Former US president Bill Clinton on Monday (11 April) announced a plan to provide treatment for more than 60,000 AIDS-infected children in China and nine other countries, expanding a program already underway in Thailand and Brazil. The William J. Clinton Foundation will donate 10 million dollars to provide AIDS-suppressing pediatric drugs to infected children in Asia, the Caribbean and Africa. The money, which the foundation hopes will increase with donations from other donors, will also fund a new program to help AIDS sufferers in rural Africa, Clinton said.
"One in every six AIDS deaths each year is a child," Clinton said. "Yet children represent less than one of every 30 persons getting treatment in developing countries today. These children need hope." The foundation expects to extend the anti-retroviral drugs treatment to at least 10,000 children in at least 10 countries, including China, the Dominican Republic, and the African nations of Lesotho, Rwanda and Tanzania this year.
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