obama administration, i'd like to in america's work in healthit's called the global health initiative, ghi for short, and it represents a new approach, informed by new thinking and aimed at a new goal. to save the greatest possible number of lives, both by increasing our existing health programs and by building upon them to help countries develop their own capacity to improve the health of their own people. now, before i discuss the specifics of the initiative, let me just take a step back. some may ask why is a secretary of state giving a speech about global health. there are a lot of other crises in the world, as i am well aware. some might accuse me of taking a little break from those crises to (laughter) come to sais to talk about global health. what exactly does maternal health, or immunizations, or the fight against hiv and aids have to do with foreign policy? well, my answer is everything. we invest in global health to strengthen fragile or failing states. we have seen the devastating impact of aids on countries stripped of their farmers, teachers, soldiers, health workers, and othe

it is called the global health initiative, ghi, and represents a new approach, informed by new thinking and aimed at a new goal, to say with the greatest number of lives by increasing our existing health programs and by building upon them to help countries develop their own capacity to improve the health of their own people. before i discuss the specifics, let me take a step back. some may ask why is a secretary of state's giving a speech about global health? some might accuse me of taking a break from other crises to talk about global health. what does maternal health or immunizations or the fight against hiv aids have to do with foreign policy? my answer is, everything. we invest in global help to strengthen fragile states. we have seen the impact of aids and countries stripped of their farmers, teachers, health workers, and other professionals, as well as the millions of orphaned children left behind, whose needs far exceed what any government agency can provide. the destabilizing impact of aids the clinton administration to classify this as a threat. the center for strategic and int

maternal and child health a key focus for ghi. is a cause of death among women and the knock-on effects in child treatnt. the science is allowing us to change the conversation. we are going to have a microbicide in a couple of years. there is a new movement to make treatment more efficient. finally, leverage. the investments inpepfar give us many opportunities to increase our diplomatic leverage. our partnership agreements which we negotiate with countries. i would argue that would just happen in uganda and the msm law and death sentence that was going to be imposed, that our state department was able to engage very effectively in order to turn that around there. i've seen a lot of diplomatic opportunitiein pepfar. i think one of the questions we ought to ask again is now how does it limit us diplomatically, but how do we have more opportunities we are not taking diplomatically because we are imposing partnership agreements every few years. >> i seem to be completely ineffective asking to you ke your questions shorter to get more

it's called the global health initiative, ghi for short, and it represents a new approach, informed by new thinking and aimed at a new goal -- to save the greatest possible number of lives, both by increasing our existing health programs and by building upon them to help countries develop their own capacity to improve the health of their own people. now, before i discuss the specifics of the initiative, let me just take a step back. some may ask why is a secretary of state giving a speech about global health, there are a lot of other crises in the world, as i am well aware. some might accuse me of taking a little break from those crises to -- [laughter] -- come to sais to talk about global health. what exactly does maternal health, or immunizations, or the fight against hiv and aids have to do with foreign policy? well, my answer is everything. we invest in global health to strengthen fragile or failing states. we have seen the devastating impact of aids on countries stripped of their farmers, teachers, soldiers, health workers, and other professionals, as well as the millions of orpha

it's called the global health initiative, ghi for short, and it represents a new approach, informed by new thinking and aimed at a new goal -- to save the greatest possible number of lives, both by increasing our existing health programs andy building upon them to help countries develop their own capacity to improve the health of their own people. now, before i discuss the specifics of the initiative, let me just take a step back. some may ask why is a secretary of state giving a speechbout global health, there are a lot of oth crises in the world, as i am well aware. some might accuse me of taking a little break from those crises to -- [laughter] -- come sais to talk aboutlobal health. what exactly does maternal health, or immunizations, or the fight against hiv and aids have to do with foreign policy? well, my answer is everything. we invest in global health to strengthen fragile or faili states. we have seen the devastating impact of aids on countries stripped of their farmers, teachers, soldiers, health workers, and other professionals, as we as the millions of orphaned and vulnera