The Woodstock of Global Health

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Bono speaks to the conference by video from Los Angeles November 2005. 

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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.”

“A world without malaria and TB is no longer unthinkable,” Bono continued. “A world without AIDS or extreme poverty is no longer unimaginable. Now more than ever we in the West need to show the rest of the world what we stand for as well as what we stand against. We are the first generation that can look extreme poverty and disease in the eye and change it.”