Former US president Bill Clinton is working hard to better coordinate the HIV/AIDS battle in developing nations, the country's Philadelphia Inquirer reported on Tuesday.
He said that while he had not done enough during his term, the Clinton Foundation was currently working with the governments of Rwanda, Mozambique and Tanzania, as well as several Caribbean nations, to tackle HIV/AIDS.
"Most of what we did about AIDS was in America ... but we didn't appreciate the explosive growth of the epidemic around the world," Clinton said.
He hoped to use his foundation to treat some 700,000 people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean during the next five years.
"Nothing would please me more than, instead of 700,000 or 800,000, we treat 8 million within a couple of years," Clinton added.
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