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"Mr President, first I would like to thank the Commissioner for his answers today. No one who has listened to the Commissioner over the last few years in this House could doubt his commitment to removing poverty and disease from the world as efficiently and effectively as possible using EU-resources.
I wanted to ask him a question about the third disease mentioned in this report, and suggest to him that perhaps we should concentrate on this least glamorous of the three, because tuberculosis could be eradicated. Unfortunately HIV, as you say, is likely to be with us for a long time and at the moment we are largely into palliative care as regards HIV/AIDS.
A concerted world programme over a relatively short period of time could eliminate tuberculosis from the world. I have a particular interest in this, because the cure was actually pioneered in my home city of Edinburgh 70 years ago. We thought we had eradicated it in western Europe, but it is re-emerging now. If we can remove it from the developing nations, we can also remove it from the world permanently. That is the prize – the permanent removal, which is unfortunately not yet available to us as regards the two other diseases.
Even if there is a delay in getting the World Fund going on the other diseases, perhaps we could suggest to Kofi Annan and the UN that we have a pilot project concentrating specifically on tuberculosis, which might inspire nations to contribute to the other areas once we see success in this area."@en1
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