, As They Adopted Intellectual Property Rights That Gave Patent Protection To Our Very Innovative Economy.