Meanwhile, former President Bill Clinton also spoke and called on _Western countries to increase funding for research.

• Former President Bill Clinton: “Here’s the bottom line–we know how to overcome AIDS, we know how to prevent millions of needless deaths, we know it can be done with urgent, sustained and strategic action. First there must be enough money of course to fund effective prevention efforts and to treat those who need it and to continue the important research on vaccines, microbicides and all the other areas that need the research.”