Congress Bonus: Thanks for ignoring Trump on AIDS funding
Congress Bonus: Thanks for ignoring Trump on AIDS funding
Bono has a message for the Congress of the United States: Thank you for ignoring the President Donald Trump.
Trump has tried to cut hundreds of millions of dollars of US funds. UU For AIDS programs in the country and abroad, but the leader of U2 says that members of Congress "have so far rejected this president's request to cut AIDS funds - right and left together in this."
Your message to them? "Thanks for your leadership."
Bono is caught between hope and frustration as, for the third time in a decade, he organizes an auction to raise funds for the fight against HIV / AIDS. Sotheby's announced the details on Monday of the December 5 sale in Miami to benefit (RED), the charity founded by Bono in 2006.
Two previous sales, in 2008 and 2013, raised $ 68 million. Five years after the last, Bono says that the great advances in the prevention and treatment of HIV / AIDS are threatened by a weakening of the global resolution.
"We could be in the dumbest moment of all, which is that we are almost on the moon and we are going backwards," Bono told The Associated Press by telephone from Dublin.
According to UNAIDS, almost 37 million people worldwide have HIV, and almost 22 million of them receive antiretroviral therapy, the most effective form of treatment. The number of annual infections has been reduced by almost half since 1996 to 1.8 million, and the number of deaths has been reduced by half since 2004.
Bono says the results are the product of "incredible leadership from around the world" that has made the elimination of the disease a realistic prospect.
"There is a meeting of consensus and momentum, and now people are looking the other way, and it's just the wrong time," he said.
To help draw attention to the cause, Bono addressed two influential artists whose work, he says, "has a core of social justice." The auction is by the British architect David Adjaye, who designed the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, and the American artist Theaster Gates, who directs artistic and social projects from his base on the south side of Chicago.
Adopting the theme "light", the couple has gathered more than 50 batches of artists, architects and designers, including Ai Weiwei, Jeff Koons, Yinka Shonibare and Sean Scully. The designer pieces include Christian Louboutin shoes; a coffee table with curves by the late Zaha Hadid; and a ring cut in a whole diamond, created by Apple Inc.'s design chief, Jony Ive, and industrial designer Mark Newson.
Adjaye offers items he has designed, including a concrete speaker (in red, naturally), and Gates has contributed one of a series of tapestries made from used fire hose strips.
"We wanted to shed light on this issue again, metaphorically," said Adjaye, who is also concerned that the world's attention has shifted away from AIDS and other crises.
"I think our collective sense of civil society is very under siege," he said. "That creates a kind of attitude 'it's not my problem', and I think we have to counter that."
The money raised by the auction will go to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and to the Gates' Rebuild Foundation, which works with disadvantaged communities in Chicago.
A criticism sometimes made of charities like (RED), which has persuaded big companies like Bank of America, Starbucks and Apple to promote awareness about AIDS, is that their work allows politicians and governments to get out of the claws.
Bono maintains that "the point is to put them back on the hook".
"Doing something popular makes politicians pay attention," he said. "And we're going to need that more than ever" in an era of growing nationalism.
"Women are the rising category (of infections) at the moment, and while the world looks the other way in this rather infantile struggle between strong men around the world, these budgets are being cut and women are paying the most high.
"It's really very annoying for all of us," he added. "Because we were really excited, we think we're at the turning point, and now we hear, 'No, no, we're going to cut these budgets.'" It's not just the United States, many countries are getting first. first, but as you know, global health crises do not respect borders. "
The artworks of the auction will be exhibited by Gagosian at the Moore Building in Miami from December 1 to December 7. They will be sold at a live auction on December 5 and an online sale that is open for bidding from November 12 to December 5. 7
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