She said that the issue of AIDS requires "world solidarity" and must not be left to the governments of the stricken countries.
Panelists also questioned whether Western intervention represents a cultural imposition on other countries.
"Africa's post-independence history bristles with such tremendous human rights violations that it is easy to forget its long record of heroic struggle for those rights," said Kwesi Botchwey, director of Africa research and programs.
Botchwey said Westerners who criticize Africa's lack of progress on human rights do not understand that these violations are the result of to extreme poverty.
"Human rights is at bottom a matter of poverty eradication," he said. "The focus should be a balance between the political and economical."
Botchwey said that the West has treated Africa inequitably compared to European nations.
"Africa needs help from its international allies," he said, "but they need to implement the same policies, whether they apply to Kosovo or Sierra Leone."
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