{Disarmed} RE: Gates Foundation gives $287 million for AIDS vaccine - July 19, 2006

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-----Original Message-----From: EOHarm [mailto:EOHarm ]On Behalf Of CregarSent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 7:47 PMEOHarm Subject: {Disarmed} Gates Foundation gives $287 million for AIDS vaccine - July 19, 2006

Let assess...The Bill and Melinda Gates charitable Foundation fronts themoney http://tinyurl.com/hrnt5 Gates Foundation gives $287 million for AIDSvaccine, including $18 million in Boston ... The grants emphasize researchinto vaccines that will attack strains of the virus most common in Africaand South Asia, where the epidemic has imposed a disproportionate burden.Last year alone, HIV killed 2 million adults and children in sub-SaharanAfrica, out of a worldwide total of 2.8 million.http://tinyurl.com/fuvqv Randall Tobias, former Eli Lilly and CompanyChairman, President and CEO was appointed by W. Bush to serve as theUnited State’s Global AIDS Coordinator with the rank of Ambassador and iscurrently the nation's first Director of United States Foreign Assistance,and concurrently, Administrator of the United States Agency forInternational Development (USAID), writes and enforces the policies.http://tinyurl.com/jrqaq's Rumsfeld's Gilead Science produces the overpriced antiretroviralhttp://tinyurl.com/kytjw July 16, 2006 Once-a-day HIV drug cocktail — inone pill — wins FDA approval...The wholesale price of a 30-day supply of thepill will be $1,150.88, the same as Truvada and Sustiva purchasedseparately, Gilead officials say. Atripla is expected to be on sale withinfour days. http://tinyurl.com/dgy6t http://tinyurl.com/bsfdehttp://tinyurl.com/gaqf2 July 16, 2006 Guyana may eventually move in thedirection of making available a one-a-day AIDS pill that combines threedifferent medicines in one tablet, Minister of Health, Dr Ramsammy,said, but at present it would be too costly for the country.The minister was responding to queries from Stabroek News following anannouncement in the US about the first one-a-day AIDS pill that combinesthree current medicines into a single tablet which was approved early lastweek. The pill offers patients a more convenient alternative to the currentmultiple drug cocktails. According to reports out of the US the new drug,Atripla, contains Bristol-Myers Squibb Co's drug Sustiva and Gilead Inc'smedicines Viread and Emtriva....And Pat on's Operation Blessing handles the vaccine andantiretroviral distribution http://tinyurl.com/qbdga ...when President Bushlaunched his “faith-based initiative” in 2001 to funnel federal money toreligious groups, Pat on was skeptical, calling the idea a “Pandora’sbox” and a “narcotic” that would ensnare religious organizations ingovernment red tape...Those misgivings notwithstanding, the federalgovernment has become a major source of money for Operation Blessing,on’s international charity, under the Bush initiative. In two years,the group’s annual revenue from government grants has ballooned from$108,000 to $14.4 million....The organization has received smaller grantsfrom the U.S. Agency for International Development to cover freight costsfor humanitarian relief shipments to Guatemala and Romania. It is also partof a consortium of eight organizations that recently received a USAID grantfor HIV/AIDS treatment, care and prevention in 14 countries, mostly inAfrica. http://tinyurl.com/7e2wfNICE! Start the Vaccinations!

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