Sunday, September 5, 2010
Now that U.S. "combat" missions in Iraq are ended, let's focus on the important mission to conquer AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
We have an effective mechanism in the global fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria, which supports performance-based programs chosen by the countries, and where other donor countries match U.S. contributions two for one.
President Obama should pledge a three-year, $2 billion/year commitment to the Global Fund at the MDG summit this month, enabling the fund to provide testing and medicines, reduce AIDS transmission, minimize drug-resistant TB and save millions of lives. It also can virtually end malaria as a public health threat in many countries and provide universal access to treatment for TB.
Bob Alders
Mountain View
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