Bill Clinton warns that Trump’s help reductions could feed 6 million new HIV cases and unveil a $ 40 drug plan to fill the gap

“It would be irresponsible, almost discordant, for us to take off and not to recognize the traumatic increase in political violence that we have seen in our country,” said Clinton about the ball death of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk and the former president of the Minnesota Chamber, Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark. “We are moving away from each other.”

Clinton said he was worried about the dismantling of domestic and foreign assistance programs, “the war against science and public health”, reduces education, trade wars and “risk of losing our freedom of expression”.

“We are trying to do our best to provide a counterweight to many negative things that have taken place in recent months,” said Clinton about the two -day conference, which has moved its format to create working groups to tackle many of the problems it has described.

On Wednesday, the biggest announcement of the conference was a partnership between the Clinton Health Accessive Initiative, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Unitaid and Wits RHI which will provide the HIV prevention drug from Gilead Sciences every year in 120 low -income countries for $ 40 per person each year, from 2027. The Gates Foundation announced a similar agreement with the Indian manufacturer Heters.

Clinton said that this decision was partly in response to foreign assistance reductions from President Donald Trump’s administration, which he said could lead to more than 6 million additional HIV cases and potentially 4 million additional deaths in Africa. In July, the GOP leaders stopped an additional $ 400 million in Pepfar, a program filling HIV / AIDS credited with having saved millions of lives since its creation under the president of the time, George W. Bush.

The president of Points of Light, Neil Bush, said that Pepfar and the way he helped so much in Africa has always been a point of family pride. And although he did not speak to his brother, former president George W. Bush, of the new program announced to the Clinton Global Initiative, Neil Bush said he considered that philanthropy can help fill the gaps.

“It seems that the withdrawal of America from the world has terrible ramifications, in my personal opinion,” he said, adding that points of light hope to increase the aid it provides thanks to its ambitious plan to double the number of volunteers in America over the next 10 years.

ABigail Disney activist and philanthropist urged participants from Clinton’s global initiative to be more aggressive in their donations and encouraged them to support cultural movements instead of programs.

“I don’t care about where you are on the political spectrum – there is distrust, there is fear and there is anger, and we should all be very alarmed,” said Disney. “And I drag big philanthropies these days and I don’t see any alarm. I don’t think it’s because they are not alarmed. I think it’s because they are afraid. Everyone is afraid.”

However, President Clinton said the Clinton Global Initiative, launched in 2005, has always sought to create solutions.

“If we hold on our heads, keep the eyes and ears open and treat with others with a tense hand and not a tight fist, we are fortunate to keep hope alive,” he said. “We are fortunate to make a significant difference in the lives of others.”

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