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Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV – During a recent international conference in Vienna for 20,000 AIDS scientists, health workers and activists, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Microsoft founder Bill Gates urged AIDS activists to try to generate the most value achievable out of funds set aside for HIV/AIDS prevention services and treatments, which includes securing access to drugs. Reuters Health and Science Correspondent Kate Kelland highlighted the leaders’ remarks in a recent write-up:

“The world is awash in troubles. It is easy to rail at a government and say … give us more money. But we also have to change the way we do what we do,” Clinton told the conference. “If we’re going to make this case, they (donor governments) have to think that we are doing our job faster, much better and less expensive. Then we have the moral standing to go ask folks to give us a lot more dollars.”

Gates, a philanthropist whose Gates Foundation spends a big portion of its billion fund on fighting AIDS, said efficiency was essential to be able to scale up access to AIDS drugs for the 15 million individuals who will need them, “We can’t maintain spending AIDS resources in precisely the exact same way we do right now,” he said. “As we … advocate for more funding, we also will need to make certain we’re obtaining the most benefit from each dollar of AIDS funding and each and every ounce of effort.”

In keeping with this message, Global Health Progress’ recent 3rd Annual African Health Delegation let African officials share experiences, expertise and insights about how they efficiently employ obtainable resources when battling diseases in Africa. These conferences are just 1 way GHP helps advocacy groups meet Clinton and Gates’ plea for activists to employ “efficiency saving” tactics when delivering treatments and securing access to drugs for countries “hardest hit and at highest risk” by HIV/AIDs and other diseases.

For example, in the course of GHP’s 3rd Annual African Health Delegation, Dr. Robert Einterz, Associate Dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine, described the 20-year-old Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) partnership in Kenya between the Schools of Medicine at Indiana University and Moi University. What started as a joint effort to develop leaders in health care for both the US and Kenya has grown to present treatment and prevention for HIV/AIDS, testing for HIV and tuberculosis, access to drugs, distribution of bed nets to prevent malaria, food and income security programs and care for orphans and vulnerable youngsters.

Also at the Delegation, Mr. Kris Natarajan, Director, Global Partnerships at Merck, outlined a number of
partnerships the company has in Africa, which includes the African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAPS), which is a collaboration between Merck, the Government of Botswana and the Bill &amp Melinda Gates Foundation.

GHP continues to advocate for efficient and effective tactics for HIV/AIDs prevention and treatments via supporting productive public and private partnerships as well as determining news ways to secure additional resources, including dependable access to drugs.

About Global Health Progress:
Global Health Progress offers a platform for firms, governments, public health leaders, universities, foundations, and other stakeholders to share experiences and greatest practices and to forge new partnerships. Global Health Progress also supports efforts to raise awareness and mobilize resources to address health challenges in the developing world by bringing local leaders together with international health experts, policymakers, donor governments, and the private sector.

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Source:
http://www.1888pressrelease.com/global-health-progress-epitomizes-clinton-gates-call-for-pr-229207.html