Global Health — The Gates–Buffett Effect

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Standing before a giant AIDS ribbon, Bill and Melinda Gates greeted some 26,000 researchers and public health workers on the opening night of last month's conference hosted by the International AIDS Society in Toronto. Bill Gates's voice echoed through the stadium as he assured the conference delegates, “Melinda and I have made stopping AIDS the top priority of our foundation.” The Gateses spoke in turn, revealing both their passion and their clear-eyed intellectual engagement. Bill Gates talked of the new optimism he senses in Africa with the increased availability of antiretroviral drugs, but he warned that without increased prevention efforts, the provision of long-term treatment for infected persons is “simply unsustainable.” Melinda Gates spoke of the stigmas that limit efforts to control AIDS, noting that government officials in many countries refuse to accompany them when they meet with sex workers. The philanthropists promised to increase their foundation's funding for research on new prevention tools for women and called for expanded access to proven measures such as condoms, clean needles, and HIV testing. The demonstrators who had heckled previous speakers were silent; the Gateses were interrupted only by cheers.

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