29029: Minsky: (news excerpt) NYTimes Clinton Makes Up For Lost Time in Battling Aids (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Tequila Minsky <tminsky@ix.netcom.com>

[Within the extensive article-- Clinton Makes Up For Lost Time in
Battling Aids, NYTimes, April 29]

The Clinton foundation’s budget last year was $30 million, raised from
private donors. Mr. Clinton, who oversees its operations full time, has
plunged into many causes, from childhood obesity to tsunami relief to
global warming, but he has made his most substantive contribution on
AIDS.

  He said Rwanda was one of the first countries he chose to work in
because “they had a really good chance to dig out of the hole and I
wanted to help them do it.”

For years, he tried to coax Dr. Paul Farmer, known for his work caring
for the poor in remote, rural Haiti, to recreate his model of AIDS
treatment in Africa, the heart of the epidemic.

Last year, Dr. Farmer and the group he co-founded, Partners in Health,
arrived in Rwinkwavu. With support from the Clinton Foundation and
others, he has transformed a dilapidated facility that lacked even a
doctor into a thriving rural hospital.


More than 1,500 people have been put on AIDS medicines here.
Reproducing the pioneering model used in Haiti, Dr. Farmer has
community workers, many of them peasants, deliver antiretroviral
medicines to people with AIDS every day, minimizing reliance on scarce
doctors and nurses.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/29/health/29clinton.html?
ex=1157515200&en=a6bb47331f41ee48&ei=5070&emc=eta1