Press Release: Clinton Global Initiative and CNN Produce Three Global Summit Television Specials

President Bill Clinton was joined by leading AIDS experts and activists including Dr. Paul Farmer, Dr. Zeda Rosenberg, Hank McKinnell, and Dr. Helene Gayle, to discuss the AIDS epidemic and ways to eradicate it for a CNN Special presentation. Dr. Sanjay Gupta served as the moderator of the hour-long discussion called “The End of AIDS” which will air Saturday and Sunday nights at 8 and 11pm EST. This is the first of three hour-long specials the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) and CNN are making to highlight the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).

The program asked participants and audience members to imagine themselves in a world where AIDS has been eradicated, and examine how this was achieved. The larger issue of global public health and ways of establishing efficient healthcare systems around the world were also discussed.

“AIDS is one of the most pressing challenges facing our world today,” said President Clinton. “If we don't act now to bring affordable treatment to those living with the disease, we could lose an entire generation.”

President Clinton and his foundation's HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI) have been working to bring care and treatment to those living with HIV/AIDS since 2002. In that time, CHAI has brought care and treatment to over a quarter million people by working with governments to develop treatment models and drug companies to reduce the cost of drugs and testing.

Learning from the experience of the Clinton Foundation's work on AIDS, and the power people have when they take committed action to solve a problem, the Clinton Global Initiative was launched in September 2005 as a non-partisan catalyst for action, bringing together a community of global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world's most pressing global challenges, of which AIDS is one. “It is important to remember that AIDS is just one of the many health crises facing us” President Clinton concluded. “Even if we 'end' AIDS, we still have a tremendous amount of work to do to help people with diseases like TB, malaria, and diharreal diseases and have to bring clean water and establish efficient health care infrastructure in the developing world. My foundation and its programs like CGI and CHAI will continue to do all that they can to address these problems.”

CGI and CNN previously worked together at the inaugural meeting of CGI on a similar type panel discussion.

The second show will be filmed in August and the third will take place on the eve of the second meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York.

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