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and child health, and tobacco control. But if one accepts the tenet that science should inform policy, then the scientific data are speaking loud and clear. Global policy-makers must seriously consider these new data in their priority-setting and decision-making. Last month, world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly Meeting on AIDS called for providing ART for 15 million people in low- and middle-income countries by 2015, an increase from the 6.6 million currently receiving therapy, plus additional efforts toward universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, and care. An estimated $22 billion to $23 billion annually will be needed by 2015; current spending is approximately $16 billion. Such targeted investments could prevent 12 million infections and 7.4 million AIDS-related deaths by 2020. For the first time in the history of HIV/AIDS, controlling and ending the pandemic are feasible; however, a truly global commitment, including investments by those rich and middle-income countries whose contributions have thus far been limited, is essential. Major investments in implementation now will save even greater expenditures in the future; and in the meantime, countless lives can be saved. July 1, 2011 - E-mails from Gregg Gonsalves: -----Original Message----- From: Gregg Gonsalves [mailto:gregg.gonsalves@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 6:55 AM To: Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E] Subject: Brilliant Science Piece I think it will go down as one of the most important pieces written in these past 30 years. It will either begin a new push to vanquish the disease from the Obama Administration and other world leaders, or seen as Cassandra's last warning, where even despite the science, the evidence, the world turns their back on this opportunity. g -- Gregg Gonsalves 100 York Street University Towers, 10-D New Haven, CT 06511 Email: gregg.gonsalves@gmail.com or gregg.gonsalves@yale.edu Mobile: +1-203-606-9149 -----Original Message----- From: Gregg Gonsalves [mailto:gregg.gonsalves@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 7:22 AM Subject: Fauci in Science: Ending the Pandemic is Feasible http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6038/13.full (scroll down for text) This is one of the most important pieces to be written on HIV/AIDS in a very, very long time. Dr. Fauci is a cautious scientist and for him to step out so publicly, so unequivocally in this way,