Volume 54, Number 2 · February 15, 2007
AIDS and the Power of Women
By Helen Epstein, Julia Kim
During the past six years the public health crisis in the developing world has been getting remarkable attention. In 2000, 189 nations came together at the UN to pledge their support for eight 'Millennium Development Goals' including the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, the reduction of child mortality, and the control of AIDS. Since then, several new public health foundations with billions of dollars to spend have emerged, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, as well as the less well endowed but no less ambitious William J. Clinton Foundation.
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