Aid and AIDS Gambling with lives

摘要

Rich countries, poor ones, the United Nations, drug companies and non-governmental organisations say they are ready. We can clobber the diseases that kill millions of people each year, says Kofi Annan, the un's secretary-general. An independent global fund to pay for additional efforts against aids, malaria and tuberculosis is well within the means of donors. And though no one has a "magic bullet", good health programmes exist in some poor countries which, if copied, would spread success. But where's the money?