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Bill Gates: How HIV/AIDS prepared us to tackle COVID-19

Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, attends a news conference as the foundation teams up with the Japan Sports Agency and Tokyo 2020 to promote the Sustainable Development Goals in conjunction with the Olympics, in Tokyo, Japan, November 9, 2018.   REUTERS/Toru Hanai - RC1672C4FB90

Bill Gates has attributed halving HIV infections to the efforts of the Global Fund. Image: REUTERS/Toru Hanai

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