Clinton Hails China's AIDS Progress, Offers Help

BEIJING (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said Wednesday China has made progress in fighting AIDS since he last visited in 2003 and his foundation would give drugs and help train doctors battling the disease....
"China has made impressive progress in building a comprehensive system of care for all Chinese patients in need," Clinton said at a reception in Beijing.

The government has estimated China has 840,000 people with HIV or AIDS, although activists and experts say a more accurate figure would be between 1 million and 1.5 million.

Earlier, Clinton signed an agreement with the Chinese Health Ministry for the Clinton Foundation to provide about $70,000 worth of drugs to treat about 200 infected Chinese children.

Clinton also announced the setting up of a fellowship to take urban doctors trained in treating AIDS to rural areas to treat people and train doctors. Several hundred physicians will be trained over the next two years, he said.
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"I am confident that China will fulfil Premier Wen's promise to fight HIV/AIDS with the international community, to protect this nation and all humankind and I want to do our part," Clinton said.

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The most progressive aspect of Clinton's foreign policy was the policy of strategic partnership with China.

It's a good policy, for the most part. Trade and cultural influences may lead to the Chinese taking back their country from the communists-they can only keep a billion people down for so long. If the christians, buddists and falun gong members combined forces, they could succeed-Red China has been brutal to members of any religious faith. Although, despite free trade and all that, I try to avoid buying products made in China because of the slave labor.

If China takes action toward Taiwan, we should support Taiwan, however.

Bushco is turning our country into a third world nation.