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Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 03:00
Categories: 
Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
118 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Just a few days before his visit to Africa, President Bush announced that Randall Tobias, the former chairman and CEO of Eli Lilly Co., will take the new position of "Czar" in charge of U.S. global HIV/AIDS funding. The move to position a drug company executive centrally in global health policymaking is nothing new for this administration, but the openness of this gesture to the industry suggests that there is little shame in reversing the progress of the last several years, particularly in...read more [4]

Just a few days before his visit to Africa, President Bush announced that Randall Tobias, the former chairman and CEO of Eli Lilly Co., will take the new position of "Czar" in charge of U.S. global HIV/AIDS funding. The move to position a drug company executive centrally in global health policymaking is nothing new for this administration, but the openness of this gesture to the industry suggests that there is little shame in reversing the progress of the last several years, particularly in the realm of medicine treatment access, says this commentary on the web site www.zmag.org [5]
Related Link:
* AIDS Appointee Shows That Business Still Rules the Roost
http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2003/0307tobias.html [6]

Category: 
Global South [7]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/hivaids/16143 [8]

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