Later Monday, Bush and First Lady Laura Bush will participate in a forum with mega-church Pastor Rick Warren to discuss the fight against AIDS.
"HIV is still a major threat to public health throughout the world despite progress made over the years in some countries," the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warned in a statement Friday.
About two thirds of the world's HIV-positive cases are in sub-Saharan Africa. At least one person in 10 lives with HIV in nations such as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Zambia, the IFRC said in a June report.
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