Last week, ONE’s team on the ground in Bali continued to lobby the members of the High Level Panel (HLP) on our Open for Development petition and the preliminary results of the You Choose campaign from Malawi, South Africa and Zambia.
This week, the presidents of the world’s leading emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (known collectively as the BRICS) – are meeting in Durban for the annual BRICS summit. The “Africanized Agenda” for this year’s summit, where the BRICS’ cooperation with Africa is under the spotlight, means that investment in extractive industries is a high priority on the agenda. And extraction of Africa’s oil, minerals and gas is where the national interests of each of the BRICS nations and those of African governments converge.
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Is South Africa closer to the dream of becoming a Rainbow Nation 18 years post apartheid? “The Day of Reconciliation” is a public holiday in South Africa held annually on December 16. The holiday came into effect in 1994 after the end of apartheid, with the intention of fostering reconciliation and national unity. It is
Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to meet our partners at ONE to learn more about ONE and share stories about the power of using one’s voice – and one’s wrist – in support of poverty relief, fighting curable diseases and recognizing the rights of all people to a better life. I left feeling that we need to get more ONE bracelets onto more arms, not only to show unity with ONE’s fight against extreme poverty, but also in recognition of the power of connection.
Every time I travel abroad, I find myself thinking, “you should know by now there’s only so much you can learn about global health from behind a desk.” This held true as recently as last week, when I had the privilege of helping staff a Congressional Delegation (CODEL) trip to South Africa.
Samantha Thornton details one woman’s personal struggle that effectively saved a community. This piece was originally posted at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and is part of a larger project, “South Africa’s Healthcare Crisis in the Eastern Cape“. In the Eastern Cape of South Africa, Grahamstown, home to Rhodes University, is a city rich in academic
While volunteering at the recent International AIDS Conference in Washington DC, I had the opportunity to talk with Stephanie Nolen, a foreign correspondent for The Globe and Mail in Canada and author of “28 Stories of AIDS in Africa,” about her most recent project, the Museum of AIDS in Africa. The Museum is currently an
Nicole Zamostny is a student at Virginia Commonwealth University. She was selected from more than 1,500 students for the Chegg for Good and ONE internship. Nicole just returned from the intern trip to South Africa and Zambia. Stay tuned to the ONE Blog for more updates from the trip participants! Finding the words to accurately
I am so excited to share with you today the work of one of your fellow ONE members, Ahtziri Gonzalez. Ahtziri is a 22-year-old photographer from Mexico City who — according to her blog — “travels… parties… writes… lives,” and above all, takes some beautiful photography. She emailed me 10 of her best photos from
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