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...veru touching,...muda mchache uliopita Bw Gordon Brown kwenye speech yake kwa GMB UNION CONFERENCE hapa UK amemtaja mtoto Maria aliyekutana naye Tanzania mwaka 2008. Inaonesha binti huyo alim -touch sana kwenye ile ziara yake. Wangapi wanamkumbuka Maria? na wapi alipo sasa? ...na muendelezo wa mapambano dhidi ya UKIMWI.

Tour diary: Gordon Brown in Africa

The memory Gordon Brown says keeps returning to him - the one that he says is burnt into him - is that of a 12 year-old girl, whose parents died of Aids, and who is HIV positive herself.

Gordon Brown, pictured in Tanzania


Mr Brown seems haunted by her eyes, desolate of all hope. And then he talks of those eyes that do inspire optimism: an extraordinary performance by schoolgirls of Kenya's largest slum, advancing with crowded menace, flicking their hips in a manner almost as disturbing, before the finale of a clenched fist salute and shout of "free education - free education for all". Mr Brown's message generally, that compassion must become action before that hope is squandered.

Chancellor unveils ‘big and bold’ plans to fight Aids

Chancellor Gordon Brown speaks to Paul Matoly, a 38-year-old Tanzanian living with Aids, in Ihumwa Village in Dodoma, Tanzania.
Brown was on a six-day tour of Africa where he set out his $10 billion plan to get wealthy countries, and the US in particular, to massively increase funding for Aids prevention, vaccine research and drug provision.
Brown said a doubling of research funding could bring forward development of a ‘partly effective’ HIV vaccine by 2012.
Executive director of the Global Fund, Professor Richard Feachem said Mr Brown’s ideas were “big and bold. Just what we need to win the war against this virus.”