AIDS. Bill Frist, the leader of the Senate, said he thought that, in ten years, people would look back on this initiative as the most important part of the address.

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Ranbaxy is one of three Indian companies selected by the Bill Clinton Foundation to supply a triple-molecule AIDS drug for distribution in Africa and the Caribbean.

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Praising the Senate bill, Peter Piot, executive director of the UN Programme on HIV-Aids, said US legislation before the G8 summit would "send a strong message that the global fight against Aids should be a top priority at this meeting".

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Partnerships with national governments and development partners, including, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the World Bank Booster Program for Malaria Control, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the UN Envoy for Malaria, which has mobilized thousands of partners with the goal of reaching the universal coverage of long lasting insecticide treated bed-nets by the end of this year, have made these successes possible.

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AIDS. But much of this work is still supported by personal philanthropy, the stuff of Bill Gates rather than the middle managers who run the world's largest firms.

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