Canada, the United States and other donors must heed Annan's call to fully fund the $10 billion Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. There's an ambitious program to bring drugs and expert medical care to millions more people next year.It sounds like a plan. The UN collects the funds, skims from the top, pads their expense accounts, hires two to three friends to flush out the payroll and gives them expense accounts, and the new hires buy generic drugs in violation of internationally recognized patent laws from Third World Countries. The drugs are then packaged in the EU, given a German label, shipped to Canada, (via France for their cut) and then shipped to Africa.
In all, maybe 10 cents on the dollar will actually go to the sufferers, but, hey, they would have died anyway.
No wonder the Bush administration isn't buying the idea. And no wonder they hate him for spoiling their lucrative game.
