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Both [Bill Clinton] and [Bill Gates] praised the Bush administration's program, PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a five- year, $15 billion program that serves 16 countries, 13 of them in Africa. One part of the program aims to help provide pregnant women with pills to have healthy babies

Reflecting those efforts, Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, told the conference on Sunday night that there was 'a new sense of optimism' in Africa because 'the world is doing far more than ever before to fight AIDS.' Gates and his wife, [Melinda Gates], who have made stopping AIDS the priority for their foundation, gave keynote addresses at the conference. They called for increased global access to HIV prevention and treatment programs and greater efforts to break the stigma of AIDS. Since the Zambian government opened 18 clinics in April 2004, death rates from AIDS have been reduced to compare favorably to those in the United States among patients who had taken standard anti-retroviral drugs for at least three months, said Dr. Jeffrey Stringer, who led the team that reported the Lusaka findings. Dr. Peter Piot, the executive director of the UN's AIDS program, said in an opening talk that the world must develop a sustainable plan to treat and prevent AIDS over the next several decades. 'We must ensure that no credible national AIDS plan goes unfunded, now or in the decades ahead,' Piot said

Both men praised the Bush administration's program, Pepfar, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a five-year, $15 billion program that serves 16 countries, 13 of them in Africa. One part of the program aims to help provide pregnant women with the pills to have healthy babies. For example, Mr. [Bill Gates] said, a simple drug therapy can help most infected mothers avoid passing the AIDS virus to newborns. But, in part because of stigma, poor countries are unable to provide that treatment for an overwhelming majority of pregnant women. As for stigma, Mr. [Bill Clinton] cited China's experience in reversing its position on AIDS. ''Initially, the Chinese were in denial about AIDS, and then they decided they wouldn't be, and they turned on a dime,'' he said

Mr. [Bill Clinton] and Mr. [Bill Gates], who each have charitable foundations that support the fight against AIDS, have become the newest popular face of the campaign as they have traveled the globe, often together, to learn more. Both Mr. Clinton and Mr. Gates praised the Bush administration's program, PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a five-year, $15 billion program that serves 16 countries, 13 of them in Africa. One part of the program aims to help provide pregnant women with the pills to have healthy babies. For example, Mr. Gates said, a simple drug therapy can help most infected mothers avoid passing the AIDS virus to newborns. But, in part because of stigma, poor countries are unable to provide that treatment for the overwhelming majority of pregnant women

[Clinton] and [Bill Gates], who each have charitable foundations that support the fight against AIDS, lauded the Bush administration's program, PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a five-year, $15 billion program that serves 16 countries, 13 of them in Africa. One part of the program aims to help provide pregnant women with the pills to have healthy babies

The three women are among about 100 African grandmothers who flew here for a four-day gathering before the opening of the 16th International AIDS Conference on Sunday. The gathering, which brought the African women together with about 200 Canadian grandmothers (very few of them dealing with AIDS in their immediate families), is believed to be the first large one dedicated to helping grandmothers cope with the AIDS pandemic. Cherry Matimuna, 53, is a nurse who has adopted four children orphaned by a niece and a nephew who died of AIDS in Zambia. She said she would be resting if there were no AIDS epidemic. Instead, she has come out of retirement to help care for 61 additional AIDS orphans in Kadwe, the same town where Mwenda and [Priscilla Mwanza] live. Mary Anna Beer, 62, a retired teacher from Newmarket, Ontario, said she became interested in AIDS in the late 1980s, when friends died of it, and began to understand the plight of African grandmothers in six trips to eight countries since 1993. She said she had helped a committee raise nearly 1 million Canadian dollars, or about $900,000, for the Lewis Foundation and publish a manual, available online at York4StephenLewis.ca, advising how to raise awareness about AIDS in Africa. Lewis's daughter, Ilana Landsberg- Lewis, who runs the foundation, said the gathering had three goals. One was to spread awareness about the plight of the African grandmothers. A second was to get the grandmothers to show the world what they need, what their agenda is and what response they want. A third was to raise money for them

