Bono at the TIME Global Health Summit

[Jamila]

Bono spoke earlier today via videophone at the TIME Global Health Summit.

Here is some more info on the Summit:

http://www.time.com/time/2005/globalhealth/


Here is the info on Bono's appearance at the Summit and the transcript of what he said at the Summit.

Just wanted to share.


http://www.time.com/time/2005/globalhealth/webcasts.html

(Bono's webcast)


You can also click on the "Transcripts" icon and have a copy of what Bono said at the conference.

Very cool.


ALL BECAUSE OF YOU....

 

[Jamila]

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.”

--Christine Gorman

 

[Merc]

Thanks Jamila!



I was looking for the Bono/Mr. Annan-webcast yesterday, but think I got the timezones mixed up, cos I saw a panel-discussion with Prof. sachs instead - but thats ok too!

Prof. Sachs

 

[lady luck]

THANKS JAMILA!

 

[Jamila]

you're very welcomed, my friends.

 

[Jamila]

see if this link might work better for the webcast:

http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/hcast_index.cfm?display=detail&hc=1578


I couldn't download the webcast either.


IT'S NOT WHAT YOU'RE DREAMING - IT'S WHAT YOU'RE GONNA DO.