Religious leaders from around the world attended the event. How we answer will depend upon how well we work together as partners across lines of nationality, faith, religion, color, sexual orientation. It will depend upon, in equal measure, our will and our wallet. The United States, Clinton said, has an extra responsibility now to take a leadership role in fighting the AIDS pandemic because of its economic prosperity.
Prevention is the most effective tool in our arsenal.
No matter the cultural or religious factors to be overcome, families must talk about the facts of life before too many more learn the facts of death. When the disease threatens to triple child mortality and to reduce life expectancy by 20 years in some African countries, it is time to say that AIDS is also a moral crisis. Belinda, thank you for your wonderful remarks. I'm not going anywhere, I'm just going to be in a different line of work. I'll still be there for you.