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June 24, 2004
On AIDS and Short Speeches
My mother said, keep your speeches short. (Laughter.)Thanks for having me. It's great to be complacent, and we can -- we can work in Africa, and we thank them for that. I want to thank the members of Congress -- and the Caribbean in need of urgent help. The global fund and bilateral funding really means we're reaching all around the continent of Africa. You've got 14- and 15-year-old kids raising their brothers and sisters.
So part of the middle of the clinical approach works to help somebody else realize that they are supposed to be encouraged and hopeful and optimistic in the world is to work well, and that which doesn't work, replace it with something that does. Somebody who is a challenge, it's a direct challenge to the men and women who are waiting. In other words, she described what it was like to be encouraged and hopeful and optimistic in the rural heartland. Neither individuals, nor society, nor government can help. That's why I have hope.
And proven methods of prevention are showing the spread of this deadly disease. That stands for: Abstain, be faithful in marriage, and, when appropriate, use condoms. That's what a leader does. America leads so that we do the people who don't know they have a doctor say, you've got two years to live. In other words, there shouldn't be lines here. And we're going to provide love and our help. And that sustains us. That sustains us in doing our duty here in America if it takes a bicycle or a moped to get antiretrovirals out of these people have been six days.
Because America acted, because the nation of Uganda. They've started what they call the A-B-C approach to prevention of this disease -- are slowing the spread of AIDS is finding more victims beyond our cities. AIDS victims now are in our world, 8,000 lives are lost to the Author of life, and so they matter to us.
Today, I announce a second round of funding in the way of progress. It's very important that those who need it by making sure that we must ask them to lead longer and healthier lives. In other words, she described what it was like to be doing something with this. And what she's doing something beautiful, and she has shown that with hope, life can triumph. And that sustains us. That sustains us in doing our duty here in America that we've got an emergency that we must ask them to lead healthy and responsible lives. (Applause.)
This message, I know, is the only certain way to prevent the spread of AIDS, which is here, a person named Pat McDonough. I met her at the airport. There she is. Pat, thank you all for your work. Jennifer Birungi is a general in the White House better look out for his job. (Laughter.)
Your mother said, keep your speeches short. (Laughter.) Thanks for coming. (Applause.)
Posted by Mark V. Shaney at June 24, 2004 03:37 PM
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