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Upcoming Events... Annual African Resource Bank Conference, November 11-14, 2007 Franklin Cudjoe, Executive Director of IMANI along with Events Coordinator Evans Selorm Branttie will speak on alcohol policies in Africa at the Annual African Resource Bank Conference in Tanzania. Mr. Cudjoe will discuss the Ghanaian case and will moderate a panel discussion concerning Africa's future involvement with the west. Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged online discussion, Begins November 24, 2007 Ayn Rand, the heroine of unbridled capitalism resonates significantly with the mission and goals of IMANI.Rand’s belief in the central importance of the mind opposes the prevailing wisdom that labor is responsible for prosperity. Working closely with the Ayn Rand Institute and Altas Economic Research Foundation, IMANI will distribute copies of the magnum opus that has been responsible for influencing millions of people. IMANI will host an online discussion forum which will focus on particular chapters of the book. HIV/AIDS Awareness Campaign, December 1, 2007 While poor country governments are ignoring the main barriers to healthcare access, civil society groups have the onerous task of educating citizens on leading responsible life styles to prevent catching diseases they can avoid. Ghana’s HIV prevalence rate is still 2.6%, a modest figure but by no means recipe for complacency. IMANI seizes the opportunity to help corporations to implement some aspect of their corporate social responsibility by head organizing an outdoor event on World Aids Day with a potential attendance of 500-600 youth groups. Speaking slots are being discussed with the Ghana Aids Commission whilst Mobile VCT counseling services, free non-alcoholic drinks and T-shirts bearing IMANI logo as co-sponsors will be distributed to attendees. Prior to the event publicity with State-Owned media houses will be aired. Ghanaian Journalist Media Training Seminar, December 13-14, 2007 The purpose of the 2-day financial training program is to introduce journalists to economics, financial markets and business to equip them with the knowledge and skills to report intelligibly and accurately on those areas for the mass media. The course content and purpose is based on the assumption that every journalist, despite the medium, needs to be economically literate to decipher the world we live in. 45 journalist will be selected within the print and electronic media. The event is being co-sponsored by IMANI and Accra Brewery Limited. The facilitator for the 2-day training is Robert Brand, a senior lecturer and the Pearson Chair of Economics Journalism at the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. Mr. Cudjoe goes to Washington... September 26, 2007--Upon the recommendation of International Policy Network (IPN), IMANI was invited to PhRMA’s monthly briefing in Washington. With India, Thailand and in particular Brazil leading the patent-busting campaign of western medicines the time had come to expose the fallacy in the PhRMA argument that gives rise to the populist and economically depressing way of ensuring access to essential medicines. Patents on medicines are not the real barriers to access to medicines in the developing world. Rather, weak health infrastructure, corruption, price controls, high taxes and tariffs even on freely donated medicines are the main restrictions. Instead of urging poor countries to break patents of heavily invested medicines, differential pricing in various markets being used by pharmaceutical companies would solve the problem. Merck provides its antiretroviral STOCRIN to Americans at $12 a day, to Brazil, whose HIV infection rate is 0.5%, (lower than the US of 0.6% ) at $1.20 a day and to Africa at $0.6 per day. Mindful however, that it takes up to 20 years and 40% of investment in Research & Development to produce some drugs. Who bears the brunt when the medicine trial fails? IMANI director made these points to representatives of patient groups at the monthly briefing. Other Panellists were Dr. Roger Bate, Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Mrs. Virginia Ladd, President of the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association, Inc. The Facilitator was Dr. Leslie Mancuso President of JHPIEGO, an affiliate of John Hopkins University.
Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist Wednesday, September 26, 2007 Mr. Cudjoe spoke in Washington, D.C. on Grover Norquist Wednesday. This meeting brought together numerous free-market and libertarian think tanks and government officials throughout the D.C. area. Mr. Cudjoe spoke of academic seminars, workshops and forums as an essential and innovative way to overturn the myriads of socialist thinkers which academic institutions are churning out. Mr. Cudjoe suggested that it was one of the winning formulas for Africa to come out of its cold drudgery.
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