ONE was lucky enough to spend a very special evening with partner Blood:Water Mission for the Red Tie Gala in Nashville, Tenn. The event, which coincided with World AIDS Day, was a celebration of the tremendous work that has been done around the world to fight HIV/AIDS. Bill Frist at the gala ONE was especially

Senator Frist is sending in daily posts from ONE’s recent trip to Rwanda. Below is the post he wrote about Sunday. SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST-CATHEDRAL The drive to Saint John the Baptist-Cathedral in Ruhengeri is about two hours. It is a windy, but beautiful, road. Rwanda is known as the Land of a Thousand Hills,

July 19, 2 pm Nyandugu Coffee Washing Station How in the world can you take an economy in which over 50% of the population is under the poverty level, is landlocked, ranks somewhere around 160th out of 180 countries on the “Developmental Scale,” and even think about “making extreme poverty history?” as we in ONE

July 19, 2008 11 am The first stop this morning was the Kigali Genocide Memorial Center. John Podesta and I laid a wreath at the mass grave site of the genocide victims. I had the opportunity to do this last year when I was in Rwanda with Samaritan’s Purse, Scott Hughett, and my wife, Karyn

ONE Vote ’08 Co-Chairs and former senate leaders Bill Frist and Tom Daschle talk about what they’ve seen and learned so far and what message they want to pass along when they return to the States later this week.

July 19 2008 8 a.m. Saturday First for the questions that I am most frequently asked. What is ONE? And why are Tom Daschle and Bill Frist leading this delegation to Rwanda? ONE is a grassroots organization with about 2 million members in the U.S whose purpose is to fight extreme poverty and preventable disease

July 18, 2008 We were up at 6 am and off to the airport. Things took just a bit longer to clear customs for our flight to Kigali, Rwanda, so we were delayed us just a bit. We left Mozambique after a full four and a half days, with many great memories. We are much

I woke up at 3:30am this morning, left my son Harrison in the hotel room, and headed for our 4:30am departure to Nampula, Mozambique. We flew in a Cessna Caravan of AIM AIR with Capt. Dan Spooner. Capt. Spooner had taken me in AIM AIR with Samaritan’s Purse about a year and a half ago

I woke up to a crystal blue sky in Maputo. I began the day performing a major lung operation for tuberculosis (pneumonectomy), and I ended the day discussing with the President of Mozambique the American people’s commitment to fighting extreme poverty in his country. Maputo Central Hospital: Surgery At 7:30am, we departed for Maputo Central

Sen. Bill Frist, MD, is traveling through Mozambique and Rwanda on a 10-day trip to visit and observe the great work of U.S. led initiatives. Throughout the trip he’s blogging on the Healing Hands blog and here on the ONE Blog. In Maputo, Mozambique, today, I met with senior officials to discuss the progress of