Former President Bill Clinton Arrives in Vietnam for HIV/AIDS Work

Former US President Bill Clinton arrived in Hanoi Tuesday on a two-day visit to Vietnam as chairman of the Clinton Foundation’s HIV/AIDS Initiative.

Welcoming Clinton at the airport were senior officials from the health and foreign affairs ministries and the US embassy.

On Wednesday Clinton and his delegation will have meetings with Vietnamese agencies, discussing distribution of drugs to children with HIV/AIDS under the initiative.

He will also speak to Vietnamese students about HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.

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Before arriving in Vietnam, he paid a two-day visit to Cambodia and signed a memorandum with its government, under which the Clinton Foundation would expand its treatment for HIV/AIDS-infected children in Cambodia.

In Vietnam the foundation has assisted HIV/AIDS programs since 2005 in partnership with the government.

Thanh Nien News