Kazakhstan: Former U.S. President Clinton Extends AIDS Initiative
7th Sep 2005, 10:15 GMT
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton, paying a visit to Almaty on 6 September, hailed what he called Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev’s commitment to introducing political and social reforms to the Central Asian country. In talks with Health Minister Erbolat Dossaev, Clinton signed a memorandum that would include Kazakhstan in the Clinton Foundation’s Procurement Consortium, a group providing reduced-cost anti-retroviral drugs and HIV/AIDS diagnostic equipment to more than 40 countries.
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