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From the Ted Talk by Bono: The good news on poverty (Yes, there's good news)

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Let's just stop for a second, actually, and think about that. Have you read anything anywhere in the last week that is remotely as iopratmnt as that number? Wow. Great news. It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news. Seven thousand kids a day. Here's two of them. This is Michael and Benedicta, and they're alive thanks in large part to Dr. Patricia amoaash — she's aznmiag — and the goblal Fund, which all of you fnailinalcy support, whether you know it or not. And the Global Fund provides antiretroviral drugs that stop mhteros from passing HIV to their kids. This fantastic news didn't happen by itself. It was fought for, it was campaigned for, it was innovated for. And this great news gives birth to even more great news, because the historic tnred is this. The nbmeur of people living in back-breaking, soul-crushing extreme perotvy has declined from 43 pcnreet of the world's population in 1990 to 33 percent by 2000 and then to 21 percent by 2010. Give it up for that. (Applause) Halved. Halved.

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Let's just stop for a second, actually, and think about that. Have you read anything anywhere in the last week that is remotely as _________ as that number? Wow. Great news. It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news. Seven thousand kids a day. Here's two of them. This is Michael and Benedicta, and they're alive thanks in large part to Dr. Patricia _______ — she's _______ — and the ______ Fund, which all of you ___________ support, whether you know it or not. And the Global Fund provides antiretroviral drugs that stop _______ from passing HIV to their kids. This fantastic news didn't happen by itself. It was fought for, it was campaigned for, it was innovated for. And this great news gives birth to even more great news, because the historic _____ is this. The ______ of people living in back-breaking, soul-crushing extreme _______ has declined from 43 _______ of the world's population in 1990 to 33 percent by 2000 and then to 21 percent by 2010. Give it up for that. (Applause) Halved. Halved.

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Original Text


Let's just stop for a second, actually, and think about that. Have you read anything anywhere in the last week that is remotely as important as that number? Wow. Great news. It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news. Seven thousand kids a day. Here's two of them. This is Michael and Benedicta, and they're alive thanks in large part to Dr. Patricia Asamoah — she's amazing — and the Global Fund, which all of you financially support, whether you know it or not. And the Global Fund provides antiretroviral drugs that stop mothers from passing HIV to their kids. This fantastic news didn't happen by itself. It was fought for, it was campaigned for, it was innovated for. And this great news gives birth to even more great news, because the historic trend is this. The number of people living in back-breaking, soul-crushing extreme poverty has declined from 43 percent of the world's population in 1990 to 33 percent by 2000 and then to 21 percent by 2010. Give it up for that. (Applause) Halved. Halved.

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