President Clinton gave the plenary address on Monday 19 July, 2010
He spoke of the problems in the USA and said that he appreciated the frustration of those who shouted about Broken Promises, but things bad in the USA and basically, more got to be done with less money - he did not say if that also go to fighting war in Iraq and Afghanistan and fighting drugs.
He note that means less technical assistance and report writing, and less travel to meetings and per diems and so on, and more direct assistance to local organisations who could provide services (so those endless GHARP workshops in Guyana would probably end now and people will have to carry their own lunch as well - shucks.
He said is good the Director of Pepfar come , without security. Pepfar will now fund needle exchange and substitution therapy.
He say that since he is no longer President he can say what he like, and nobody dont listen anyways.. so of course we wonder is why he here and not Obama, even via skype like Oprah . He talk about his bucket list (things he want to do before he dead ) and say that he hope that he see his grandchildren and that all grandchildren in the world will get a chance to achieve their potential.
He is glad South AFrica is no longer a pariah in the fight against HIV/AIDS. He did not say anything about the Caribbean.
In his conclusion, he talked about some super collider with sub atomic particles and how the scientist find that they have more positive than negative neurons.. and that the best thing for us is that we have more positive than negative in us.
In an HIV context, we have to reduce the positive and ensure that the negative remains so maybe the speech writer did not write this part for him.
Some people stand up and clap for him.
No, y'all bad mind Caribbean people.. we did not ask President Clinton what flavour condom Monica use or anything about the best condom to put on a cigar.
