Bill Clinton and Annie Lennox Fight for AIDS Awareness

Former President Bill Clinton and singer Annie Lennox were in Mexio this week for the XVII International AIDS Conference. The conference aims to allow a variety of parties of discuss and present new scientific research and ideas on facing the challenges of a global response to AIDS. This year’s theme was Universal Action Now, stressing the urgency of the situation.

President Clinton expressed the importance of working together to solve the problem, saying, “We know there is so much yet to be done: to expand prevention, treatment and care, to strengthen undeveloped health systems.”

Annie, who acted as an ambassador for Oxfam at the conference, had a slightly different focus — she brought attention to the plight of HIV positive mothers. She told conference attendees, “I feel it is a right of women to be able to give birth safely, and when a woman is HIV positive the baby can obviously have the virus transmitted before being born. I think this is a fundamental human right for every woman to have access to treatment and health care, so this is something I’m actually addressing and talking about while we are here.”

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