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The Associated Press - Tuesday September 12, 2000
Albright presented staggering figures of the toll the disease exacts worldwide: almost 3 million people die each year; each day, more than 10,000 people are newly infected.
And, Albright said, "each time we look, more and more of the victims are women."
Last year, Albright and other women foreign ministers tried to highlight the trafficking in women. This year, at a reception at the Pierpont Morgan Library sponsored by Marie Claire magazine, she focused on HIV/AIDS, saying "denial does not prevent disease, nor care for it, for those affflicted."
Despite strong efforts, Albright said, "we are not winning the war against AIDS, we are losing it."
The Clinton administration has invested $225 million this year to fight the disease and has proposed an increase of more than 50 percent in 2001, she said. But it will take more than money, she said, as the 13 foreign ministers signed a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan urging every effort to make the fight against AIDS a permanent part of the organization's agenda.
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