By Admin1 (admin) on Tuesday, April 29, 2003 - 3:42 pm: Edit Post |
White House thanks Peace Corps Director for help on Global HIV/AIDS Initiative
" I want to thank Gaddi Vasquez, who's the Director of the Peace Corps, who is here. We just came from a roundtable discussion, and somebody came up with the idea, as this initiative goes forward and we get a good piece of legislation out of Congress, and when I sign it, hopefully before Memorial Day, one of the things we may want to do is to convert some of our Peace Corps to helping people in Africa who have got AIDS. So Gaddi, I want you to think carefully about that idea."We have posted a story following this one about the kind of work the Peace Corps is already doing in AIDS education in Africa. Read the President's full remarks at: