Many of the politicians there mainly represent the interest of big business. For instance we found that as AIDS activists in South Africa, that the George Bush regime tends to, will provide AIDS funding to developing countries only if they use brand name drugs produced by multinationals like Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and Boehringer Ingelheim.
In Africa we demand immediate unconditional cancellation of all the illegitimate odious debts which African countries are being forced to pay back to the World Bank and the IMF. The debt's been paid many times over. And there's a direct link between the issues of AIDS and the need for debt cancellation. Because in many African countries that are heavily affected by HIV/AIDS more is being spent on repayment of this odious debt than is spent on AIDS drugs that people need to live. And also prevention programmes that people need to remain uninfected, those that are uninfected.