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Clinton Pediatric AIDS Initiative Offers Hope to Children in Kenya
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Program will provide anti-retroviral medicine to 1,000 children who
suffer from HIV





Former President Bill Clinton holds hand of tiny AIDS victim at at
Mbagathi Hospital in Nairobi, SaturdayFormer U.S. President Bill
Clinton is aiming to get life prolonging medication to hundreds of HIV
positive children in Kenya.

Mr. Clinton and Kenya's Minister of Health Charity Ngilu are launching
the Pediatric AIDS Initiative in Nairobi Saturday, at Mbagathi
Hospital.

The program will provide anti-retroviral medicine to 1,000 children
who suffer from HIV. That is equal to the number of children in Kenya
who already receive the treatments.

Some information for this report provided by AP. 

Mr. Clinton's foundation says 100,000 children in Kenya are
HIV-positive.

The former U.S. president is in Africa on a six-nation tour to review
AIDS initiatives created by his foundation.

He has already visited Mozambique, Lesotho, Tanzania, South Africa,
and travels next to Rwanda.

On Friday, Mr. Clinton held a joint news conference with Kenya's
President Mwai Kibaki, where Mr. Clinton spoke about the democratic
system.


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