Bill Clinton Announces Africa Trip
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:22 pm | posted by Virginia SimmonsYesterday, former President Bill Clinton announced an upcoming trip to Ethiopia, Rwanda, Liberia and Senegal to promote the Clinton Foundation’s new programs to fight AIDS and malaria. Earlier this month, the Clinton Foundation “reached an agreement with several pharmaceutical companies to slash the price of the top anti-malaria treatment by 30 percent.”(AFP)
President Clinton travels to Africa once a year and his first trip was while he was president in 1998. Due to ONE members’ “Visit Africa” campaign in February, both Senators McCain and Obama have pledged, that if they’re elected, they’ll visit the continent during their presidency. Check out their pledges here.
July 23rd, 2008 at 6:05 pm
best of luck with your travels, i wish i could go. if you need any volunteers please let me know.
August 3rd, 2008 at 7:28 pm
When do we start worrying about the health of our own undernourished, under-medicated people? The plight of the global community should not be any more important than the American poor indigenous people! Some of our fellow Americans live in conditions similar to Africa (dry, desolate homelands), yet the media prefers to ignore their situation entirely.
Maybe what is needed is for former President Clinton (or someone similar) to go to some of the American Indian reservations to see first hand what living conditions are. Maybe that person can explain to the citizens of those reservations why foreign citizens get our taxpayer money that should be spent here.