Coca-Cola and beer to every remote corner of Africa, it should not be impossible to do the same with drugs." - Meaning and context.">
Talking at the closing ceremony of the 14 International AIDS Conference in Barcelona on 12th July 2002, http://www.thebody.com/content/art926.html
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If we can get cold Coca-Cola and beer to every remote corner of Africa, it should not be impossible to do the same with drugs.

— Joep Lange

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "If we can get cold Coca-Cola and beer to every remote corner of Africa, it should not be impossible to do the same with drugs." in the context of "Talking at the closing ceremony of the 14 International AIDS Conference in Barcelona on 12th July 2002, http://www.thebody.com/content/art926.html" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Joep Lange

About Joep Lange

Joseph Marie Albert "Joep" Lange (25 September 1954 – 17 July 2014) was a Dutch clinical researcher specialising in HIV therapy. He served as the president of the International AIDS Society from 2002 to 2004. He was also the founding chairman of PharmAccess Foundation until his death. He was a passenger on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down on 17 July 2014 over Ukraine.