Race against time [2nd ed.] : searching for hope in AIDS-ravaged Africa

Lewis, Stephen 1937- (Author).

Summary: Lewis recounts how, in 2000, the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York introduced eight Millennium Development Goals, which focused on fundamental issues such as education, health, and cutting poverty in half by 2015. In audacious prose, alive with anecdotes ranging from maddening to hilarious to heartbreaking, Lewis shows why and how the international community is falling desperately short of these goals.

Record details

ISBN: 9780887847530 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0887847536 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xvi, 214 p. ; 21 cm.
Edition: 2nd ed
Publisher: Toronto : House of Anansi Press, 2006.

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Preface -- Acknowledgements - I. Context: it shames and diminishes us all - II. Pandemic: my country is on its knees - III. Education: an avalanche of studies, little studying - IV. Women: half the world, barely represented - V. Solutions: a gallery of alternatives in good faith -- Afterword -- Glossary.