Earth Institute News Archive
posted 06/03/04
Reasons for Supporting the Global Fund Include
Altruism, Self-Interest
Glaser Progress Foundation encourages communication about global
AIDS crisis
Jeffrey Sachs and Richard Gere
Bono in discussion with Rob Glaser
Rob Glaser and Jeffrey Sachs co-hosted a dinner
last week intended to generate ideas on how to grow support for
the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The dinner
was attended by Richard Gere, Bono, Global Fund Director Richard
Feachem, George Soros, and many others. Rob Glaser is founder of
the Glaser Progress Foundation, which funds the Access Project.
The Access Project, which is run out of the Earth Institute at
Columbia and the Mailman School of Public Health's Center for Global
Health and Economic Development, works directly with governments
and independent organizations in the developing world to put Global
Fund programs and grant requests together. Dinner guests suggested
that Americans can be motivated to care about the global AIDS crisis
through a variety of messages, ranging from altruism to self-interest.
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more information on the Glaser Progress Foundation
and the Access Project
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