Information about the AIDS crisis in Africa:

Thanks to a recent extraordinary rise in public and private giving, today more money is being directed toward the world's poor and sick than ever before. But unless these efforts start tackling public health in general instead of narrow, disease-specific problems -- and unless the brain drain from the developing world can be stopped -- poor countries could be pushed even further into trouble, in yet another tale of well-intended foreign meddling gone awry.

 Laurie Garrett is Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health