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Posted on 01/12/2006 6:08:54 PM PST by wagglebee
Former President Bill Clinton announced Thursday that his foundation has negotiated agreements to lower the price of rapid HIV tests and anti-AIDS drugs in the developing world.
Under the agreement, four companies will offer the tests for 49 cents to 65 cents each, cutting the cost of a diagnosis in half. Four more companies will provide the antiretroviral drugs efavirenz and abacavir at a price about 30 percent less than the current market rate.
"Too many people die because they can't afford or don't have access to the drugs," Clinton said at his office in Harlem. "This agreement will save hundreds of thousands of lives."
The products and prices will be available to the Clinton Foundation's procurement consortium, which includes 50 developing countries on several continents.
The Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative, founded in 2002, provides technical, logistical and financial assistance to poorer countries struggling with the epidemic.
This is just not right. He should pay just as much for his drugs as the other guy...
This could be the "next step" the world's most famous sexual predator working on cheaper HIV/AIDS treatment.
Actually it seems he is becoming a drug dealer.
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He talked a hooker into having unprotected sex with him?
What's his next cut? The Nobel Piece Prize, of course, for becoming "The New Albert Schweitzer of the Dark Continent".
What's his next cut? How about "His Most Humane Highness, Secretary General of the United Nations"?
Death by a thousand cuts for us.
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Sounds like a plan to me.
Yeah of course BJ is a big freaking hero and the people who developed these evil drugs are selfish capitalists.
Wonder if he has aids ... and why he feels the need to get involved. He's such a self person ... unless he can benefit or perhaps his wife want to use him for some publicity? Hillary is NOT a peoples person. Bill charms the stupid. One thing is for sure, neither care about anyone else but themselves. They disgust me.
Too bad malaria will later likely wipe them out, thanks to the enviro-freaks who refuse to let DDT into the continent.
NEW YORK, June 17 – For the second day in a row, AIDS activists disrupted Vice President Gore's presidential campaign tour today, protesting his behind-the-scenes role in a trade dispute over the cost of drugs in South Africa.
At two campaign stops today and one yesterday, Gore raised his voice and fired back at demonstrators as they chanted "Gore's greed kills." In one brief but tense exchange in New Hampshire, the protesters stood yelling just a few feet from Gore before being escorted out by police.
Health and AIDS activists accuse Gore of favoring drugmakers' profits over the lives of millions of South Africans infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes AIDS. They say Gore, in talks with South African President Thabo Mbeki, has threatened trade sanctions if South Africa permits the widespread sale of cheaper, generic drugs that would cut into U.S. companies' sales.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/gore061899.htm
Evening W,
I presume klintoon thinks the sheeple have forgotten the "Arkincide Prison Tainted Blood Drive Sale" he promulgated, while governor of arkanstupe.
I wonder how the people in Canada who received some of that blood and later contracted aids feel about his snakeoil sales consulting.
Anything that stinks, corrupt, treasonous,clandestine
and immoral always leads back to the klintoon's.
The POS never does anything unless it benefits his trailer park stank ass.
As I See It,
NSNR-THM
Don't forget these two liars always call in the favors they did for their fellow travelers during the time they were infesting the presidency.
Will it never end?
Who'd the First Felon screw this time?
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