Clinton Plan to Provide AIDS Drugs to Poor Countri

[rac6]

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: October 23, 2003



Former President Bill Clinton has secured a deal with four generic-drug companies to provide low-cost AIDS drugs in the developing world, an aide to the former president said Thursday.

The agreement, which was to be announced at a news conference later Thursday, will cut the price of a triple-drug regimen to about 38 cents a day.

<http://nytimes.com/2003/10/23/international/africa/23WEB-AIDS.html?hp>

That would be less than 6 billion for about 40 million HIV infected people per year (around the global estimate).

[dennis4868]

1. At Least....

there is a President out there getting something done!

[MaineDem]

3. My thought exactly!

And a President who isn't afraid to get out among people; who isn't jeered everywhere he goes.

Wouldn't it be nice...

[RandomKoolzip]

2. Isn't the whole two-term law about CONSECUTIVE presidencies?

Can we get this guy back in office somehow? Please? If only Bush had a compassionate bone in his body....

[Lindacooks]

4. Please rate this article at Yahoo

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/us_health_aids_clinton

[underpants]

6. As you said before NOW THAT's A PRESIDENT!

I was going to post this in LBN but wanted to see if you had.

Oh and Welcome to DU if'n I haven't before :hi:

[Spazito]

5. This is wonderful news!

To go to the generic drug companies was very smart. It by-passes the big pharmacuticals and cuts them out. Way to go Mr. President!

[Kat45]

7. I think it's great! But I'm wondering how the repukes will spin it

to criticize Clinton. Will they say it's none of his business because he's not the president anymore? Or perhaps he's interfering with bush's plan to help these people? Or....what else will they come up with?

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

10. Pat Robertson will accuse him of

tampering with God's will by allowing heathens to be given the same protection as True Christians from the cleansing Angel of Death that is the glorious HIV.

[Kat45]

14. My mother, who can't stand Clinton, had this to say:

How much money is he making off of this?

Do you believe this?!! And she's not even a professional repuke!

[underpants]

17. Repubes can't imagine you could do anything for any other reason

Not your mother mind you just Repubes in general. They don't seem able to understand just doing something because it's the right thing to do..........and it shows.

[Catherine Vincent]

8. Good deal!

Thank God for Bill Clinton!

[Malva Zebrina]

9. wonderful--brightens up my day

to think there is and are some people who do care about others in the human race. Clinton has got to be the most skilled organizer, the most effective deal maker, ever, and he has put his talent and skills into to use to benefit mankind----Bush and his crew will be very jealous when they see Clinton taking the stage on this--wonder what the little boy adolescent president will have to say--look for some wise crack or some hurtful comment--or some oblique insult. Clinton is incredible

[MasonJar]

11. e-mail it

This article deserves to be e-mailed to all your friends. It hasn't made the big list yet so let's get cracking.

[Parche]

12. he does

More as an ex president than the current president does
while he is acting president

[htuttle]

13. I hope he decides to compete with Carter on that score

The world could use a rivalry like that!

[IndianaGreen]

15. BBC: Clinton brokers landmark Aids deal

Last Updated: Thursday, 23 October, 2003, 23:16 GMT 00:16 UK
Clinton brokers landmark Aids deal

Aids campaigners have welcomed Mr Clinton's initiative as an important step forward.

"Providing Aids treatment to those who most urgently need it in poor countries is the most urgent health challenge the world faces," said Dr Lee Jong-Wook, director of the World Health Organization.

Irish rock star Bono, a leading Aids activist, said the deal "marks a crucial breakthrough in the Aids emergency, showing that we can, and must, wage a successful war against this preventative and treatable disease".

The Clinton foundation raised money from wealthy countries, including Ireland and Canada, to help pay for the drugs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3209741.stm

[sujan]

16. Talk the talk, walk the walk

I like that.

[slappypan]

18. the difference

This is just one beautiful example of the difference between how Republican and Democratic office-holders view service to their country and the whole world; just compare the behavior of fromer Presidents. Clinton and Carter work to spread peace and help humanity — the others play golf, eat, money-grub, and waste food and oxygen.

[newyawker99]

19. Hi rac6!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: