US President Met With AIDS Patients in Uganda

World | July 11, 2003, Friday // 00:00
US President Met With AIDS Patients in Uganda US President Geogre Bush greets a member of the Ugandan Children's Choir after they performed for him at the AIDS Support Organization Center in Uganda. Photo by AP

US President George Bush visited Friday an Ugandan AIDS clinic and met with about two dozen AIDS patients. Uganda is a model for stemming its once-spiraling rate of HIV infection. It stands in sharp contrast to Botswana -- another stop on Bush's African journey -- which is struggling with the world's highest HIV infection rate. "This is such a land of hope in the heart of Africa," Bush said about Uganda. Earlier he met with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and praised him for reducing infection rates.

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