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Dr. Mark Dybul Takes World Stage to Lead Global Fund

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Dr. Mark Dybul, Sarah Brown, Naomi Campbell

President George W. Bush named Dr. Mark Dybul the US’s Global AIDS Coordinator and very successfully led the President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief.  He now takes the world’s stage as the leader of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Dr. Dybul was at Georgetown University and assisted many health non-profits including David and Susan Axelrod’s CURE Epilepsy and Barbara Bush’s Global Health Corps.  He will relocate to Geneva.  Click here to read more, or the official press release below.

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Election 2010 Round-Up: 43 Days and Counting

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Six weeks until the 2010 election and the Tea Party remains the big discussion point for wonks across the country. Here’s what’s been happening over the weekend:

  • The Untied Nations Summit and Clinton Global Initiative begin today in New York City. [USA Today]
  • CNBC’s John Harwood hosts a town hall event in Washington DC with President Obama today at noon. [CNBC]
  • The New York Times cites Obama aides as prepping a united front against the Tea Party by tying them to the GOP…
  • …yet Politico‘s own White House sources say the Times is “100 percent wrong.”
  • And the Washington Post cites an AP poll claiming both Republicans and Democrats are disliked by voters, which always leaves a third-party option.