Category Archives: Senegal

Journalists in Senegal Protest with Media Blackout

On June 23 the Le Quotidien newspaper published what it said was a confidential letter written by that country’s finance minister to its president. In the letter, the finance minister briefs the president on the status of an investigation into corruption by current and former members of the government.

Senegal did what any self-respecting government would […]

Do Africans Follow Anti-HIV Drug Regimen Better Than Americans?

One of the long-standing arguments against the use of anti-retrovirals to treat the AIDS crisis in Africa goes like this: African countries like the health infrastructure to ensure that patients will consistently take anti-HIV drugs (which, of course, have a number of side effects). This will create a situation, the theory goes, where few patients […]