During a recent international conference in Vienna for 20,000 scientists, health workers, and AIDS-related activists, the former US president provided treatments, including ensuring access to medicines. Reuters Health and Science correspondent Kate Kelland highlighted the leaders’ comments in a recent article:
“The world is awash with problems. It’s easy to criticize 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 believe that we’re doing our job faster, better and cheaper. Then we have the moral high ground to ask people to give us more money.”
Gates’ philanthropic organization, the Gates Foundation, spends a large portion of its $34 billion fund fighting AIDS; He said efficiency was vital in order to expand access to AIDS drugs for the 15 million people who need them. “We cannot continue to spend resources for AIDS in exactly the same way that we do today,” he said. “As we … advocate for more funding, we must also make sure we get the most out of every AIDS funding dollar and ounce of effort.”
In keeping with this message, the recent Global Health Progress 3rd Annual African Health Delegation enabled African officials to share experiences, insights and insights on how they efficiently use available resources when fighting disease in Africa. These conferences are just one of the ways that GHP is helping advocacy groups meet the Clinton and Gates call to employ “efficiency-saving” tactics in providing treatment and ensuring access to medicines for “hardest-hit” countries. and at increased risk” from HIV/AIDS and other diseases.
For example, during GHP’s 3rd Annual African Health Delegation, Dr. Robert Einterz, Associate Dean of Indiana University School of Medicine, described the Academic Model Providing Access to Health Care (AMPATH) partnership ) for 20 years in Kenya between the Schools of Medicine at Indiana University and Moi University. What began as a joint effort to develop healthcare leaders for both US income security programs and care for orphaned and vulnerable children.
Also at the Delegation, Mr. Kris Natarajan, Merck’s Director of Global Partnerships, outlined a number of partnerships the company has in Africa, including the African Comprehensive Partnerships on HIV/AIDS (ACHAPS), which is a collaboration between Merck , the Government of Botswana and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
GHP continues to advocate for efficient and effective HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment tactics by supporting successful public-private partnerships and by identifying new ways to secure additional resources, including reliable access to medicines.