How does the Global Fund to Fight AIDS compare to PEPFAR?
The United States, as I understand, also is a major contributor to the global fund and there were people who simply wanted the money to go to WHO and the global fund. But I think our country got this one really correct because in the global fund you give, you don't know always what you get. It's important to contribute to the global fund but here you know precisely what you're getting because it's bringing clinical scientists, university scientists from America together with accepted people in a given country that are on the ground in that country and it's designed to bring training to the people not just here's the drugs and we go home. You don't just put the drug on the beach and go away, you stay. You build an infrastructure with them and you have people coming here to the United States from some of those countries. So the training is how to use the drugs properly. What drugs are best in that local? Making certain considerations and testing and considering the local infrastructure and to help them with their infrastructure, not just here's the drug and go away.
