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rac6 Donating Member (18 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 01:13 PM
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Clinton Plan to Provide AIDS Drugs to Poor Countri
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).
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dennis4868 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 01:18 PM
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1. At Least....
there is a President out there getting something done!
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MaineDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 02:03 PM
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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...
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 01:20 PM
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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....
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Lindacooks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 03:11 PM
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4. Please rate this article at Yahoo
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/us_health_aids_clinton
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 03:23 PM
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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:
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 03:18 PM
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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!
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 03:36 PM
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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?
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C_eh_N_eh_D_eh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 04:11 PM
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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.
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 08:38 PM
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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!
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 07:37 AM
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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.
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 03:37 PM
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8. Good deal!
Thank God for Bill Clinton!
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Malva Zebrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 03:37 PM
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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
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MasonJar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 05:20 PM
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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.
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 06:21 PM
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12. he does
More as an ex president than the current president does
while he is acting president
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 06:32 PM
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13. I hope he decides to compete with Carter on that score
The world could use a rivalry like that!
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-23-03 11:46 PM
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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
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sujan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 12:42 AM
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16. Talk the talk, walk the walk
I like that.
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slappypan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 12:04 PM
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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.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 01:17 PM
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19. Hi rac6!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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