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Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.
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Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.
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The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month
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Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake.
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I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.
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...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.
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In much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.
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There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.
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We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur
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The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.
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You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
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Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.
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One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.
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Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.
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The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there.
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I think when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line, you might have to set aside some principles.
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Solar power is one of the most hopeful technologies but still produces about 0.01 percent of U.S. electricity. The U.S. allocates just $159 million for solar research per year - about what we spend in Iraq every nine hours.
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In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!
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Usually people are very much focused on keeping their kids alive.
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The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding
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