Reflecting those efforts, Bill Gates said at the conference Sunday night that there was ''a new sense of optimism'' in Africa because ''the world is doing far more than ever before to fight AIDS.'' Mr. Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, and his wife, Melinda, who have made stopping AIDS the top priority for their foundation, gave keynote addresses at the conference. They called for increased global access to H.I.V. prevention and treatment programs and greater efforts to dispel the stigma of AIDS. One was the Zambian government's leadership in promoting the program and its decision to eliminate medical fees for patients seeking H.I.V. care. The second was the use of nurses and physician assistants to compensate for a critical shortage of doctors. The third was use of a computerized system to monitor patients. The fourth was the large amount of money made available by the Bush administration initiative, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a five-year, $15 billion program that serves 16 countries, 13 of them in Africa. Dr. Peter Piot, the executive director of the United Nations AIDS program, said in an opening talk that the world must develop a sustainable plan to treat and prevent AIDS over the next several decades. ''We must ensure that no credible national AIDS plan goes unfunded, now or in the decades ahead,'' Dr. Piot said

Ant Bully [Motion Picture] -- LUCAS NICKLE (voice by Zack Tyler Eisen) is a short, spectacled 10-year-old boy whom his mother calls 'Peanut' and treats him like a much younger child. He is bullied by Steve (Myles Jeffrey), who says, 'What are you going to do about it? Nothing, because I'm big and you're small.' Lucas turns his pent-up anger and humiliation toward an ant colony in the garden, besieging it with a water hose until the ant wizard Zoc (Nicolas Cage) devises a magic potion to shrink 'Lucas the Destroyer' down to ant size. The ants then capture the shrunken boy, and the queen ant (Meryl Streep) decides to teach him the ways of the ants: mutual respect, teamwork, rules of cooperative behavior. Ultimately, these lessons enable a newly confident, full-sized Lucas to stand up to his mother and to defeat the old bully. 'MANY bullies were once bullied themselves and they have learned to identify with the aggressor,' says Dr. Heather Krell, associate professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at UCLA. 'It is totally believable that Lucas would transfer his aggression to the ant colony.'

They are the ''AIDS grannies'' of Africa: women like Matilda Mwenda, 51, of Zambia, who has lost two of her seven children to AIDS, leaving five orphaned grandchildren in her care, along with two nieces who were orphaned when her sister died of AIDS. The three women are among about 100 African grandmothers who flew here for a four-day gathering that ends Sunday with a march to the opening of the 16th International AIDS Conference. The gathering, which brought the African women together with about 200 Canadian grandmothers (very few of them dealing with AIDS in their immediate families), is believed to be the first large one dedicated to helping grandmothers cope with the AIDS pandemic. Cherry Matimuna, 53, is a nurse who has adopted four children orphaned by a niece and a nephew who died of AIDS in Zambia. She said she would be resting if there were no AIDS epidemic. Instead, she has come out of retirement to help care for 61 additional AIDS orphans in Kadwe, the same town where Ms. Mwenda and Ms. [Priscilla Mwanza] live

In the last six years, the conference has been in Durban, South Africa and in Bangkok. This was done in part to give scientists in modern laboratories and hospitals their first view of the challenges in delivering anti-retroviral therapy in developing countries, where most of the world's HIV-infected people live. The conferences also helped doctors in developing countries get up to speed on AIDS and encouraged scientists to conduct research on AIDS problems peculiar to their geographic area. In a speech at the Durban conference in 2000, President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa refused to acknowledge HIV as the cause of AIDS. Minutes later, he walked out of a televised forum as Nkosi Johnson, 11, spoke of being born with HIV. Johnson said he wished that the government would 'start giving AZT to pregnant HIV mothers to help stop the virus being passed on to their babies.' The boy died the following year. Then, in 1996, reports at the conference in Vancouver, Canada, showed that a combination of new anti-retroviral drugs, called protease inhibitors, and older ones could successfully treat AIDS, extending the lives of many. If Coca-Cola could deliver its product in Africa, an AIDS expert said in Vancouver, then the world could deliver AIDS drugs to poor countries