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Highlights From the Conference, November 1-3, 2005

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The Bills Take On the Summit

The two Bills, Clinton and Gates, took the stage this afternoon at the Time Global Health Summit. For two men who spend their lives in the klieg lights, this was a rare opportunity for what could almost pass for a schmooze. TIME managing editor Jim Kelly asked them a wide range of questions, many of them posed in writing by conference attendees. Read More | View High Bandwidth Webcast | View Low Bandwidth Webcast

The Woodstock of Global Health

Bono speaks to the conference by video from Los Angeles – Bono has just called the Summit the Woodstock of Global Health. And he wishes he were here in New York instead of on tour on the West Coast. "I mean Jeff Sachs is Jimi Hendrix isn't he?" Bono said by video from California—though Bono admitted he thought Sachs might set himself on fire. He imagined President Clinton singing "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and Bill Gates crooning "The Times They are A Changing." Read More

Virgin Buys Tamiflu

Richard Branson, Chairman of Virgin Group Ltd. said today that his company is looking into machines and new technologies to put on aircrafts to kill germs in anticipation of a bird flu pandemic. He said his company has purchased 10,000 doses of the drug Tamiflu for his staff. Read More | View High Bandwidth Webcast | View Low Bandwidth Webcast

"How Do We Get From Here to There?"

TIME's International Editor Michael Elliott pointed out three thematic C's: coordination; capacity buildng; and conditionality, concepts that have guided our perspectives and influence our decisions on the path toward global health. But in the following session, Charlie Rose and four panelists tried to distill the rigorous discussion from the past day and a half--which took place on the dais and the stage as often as it did in elevators and over clinking glasses and plates--and figure out the mechanics of our next step. Here is some of what they came up with... Read More | View High Bandwidth Webcast | View Low Bandwidth Webcast

Sheila's Story

I think what will stay with me the longest after this conference is over are the stories of some of the people I've met. Like Sheila Ngomane, 42, of South Africa whose life has been saved thanks to the anti-retrovirals she's taking. Sheila, who comes from the township of Elansdoorn 90 miles north of Pretoria in South Africa, didn't make any speeches at the Summit but Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Atlantic acknowledged her during the seminar on what business can do about global health. Read More

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