I don’t see the cavalry riding to the rescue

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I don’t see the cavalry riding to the rescueI don’t see the cavalry riding to the rescueAs he tours world capitals seeking donations, Dr. Michel#x D. Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria,Shower gelsaid he had become “hugely frustrated.”

“The consistent answer I hear is: ‘We love you, we hear you, we acknowledge the fund’s good results, but our budget is tight, our budget is cut, it’s the economic crisis.’ ”

No commander in the global fight openly concedes that the war is over, but all admit to deep pessimism.

“I don’t see the cavalry riding to the rescue,” said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, an AIDS researcher who leads one of the National Institutes of Health.

“I’m worried we’ll be in a ‘Kampala situation’ in other countries soon,”Shower gelsaid Ambassador Eric Goosby, the Obama administration’s new global AIDS coordinator.

“What I see is making me very scared,” agreed Michel Sidibé, executive director of Unaids. Without a change of heart among donors, Mr. Sidibé said, “the whole hope I’ve had for the last 10 years will disappear.”

Donors give about $10 billion a year, while controlling the epidemic would cost $27 billion a year, he estimated.

His predecessor, Dr. Peter Piot, said he had seen optimism soar and then fade.

Hopes rose from 2001 to 2003 when cheap generic antiretroviral drugs became available,翻译公司, Secretary General Kofi Annan of the United Nations formed the Global Fund and President George W. Bush initiated the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or Pepfar.

“Then, we were at a tipping point in the rightShower geldirection,” Dr. Piot#x said. “Now I’m afraid we’re at a tipping point in the wrong direction.”
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