By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
April 23 -- At
malaria day at
the UN on
Monday,
questions of
gaps emerged
and were
largely
dodged. Inner
City Press
asked Jeffrey
Sachs about
the resistant
strains of
malaria,
starting along
the
Myanmar -
Thailand
border. He
replied that
resistant is a
misnomer,
it's a product
of mono
therapy.
Ray
Chambers
promoted a
company in
Geneva which
he says may
solve this
problem.
But until it
does? Inner
City Press
asked Chambers
about the Global
Fund
scandal,
and when it
will be back
up and
running. By
the
beginning of
next year,
Chambers said.
And until
then?
Gabriel
Jaramillo,
former Banco
Santander and
Sovereign Bank
executive, was
supposed to
be at the
press
conference but
wasn't. So
Inner City
Press went to
a
chicken lunch
in the
re-opened
replacement
Delegates'
Dining Room.
There,
Jaramillo said
he would keep
his answer
short,
"because
my chicken
will get
cold."
Chambers,
another
finance titan,
spoke up
incoming World
Bank chief Jim
Yong Kim and
even praised Philippe Douste
Blazy and
UNITAID, whose
project to
raise money
with airplane
tickets not
only failed
but was
exposed as
corrupt. Click here
for Inner City
Press' first
exclusive
story. So
much for
accountability.
A
representative
of Medecins
Sans
Frontieres in
the audience
spoke up about
a major
increase of
malaria in the
Democratic
Republic of
Congo. (Inner
City
Press asked
where and was
promised a
press release
tomorrow).
Note
that the UN
has
stonewalled on
its waste
of funds in
Walikale in
Eastern DRC in
the "Meece's
Mills" scandal
exposed by
Inner City
Press, here.
The
representative
of the Gates
Foundation,
contrary it
seemed to Jeff
Sachs'
downplaying of
the resistant
strains in
Myanmar and
Thailand, said
these are a
problem.
Secretary
General
Ban Ki-moon,
it was
announced,
would speak to
the press
about Myanmar
at 5:30 pm.
Then a 5:45
photo op with
the Azeri
Ambassador was
added.
Fifteen
minutes for
presentation
and questions?
Resistant,
indeed.
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