Sep 18 2006
Fortune Magazine recently profiled former President Clinton and his involvement in the global battle against HIV/AIDS, including the work of the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative.
"[T]he former president has borrowed from the business world to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa and other scourges," most recently in countries such as Ethiopia, Liberia, Nigeria and Rwanda, according to Fortune.
The Clinton Foundation, which "operates a bit like a management consulting firm ... that is out to rescue the world from the dark threats of poverty, AIDS, climate change and childhood obesity," is "part of a new turn in philanthropy, in which lines between not-for-profits, politics and business tend to blur," Fortune reports.
In addition, the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative has negotiated price reductions for antiretroviral drugs to treat HIV/AIDS -- including pediatric antiretrovirals -- and HIV tests, according to Fortune.
"If you can do something that makes a difference, you have a moral obligation," Clinton said, adding "But it's not a burden, it's a joy" (McLean, Fortune Magazine, 9/7).
Kaisernetwork.org will provide live webcasting of the 2006 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting September 20 through 22. Click here for more information on the webcast schedule.
 This article was reprinted from khn.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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