Bono Calls Africa AIDS, Poverty a Crisis
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Rock star Bono called Wednesday on Europe and the United States to do more to tackle the scourge of AIDS and poverty in Africa and said the continent was "bursting into flames."
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Bono said Saturday that Africa must keep working to stop malaria, which kills more than 1 million people a year &amp;#151; many of them young children on the continent.
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The head of the UN AIDS program says HIV epidemics in some of the world&#39;s most populous countries are close to a turning point.
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Accepting the Liberty Medal for his humanitarian work in Africa, Bono exhorted Americans to keep working to solve the world's problems and spoke of those who are without freedom.
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The Asia-Pacific region risks an &quot;AIDS crisis similar in scale to Africa&#39;s&quot; unless national governments and regional institutions &quot;step up&quot; efforts to fight HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director Kathleen Cravero said on Wednesday in Manila
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Former South African President Nelson Mandela, surrounded by rock stars, launched a book of photographs of a major anti-AIDS concert on Thursday with a call to ordinary people to take a lead in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
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Nelson Mandela on Thursday compared widespread poverty in developing countries to man-made evils such as slavery and apartheid, and urged wealthy nations to do more to fight it.
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Irish rocker and activist Bono, accepting the Liberty Medal on Thursday night for his humanitarian work in Africa, exhorted Americans to keep working to solve the world's problems and spoke of those who are without freedom.
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The Blood Diamond star talks about filming in Africa, why Bono is his hero and what his Oscar date won't be wearing
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TONY EASTLEY: On World AIDS Day one international charity says people in the poorest countries are being left to die from HIV because governments and corporations simply aren&#39;t providing basic treatment options readily available in western countries.
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Irish rock star Bob Geldof ( news ) has acknowledged that solutions to Africa's poverty, disease and conflict elude a commission set up by British Prime Minister Tony Blair ( news - web sites ) to craft ways of ...
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The African Union called on the  international community to take tougher action in Ivory Coast  and Congo, two of the continent's biggest crises that risk  destabilizing their wider regions.
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JOHANNESBURG Say &quot;Africa&quot; and what comes to mind? The genocide in Darfur, Sudan, or the HIV-AIDS epidemic affecting some 30 million Africans, or the violence in the Ivory Coast, a country once considered an oasis of calm on a calamity-stricken continent?
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Rock star activist Bono led attacks on the Group of Eight&#39;s 60-billion dollar pledge to fight killer diseases Friday, accusing world powers of using &quot;bureau-babble&quot; to hide their failure to help Africa.
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The lead singer of the band U2 brought his fight against AIDS and poverty to town. Bono and his wife, Ali Hewson, visited the downtown Nordstrom store Saturday to promote a designer T-shirt that will raise money to pay for AIDS medication and medical care in Africa.
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Rock star Bono urges Labour to "get real" and end world poverty in a speech to the party's conference.
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JOHANNESBURG, 9 December (IRIN) - The HIV/AIDS pandemic has already created millions of orphans throughout sub-Saharan Africa, but the worst is yet to come, warned Per Engebak, UN Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF) regional director for Eastern and Southern Africa.