 The bill then stalled in the Senate and died on the order paper when the government fell.Part of the challenge in providing medicine to Africa was highlighted by former U.S. President Bill Clinton at a meeting of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations on February 23, 2009.Speaking on Global Health Progress, Clinton stated... my experience has been that almost no one in the world will die this year because of the cost or the lack of availability of AIDS medicine.