MONTREAL — Canada is a leader when it comes to collaborating on global issues, rockstar Bono said Saturday during his keynote address at a Montreal conference to fundraise for AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. “We have reached our goal together, we have raised almost $13 billion and in doing so we have saved eight million lives,” he said. “I’m a fan of Canada,” he continued in French to applause. The United Nations has a goal of eliminating the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria by the year 2013. Mark Dybul, the fund’s executive director, said the three diseases are preventable, deadly and disproportionately affect marginalized and vulnerable populations.

Source: National Post September 17, 2016 19:30 UTC