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AIDS Debate Poses Tough Funding Questions to Top Thinkers
The question was on the pros and cons of HIV/AIDS funding and the tools were sharp insights and passionate views as some of the most influential figures in the fight against AIDS and poverty participated in a lively debate before a packed World Bank auditorium July 23.
The webcast event, co-hosted by the Bank, U.S. Agency for International Development/ U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, and the medical journal The Lancet, asked a panel of experts to weigh global funding for HIV/AIDS in a fiscally strained, post financial crisis environment. The debate was part of the first International AIDS Conference to be held in Washington in 22 years.
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- The World Region
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- UNAIDS
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- Roger England
- Richard Horton
- Rajiv Shah
- PEPFAR
- Michel Sidibé
- Mead Over
- Makere University Medical School
- Lancet
- Jim Yong Kim
- Jeffrey Sachs
- HIV
- health systems
- financial crisis
- Festus Mogae
- Eric Goosby
- Earth Institute
- David Serwadda
- Columbia University
- Center for Global Development
- Botswana
- AIDS