Bill Frist '74 to lead global drive on children's health

Colleges & Universities Princeton University
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<p>from today’s new york times:</p>

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<p>Bill Frist, the Tennessee Republican who retired this year as Senate majority leader, announced yesterday that he would lead a drive by the charity Save the Children to make the preventable deaths of millions of children in the developing world an issue for Americans. </p>

<p>Mr. Frist, a surgeon, helped push through large increases in federal spending on another global health issue, AIDS, during his years in Congress. </p>

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<p>Mr. Frist is also involved in a related effort. </p>

<p>The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given $22 million to the One Campaign, of which Bono is a founder, with the aim of focusing the attention of presidential candidates on a range of international development issues, including child survival. It has called this effort One Vote ’08, and Mr. Frist, who himself decided against running for president this year, is leading it with another former Senate majority leader, Tom Daschle, Democrat of South Dakota. </p>

<p>While federal spending on AIDS globally has almost quadrupled over the past five years, advocates for children have been frustrated by stagnancy in spending on many of the common childhood illnesses that were long ago conquered in rich countries. Millions of newborns, babies and toddlers in poor countries die each year of pneumonia, diarrhea and other ailments that can be cheaply prevented or treated. “We have tools that are inexpensive, reproducible and proven, yet they’re not being applied,” Mr. Frist said.</p>

<p>In an interview, he said he had made the case for investing more on maternal and child health in recent conversations with some Republican presidential candidates: Mike Huckabee, Sam Brownback, Fred D. Thompson and Mitt Romney.</p>

<p>Mr. Frist, who will teach a course on global health this year at Princeton University, said he planned to devote the next decade of his life to improving the survival odds of children and mothers in the developing world, joining other retired politicians working on global health. Former President Bill Clinton has taken on AIDS, while former President Jimmy Carter has long battled neglected tropical diseases.</p>

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<p>Nice post. I believe his son is a rising Sophomore.</p>

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<p>He’ll be teaching next year also!</p>

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<p>in other princetonian politician news, former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld '54 has accepted a post at the hoover institution, the conservative public policy think tank at stanford. other princetonian “fellows” of the institution include former secretary of state george shultz '42 and former judge and fox news analyst andrew napolitano '72.</p>

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