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Web Sites:

http://www.alertnet.org/aboutus/
http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/
countryprofiles/152501.htm
This Web site provides global news, communications and logistics services to the international disaster relief community and the public. Reuters' 150 years of experience reporting from disaster zones around the world allows AlertNet to give disaster relief organizations reliable information, fast.

http://www.preventconflict.org/portal/economics/portalhome.php
The Web site for Conflict Prevention Initiative (CPI) is an online project of the Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research. CPI gives policymakers and practitioners easy access via online portals to information on human security and conflict prevention. The CPI portals address critical issues related to human insecurity and the effects of conflict on populations and alert policymakers to relevant academic materials as well as news, maps and the most up-to-date research.

http://www.icspress.com/
This is Web site for The Institute for Contemporary Studies which has available online the publication Conflict Prevention and U.S. Foreign Assistance: A Framework for the 21st Century, Chapter Two, Defining Conflict. A good source for a discussion on "defining conflict."

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week605/cover.html
This Web site allows you to access video clips from the PBS program Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. The particular segment most relevant to this lesson is The US and Aids. This particular clip focuses on the United States and its economic position dealing with the international HIV/AIDS crisis and epidemic.

http://www.africaguide.com/popups/mailpop.htm
Map of Africa

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/CIA_Maps/Angola_19838.gif
Map of Angola

http://www.aegis.com/default.asp?req=http://www.aegis.com/news/ads/2002/AD022283.html
http://www.aegis.com/news/ads/2002/AD022283.html
This Web site is for the AIDS Education Global Information System (AEGiS), which has a keyword-searchable knowledge base. AEGiS offers cutting edge information via HIV/AIDS-specific publications and news sources from around the world. In addition, an array of reference materials is offered. As new aspects of HIV/AIDS arise, AEGiS continues to extend its efforts towards the dissemination of potentially life saving information. One particular article to have your students reference is entitled AIDS Imperiling African Armies, Key to Stability of Many Nations.

http://www.thebody.com/index.shtml
http://www.thebody.com/cdc/news_updates_archive/
nov25_02/aids_african_armies.html
This Web site is for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's division that focuses on HIV and AIDS; The Body: an Aids and HIV Information Resource. The article in particular to look for is entitled: AIDS Imperiling African Armies, Key to Stability of Many Nations

http://www.who.int/en/
http://www.who.int/country/usa/en/
This is the Web site for The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations specialized agency for health. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

http://www.imf.org/
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2003/01/pdf/chapter1.pdf
This is the Web site for The International Monetary Fund, an international organization of 184 member countries. It was established to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange arrangements; to foster economic growth and high levels of employment; and to provide temporary financial assistance to countries to help ease balance of payments adjustment.

http://www.unaids.org/
Web site for the UNAIDS which includes a fact Sheet on AIDS - Worldwide.

http://www.who.int/director-general/
speeches/1999/english/19991206_new_york.html
This site hosts an article by Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, the Director-General for the World Health Organization, entitled "Why Investing in Global Health is Good Politics."

http://www.worldbank.org/tenthings/2ndedition/two2.htm
Web site for the World Bank. Ten Things You Never Knew About the World Bank. Information about HIV and AIDS.

http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/avi/3.html
Web site article entitled Attitudes Toward U.S. Foreign Assistance: Perception and Reality. The article focuses on World Health and economics.