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Speaking Monday as part of a panel
on improving the efficiency of AIDS funding, Microsoft’s Bill Gates told the
19th International AIDS Conference that treatment alone cannot end the
epidemic.
Gates said more prevention tools and
a vaccine are needed, because no amount of money will be adequate to treat
everyone infected. “It is clear that even if you take the most efficient way of
doing this work - the number of people who will eventually need to be on
treatment, the amount of money we have is not enough to treat those people. The
world will make a decision how much those lives matter. And we are in a period of
incredible uncertainty right now. Just the uncertainty alone creates a certain
instability.” Gates’
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
has committed more than $2.5 billion in HIV-related grants to organizations
around the world, as well as more than $1.4 billion to the Global Fund to Fight
AIDS, TB and Malaria.
The Friends of AIDS Foundation is
dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for HIV positive individuals and
empowering people to make healthy choices to prevent the spread of the HIV
virus. To learn more about The Friends of AIDS Foundation, please visit: http://www.friendsofaids.org.
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