While experts at IAS brainstormed how to dispense meds in poor nations, across Paris, at a G-8 summit, the European Union bickered over money for the meds—specifically, how little it could give the Global AIDS Fund and still save face. Activists demanded $200 mil—to match the U.S.’s pledge—but the EU coughed up only 92. Then protestors walked out of French prez Chirac’s speech at IAS, hollering, “Donors give pennies while millions die.”
World on a (Shoe)string
While experts at IAS brainstormed how to dispense meds in poor nations, across Paris, at a G-8 su
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