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Bill Clinton to give anti-AIDS lecture in Beijing

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Former president of the United States Bill Clinton will attend an international seminar on AIDS and SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and deliver a lecture on global AIDS prevention and control efforts, a seminar official said Friday.

Hu Dongcheng, chairman of the organizing committee of the Qinghua University International Seminar on AIDS and SARS, told a press conference that Bill Clinton would lecture at the seminar which will open on Nov. 10 in Beijing.

Hu said he did not know how much the university would pay for Clinton's lecture.

"We haven't discussed that issue with Mr. Clinton," said Hu, also the university's vice president.

Clinton has used his influence to push for the global prevention and control of AIDS since he left the oval office, said Dr. David Da-i Ho, a pioneering AIDS researcher who invented the therapeutic "cocktail" of protease inhibitors for patients infected with HIV.

Dr. Ho told the press conference that Bill Clinton had planned to visit China earlier in 2003 but was forced to delay due to the SARS outbreak.

Some 300 medical experts, government officials, academics and sociologists will attend the seminar, according to the organizing committee.

"For universities like Qinghua, it is a new topic to study how to participate in the global AIDS prevention and control efforts from the perspective of social sciences," Hu said.

The international seminars are divided into five special topics,including the dissemination of knowledge on the prevention and treatment of AIDS and SARS, governmental responsibilities, public participation, roles of the mass media and international cooperation.

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