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ethics manager who will act
as an ombudsman and a con
tent review board will moni
tor future editions of The
Tartan, he said.
The board will include
Dean of Student Affairs
Michael Murphy, Vice
Provost for Education Indira
Nair and Gloria Hill, the
director of the Carnegie
Mellon Action Project, a sup
port service for black,
American Indian and
Hispanic students.
Advertising revenue pays
for the newspaper editors’
small stipend. But the staff
receive $2,500 in student
activities money to produce
the April Fool’s Day edition.
“We all make mistakes and
people err in judgment,”
Murphy said.’”The Tartan is
sitting in judgment of itself
... the administration will
also sit in judgment of The
Tartan and the students
involved in this.”
Demonstrators on
Saturday demanded the
newspaper suspend publica
tion, the editorial board
resign and the university
suspend or expel the stu
dents responsible for print
ing the racial slur.
“As a Jew, I’m outraged
that something like this
would happen on this cam
pus, at a school that prides
itself on diversity,” said
sophomore Rachel Gross.
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Coalition expands AIDS drug plan
By Shankar Vedantam
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A year-old deal that offers
AIDS drugs at a steep dis
count to 16 countries has
been expanded to all the
world’s poor nations, a key
step toward making treat
ment available to millions of
vulnerable patients.
Broadening the program to
more than 100 countries
could dramatically increase
the number of AIDS patients
being treated and offers hope
that the World Health
Organization (WHO) might
achieve its goal of getting 3
miUion poor people on anti
retroviral therapy by 2005,
advocates said.
The groups that negotiated
the agreement — the World
Bank, the Global Fund,
UNICEF and the Clinton
Foundation — combine for
the first time some of the
largest fimding agencies with
those that have the best pub
lic health expertise, including
"WHO.
Missing, however, was one
prominent funder: the U.S.
government, which has its
own plan to help AIDS
patients in poor countries.
The $15 billion U.S. plan
seeks to buy medicines
involving multiple combina
tions of pills from Western
pharmaceutical companies
that hold patents on the
drugs, while yesterday’s deal
will rely on fixed-dose medi
cines made in India and
South Afiica, which combine
three drugs in one pill.
Despite the agreement, the
participants said, the ambi
tious “3 by 5” target set by
WHO faces daunting chal
lenges, mostly because of a
lack of public health infra
structure to deliver the medi
cines in the poorest coimtries.
But quality drugs at afford
able prices are an essential
first step.
’The cheapest test-and-drug
combination wiU cost about
$200 per patient per year
under the new agreement.
“It’s not a good excuse to
say, ‘I won’t give lower-priced
drugs because they don’t
have infrastructure,’ “ said
Ira Magaziner, chairman of
the Clinton Foundation’s
AIDS initiative, referring to
the historical resistance by
some U.S. and European
pharmaceutical companies to
efforts to provide steeply dis
counted generic medicines to
the world’s poorest AIDS
patients.
Of about 6 million people
with AIDS in poor countries,
only 200,000 currently
receive the treatment that
can save their lives. The
manufacturers who are to
supply the generic medicines
will make them available at
about one-third to one-half
the cost of the cheapest prices
being offered by companies in
wealthy countries.
Countries that want to get
medicines under the agree
ment will have to build up
health systems to deliver
them to patients and prevent
diversion of the drugs to rich
countries, where they could
be resold at sizable profits.
“The program could fall
apart if black marketeers get
in and start diverting medi
cines,” Magaziner said.
Some poor countries
already have the public
health infrastructure to sign
on to the new program imme
diately, while others may
take months or even years
before they have a system
that can test patients and
deliver the medicines correct
ly, he said.
The new agreement takes-
advantage of the complemen
tary strengths of the four
organizations that worked it
out.
“For us, it is not a problem
with money, it is a problem of
using the money appropriate
ly and being able to imple
ment the project,” said
Yolanda Taylor, senior spe
cialist for
procurement/health at the
World Bank. She said the
bank had committed $1.6 bil
lion for AIDS, and about 75
percent of that money
remains to be spent.
The Global Fund is a pub
lic-private partnership that
raises money to fight AIDS,
tuberculosis and malaria.
UNICEF has expertise in
procuring drugs, assessing
* demand and creating distrib
ution networks. B/ banding
together, the groups expect to
guarantee generic manufac
turers large sales, along with
longer contracts and bigger
upfront payments — all of
which lower the risk for man
ufacturers and the cost for
participating countries.
“We need low prices, we
want the lowest prices possi
ble,” said Liza Barrie, a
spokeswoman for UNICEF.
“And the Clinton Foundation
needs volume. So it’s a ques
tion of marrying different pri
orities.
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