Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria" in English language version.
At the UN, Eddy tried to advance the notion that AIDS would overwhelm nation-states, begetting violence and disorder and possibly war. Only days before the planned session, Eddy found himself pitching the issue to an assemblage of African military attachés. The African generals took the presentation personally. They were offended that the United States would suggest that a disease was threatening to overwhelm their ability to rule their own countries. Walking out with a sinking feeling, Eddy thought the issue's prospects were bleak. When he checked back in with Holbrooke to relay the encounter, his boss assuaged his concerns, telling him that the meeting didn't really matter; the critical body was the Security Council. But Holbrooke and his team were having trouble convincing the members of the Council to give global AIDS a forum. "People were really scared to talk about this issue in a public setting, on the record, with implications," Bob Orr said. Russia, China, and France were all intransigent."
In his position as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations and later as the founding President of the Global Business Coalition against AIDS, Ambassador Holbrooke played a ground-breaking role in ensuring that the world accepted HIV and AIDS as a threat to international security and global business as well as being a humanitarian catastrophe. He was one of the drivers behind the allocation of large, additional resources to fight HIV and AIDS and was a tireless advocate for the engagement of the private sector in the fight against the pandemic and for testing and prevention as a crucial part of this struggle. The fight against HIV and AIDS has lost one of its most influential and passionate ambassadors. Richard Holbrooke will be missed by all who knew him and the millions who benefitted from his work.
