WJC to visit Ethiopia
July 21st, 2008 | EthioPolitics.com || - Follow Bill Clinton’s journey Via Email - Clinton Foundation Press Release |
Former US president William Jefferson Clinton on Tuesday announced an upcoming trip to Africa and Mexico to promote new programs by his Clinton Foundation to fight AIDS and malaria.
“This year, I am excited to take our work to the next level with new projects that will make a tremendous difference in turning the tide of the HIV/AIDS, improve lives, and help people work toward a brighter future,” Clinton said in New York.
He said his trip will begin next Tuesday with visits to Ethiopia, Rwanda, Liberia and Senegal, where he will meet with local officials and Clinton Foundation staff and members.
On his way back to the United States, Clinton said he would stop in Mexico to attend the August 3-8 International AIDS Conference in Mexico City.
The Clinton Foundation in 2002 launched an anti-AIDS initiative and this month has reached an agreement with several pharmaceutical companies to slash the price of the top anti-malaria treatment by 30 percent.
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President Bill Clinton also visited Ethiopia on July 2006, where he met with Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and launched a new health programme to help children suffering from AIDS.
Clinton had said during his last visit that his Foundation would further enhance its support to health development programmes in Ethiopia in the years ahead, while Meles assured Clinton that the government would do everything possible to help the Foundation realise its goals.
The two also visited ALERT (All African Leprosy and Rehabilitation Training Centre) Hospital, which provides healthcare services to children and AIDS orphans, and where Clinton laid a corner stone of the new Children Treatment Centre, which is being built with the assistance of the Foundation.
According to media in the United States, the news of Clinton’s trip comes at a fairly innocuous time in the election cycle. While both campaigns have waged an aggressive political war, the real drama (when Clinton’s help may be most needed) will come as November approaches.
The former president also announced that his foundation had signed pricing agreements with suppliers working on malaria-fighting drug in an effort to stabilize the cost of that medication.
3 Responses to “WJC to visit Ethiopia”
By Aba Mela on Jul 22, 2008 | Reply
WE ARE HAPPY FOR THE INITIATIVE PROGRAM OF BILL
CLINTON TO REDUCE HIV/AIDS IN OUR COUNTRY. AND
ACCORDING TO BRITISH EMBASSY IN ADDIS ABABA PRIME
MINISTER GORDON BROWN WILL PAY AN OFFICIAL VISIT
TO ETHIOPIA AT THE ENG OF AUGUST.
By getachew on Jul 22, 2008 | Reply
Bill Clinton and his likes will only aggrovate the Hiv/Aid and other sexually trasmitted disese in Ethiopia and Africa. We need to teach our people to fight the disease. Knowldege of retarding transmission of disease does not need money and begging the west for thier mercy.We need to fight tribalism and ethinic division in our country.Simple knowldge would do the trick.
long live ethiopia.
By Biritu on Jul 23, 2008 | Reply
getachew what are u talking about? how will bill aggravate the problem? u r not making sense