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Bill Gates says much more work needed to turn tide of AIDS
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates attends the Allen & Co Media Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho July 12, 2012.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Philanthropist and AIDS prevention advocate Bill Gates said on Monday there had been significant advances in the fight against HIV/AIDS, but he was not ready to say the world was "turning the tide" on the disease, the theme of this week's International AIDS Conference.
Gates said the trajectory of the disease had certainly improved, noting figures the United Nations released last week showing global AIDS deaths last year fell to 1.7 million, down from 1.8 million in 2010.
But that still means far too many people are dying from AIDS, the multibillionaire co-founder of Microsoft Corp told Reuters in an interview at his offices in Washington, the host city of this year's AIDS conference.
"Is the end clearly in sight? No. Do we have the tools that will bring about the end? No," said Gates.
He said wealthy nations, which have been the primary engine for funding the research and the delivery of life-saving drugs to 8 million poor people, faced financial challenges that threatened AIDS funding.
If anything, now is the time to make sure AIDS remains a funding priority "despite the toughness that is out there," he said.
According to the U.N. report, funding for HIV prevention and treatment totaled $16.8 billion last year, with $8.2 billion coming from wealthy international sources, including the United States, which donated nearly half of it.
But poor and middle-income countries are shouldering more of the HIV burden, spending $8.6 billion last year, surpassing the contributions of affluent donor nations for the first time.
So far, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has handed out $2.5 billion in HIV grants, and committed a further $1.4 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
The biggest chunk of the foundation's HIV spending is on an HIV vaccine, one of the tools Gates sees as essential to ending the AIDS epidemic.
Gates, who met with vaccine experts on Monday, said they were making "really good progress," but they still needed to come up with a good vaccine candidate and then test it in a series of clinical trials.
"There is a very good chance it will be a decade plus before we'll have the thing," he said.
(Reporting by Julie Steenhuysen; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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The World Health Organization (WHO) according to scientists’, doctors and researchers was involved in the intentional spread of the AIDS Virus. According to Dr. John Seale, Member of the Royal College of Medicine, London, AIDS was created in U.S. Labs. So the U.S. should actually commit to telling the Truth About AIDS and why doctors, scientists and medical researchers are saying Western Governments created it and intentionally spread it during global medical injections of men, women, children and babies.
In the Monday May 11, 1987 London Times article, Science Editor Pearce Write’s headlines were, “Smallpox Vaccine “Triggered AIDS Virus” and the WHO was giving the medical injections.
Dr. William Campbell Douglas, M.D., wrote a paper titled, “WHO Murdered Africa” and suggested WHO was not a question, but the World Health Organization was responsible for AIDS in Africa.
Robert B. Strecker M.D, PhD and his brother, Attorney Theodore Strecker, presented the documented facts on the Request, Production and Distribution AIDS and presented WHO documents suggesting their possible involvement in the intentional spread of AIDS in Africa, in a DVD titled, “The Strecker Memorandum” and a document complete with references presented to every U.S. Government Agency titled, “This Is A Bio-Attack Alert, dated March 28, 1986.
Additional scientific evidence of the creation and intentional spread of AIDs was given by Dr. John Seale, a member of the Royal College of Medicine in London and an in depth description of Dr. Seale’s documented evidence on the creation of AIDS was written by Dr. Gary L. Glum in a book titled, “Full Disclosure”.
Science has proven over a century ago, drugs and vaccines, even aspirin, is harmful to the human body. All known Cancer cures and other diseases have been suppressed for over a hundred years.
It should also be noted, the natural remedies which have been proven by science to be effective against AIDS are suppressed, because the Herbs and Raw Diets cost pennies on the dollar and cannot be patented by drug companies. Read Olive Leaf Extract, by Morton Walker and The Persecution and Trial of Gaston Naessens.
John
Ref:
1. Politics in Healing: The Suppression and Manipulation of American Medicine by Daniel Haley
2. The Persecution and trial of Gaston Naessens: The True Story of The Efforts to Suppress an Alternative Treatment for Cancer, AIDS and Other Immunologically Based Diseases, by Christopher Bird.
3. DVD, The Strecker Memorandum, Robert B. Strecker MD, PhD.
4. Olive Leaf Extract, by Morton Walker.
5. Smallpox Vaccine “Triggered AIDS Virus”, Pearce Wright, Science Editor, London Times, Monday May 11, 1987
6. WHO Murdered Africa, by William Campbell Douglas, M.D. There is no question mark after the title of this article because the title is not a question.
7. DVD, VACCINES, What CDC Documents and Science Reveal, by Dr. Sherri J. Tenpenny
8. This Is A Bio-Attack Alert, by Robert B Strecker MD, PhD, Attorney Theodore A Strecker, written March 28, 1986 and submitted to every U.S. Government Agency.
9. “Full Disclosure”, by Dr. Gary L Glum (The documented research of Dr. John Seale on the creation and intentional spread of AIDS)
10. Journal of The Royal Society of Medicine, Sept. 1988, (Vol 81, pp537-539)
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