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Global Wellness Leaders Respond To Recent New York Times’ Opinion Pieces
Two global health leaders respond to AIDS-related opinion pieces within the New York Times letters section.
The first letter, Ambassador Eric Goosby, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, addresses an opinion piece by Desmond Tutu, archbishop emeritus of Cape Town and honorary chairman with the Global AIDS Alliance. Goosby writes, “The United States has been and continues to be the global leader on HIV/AIDS. The best metric of our success is lives saved.” Goosby cites an increased number of folks on antiretrovirals financed by the United States and a commitment to treat four million more as portion with the Global Well being Initiative.
In a second letter, responding to a New York Times editorial about global AIDS funding, Adrienne Germain, president of the International Women’s Well being Coalition, writes: “[M]ore resources are required for programs to empower girls and females, here and in other countries.” She cites an increase within the number of ladies living with HIV globally and writes that girls can be empowered by developing self-esteem, educating young men and women that “violence and sexual coercion are unacceptable,” and supplying access to health services (7/23).
President Obama Should Listen To Tutu On U.S. AIDS Commitment
Former U.S. President George W. Bush was “rightfully celebrated for his commitment to fighting the global AIDS epidemic” while President Barack Obama’s budget increase of $366 million this year “doesn’t come close towards the $1 billion a year the existing president promised to add as a candidate,” writes journalist Sean Kennedy in a CNN.com commentary. Kennedy notes that “people around the world are starting to notice the discrepancy,” citing Tutu’s recent opinion piece.
The commentary also discusses Obama’s domestic AIDS strategy, which “isn’t much better,” in accordance with the author. “Obama should listen to his fellow Nobel laureate Tutu. … Right after all, he wants posterity to judge him far more favorably than Bush, right?” Kennedy concludes (7/23).
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