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“I think it is also important that we look for new prevention options, particularly for women, who make up 50 percent of those living with the disease today. That is why I believe microbicides are so important and why we must move rapidly – scientists, advocates and policy makers – to make them a reality for women as soon as possible.”
Kofi Annan, Secretary-General, United Nations
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“… the United Kingdom has decided to make Africa, along with climate change, one of the two priorities of our G8 presidency. Co-ordinated action by the world’s richest nations is essential if Africa is to be given a fair chance… We need to play our part in tackling HIV and AIDS, working together to respond effectively, and moving forward on research on vaccines and microbicides.”
Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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“In the long term, I think the most promising prevention tool is a microbicide that women could use independent of their husbands... We could have a microbicide in five years.”
Bill Clinton, former U.S. President
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“The only possibility we have to control the pandemic is to boost research and development of new prevention technologies, such as vaccines and microbicides.”
Dr. Humberto Costa, Minister of Health, Brazil
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“[It is] urgent to find solutions that can provide women with a priceless instrument in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Microbicides represent in this context one imperative mechanism in the development of effective interventions to overcome these barriers and to provide women with more potential in the fight against the AIDS pandemic.”
Dr. Paulo Ivo Garrido, Minister of Health, Mozambique
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“We want to call on everyone here and around the world to help speed up what we hope will be the next big breakthrough in the fight against AIDS – the discovery of a microbicide or an oral prevention drug that can block the transmission of HIV.”
Bill Gates, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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“Through our foundation, my husband, Bill, and I are working to develop tools that can put the power to prevent AIDS into the hands of women. Microbicides are one exciting new prevention tool in development.”
Melinda French Gates, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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“The government of Sweden has made advancing microbicide research and development a priority. Safe and effective microbicides, along with existing prevention options, will ultimately reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS, and therefore will directly contribute to the achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals.”
Carin Jämtin, former Minister for International Development Cooperation, Sweden
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“As we work to deliver universal access of treatment through the provision of antiretrovirals, new prevention tools must be part of our battle. Microbicides are one of the most promising and empowering tools being developed.”
Hilde F. Johnson, former Norwegian Minister of International Development
Graça Machel, President, Foundation for Community Development
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“Crucially, microbicides will give women more control over preventing HIV transmission.”
Conor Lenihan, T.D., Minister of State, Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland
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“The search for a microbicide is one of the most important things the world is doing.”
Stephen Lewis, UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa
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“As we work to deliver universal access of treatment through the provision of antiretrovirals, new prevention tools must be part of our battle. Microbicides are one of the most promising and empowering tools being developed.”
Graça Machel, President, Foundation for Community Development
Hilde F. Johnson, former Norwegian Minister of International Development
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“…these facts mean that until we seriously invest in possible solutions to this epidemic, particularly microbicides, transmission is going to persist and lives are going to be lost, and not only women but children will be infected.”
Barack Obama, U.S. Senator
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“I continue to believe that stopping this epidemic will require a vaccine and responding to the growing feminization of the epidemic requires both the development, urgently, of a microbicide and a vaccine.”
Dr. Peter Piot, Executive Director, UNAIDS
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“We need more preventive technologies and we need to work together – rich and poor, public and private – to develop these technologies. This is one more reason why vaccines and microbicides are essential prevention to the war against AIDS.”
Dr. Kapil Sibal, Minister of Science and Technology, India
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