The Gates Foundation has poured billions into sub-Saharan Africa through the Global Fund, to finance vaccines and antivirals for AIDS and TB treatment for 3.9 million people. But one AIDS patient, Moleko, told the Times, “The clinics don’t have what we need: food.”185 Majubilee Mathibeli, the nurse at Queen II hospital who gives Moleko her pills, wept in frustration as she told the Times reporter that four out of five of her patients ate fewer than three meals a day. “Most of them,” she said, “are dying of hunger.” In Lesotho and Rwanda, dozens of patients described hunger “so brutal that
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