Clinton Foundation, U.N. Join Forces

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CLINTON_UN_AIDS?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT ^ | 5/7/04 | DAVID HAMMER

[Maria S]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Bill Clinton's nonprofit foundation signed an agreement Friday with the United Nations to help deliver food to AIDS patients in poor countries wracked by the pandemic.

The Boston-based Clinton HIV-AIDS Initiative already sends doctors, medicine and equipment to 18 developing nations in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Last week it reached an agreement with China to provide services.

The agreement with the World Food Program combines the Clinton Foundation's access to treatment with the U.N.'s food-distribution system. Officials from both groups say their partnership will expand care for AIDS victims already receiving anti-retroviral drugs from the Clinton Foundation and its partners.

Even if AIDS victims in Africa are able to take the drugs to strengthen their immune systems and extend their lives, they are often still too weak to feed themselves or their families, former President Clinton said in a statement released Friday.

"One of the key challenges we face in tackling the HIV-AIDS crisis is that if a patient is malnourished, the (anti-retroviral drugs) often do not take full effect," Clinton said.

More than 40 million people are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and more than 3 million died in 2003, according to the U.N.

The World Health Organization estimates more than 5 million HIV patients need anti-retroviral drugs, but fewer than 400,000 have access to them.

[Maria S]

What a guy! What a terrific humanitarian!

[darkwing104]

What a guy! What a terrific humanitarian!

Yea! Right

[Peach]

Great. We have two criminal foundations that can do untold damage around the world. Sort of like a realigning of mob families.

[kedd]

Do you think Clinton and the UN will make as much money on this deal as others made on the oil for food program?

[anniegetyourgun]

There must be something in it for both parties. I'll never believe that either Clinton has a compassionate or generous bone in their bodies.

[cajungirl]

Interesting that we have the same take. I think it is part of Clinton's plan to take over the world.

[BabsC]

Her in the White House and him in the UN. SCARRY!!

[philman_36]

You don't think he's doing this with "their" money do you?
Ireland, Clinton Foundation Sign $158.2 Million Agreement To Provide AIDS Drugs to Mozambique
Jul 09, 2003
Clinton Foundation Secures AIDS Drug Price Cuts, Develops Treatment Plans in Africa, Caribbean Oct 23, 2003
Funding
To pay for the cost of the drugs and for the improvements to the health systems in the developing nations, Clinton personally lobbied private donors and leaders of wealthy nations to secure funding for the initiative, according to the Journal. Ireland has committed $58.3 million over five years -- primarily for Mozambique's program. According to a senior Canadian government official, Canada has pledged "tens of millions" of dollars to the plan, but the details are still being finalized, the Journal reports. "Usually I just call the prime minister or the president and tell them what we're doing and ask them to have somebody look at it. And I always tell them that even though we're friends they don't have to do this for me -- don't do it unless they think it's a good thing. But I think it's the best thing going in the world in AIDS care," Clinton said.
Clinton Program Would Help Poor Nations Get AIDS Drugs
The agreement also establishes a way of working that is rare in the secretive pharmaceutical industry. The companies involved -- Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd., Cipla Ltd. and Matrix Laboratories Ltd., all of India, and the South African company Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd. -- opened their books and manufacturing processes to a group of Clinton business advisers. Then the advisers and the companies hunted for ways to cut costs, starting with raw-material suppliers in China and ending with the products' packaging. Mr. Clinton's team plans to use this approach to try to lower the price of diagnostic tests, which are still very expensive.
Clinton Foundation to aid China with AIDS 2004-04-29

What a international man of the world...Clinton Presidential Center

[Condor51]

This deal r-e-e-k-s!
It has corruption, money laundering, skimming & RICO written all over it.

[Unicorn]

You can bet your buns there is something in it for bill clinton.

[airborne]

Yep. He's laying the groundwork for his next job. Secretary General of the UN.

[Maria S]

"Engineered by longtime Clinton adviser Ira Magaziner, the agreement will cut the price of a commonly used triple-drug regimen by almost a third..."

Someone please refresh my memory about Ira Magaziner.

[Maria S]

"Ireland has committed $58.3 million over five years -- primarily for Mozambique's program."


How in the world did Clinton get Ireland to commit to $58 million for an AIDS program for Mozambique!?! How does Teresa Heinz Kerry, who is from Mozambique, figure into all of this? Is some of her moola going to Hillary's war chest in return for Slick's AIDS effort in Mozambique?

[RoseofTexas]

"Yep. He's laying the groundwork for his next job. Secretary General of the UN."

As I live and breath, I tell you bubba and Hitlery, aka the VOMIT COUPLE FROM HELL, are the Antichrist tools! They're paving the way for their god Satan!

[Askel5]

=== AIDS victims already receiving anti-retroviral drugs from the Clinton Foundation


The Energizer Bunny of depopulation.

[DumpsterDiver]

I can't remeber who posted it, but they said that the Secretary General of the UN can't be from a country that is a permanent member of the UN Security Council. I hope that's correct because that leaves ol' Bubba Bill out in the cold.

[mombonn]

LOL - what you all said! The first thing that came to my mind was an AIDS for Food scandal that will dwarf the OIL for Food mess.

[mombonn]

Oh, let's not forget this is his latest bid for the Pulitzer Peace prize.

[philman_36]

Someone please refresh my memory about Ira Magaziner.
A nice refresher...Ira Magaziner
Executive Branch, Not Just Ira Magaziner, Is Found 'Dishonest'
And moving forward a little in time...Ira Magaziner
Ira Magaziner is Senior Policy Advisor to President Clinton and the leading U.S. spokesman for Internet policy.

Just a little something, something to wet your mental whistle.

[philman_36]

Good questions. I've no answers at this time.