Ahern’s €110m donation to Clinton makes Ireland third largest buyer of AIDS drugs

THE Taoiseach agreed yesterday to give Bill Clinton up to €110m to fight AIDS and HIV in Africa.

According to the former US President, it will make Ireland the world's third largest buyer of drugs for the treatment of AIDS.

The Government yesterday became the first in the world to back the aid organisation set up by Mr Clinton the William J Clinton Presidential Foundation to provide anti-retroviral drugs to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa.