secretary sebelius and i were saying this podium is awfully high. [laughter] thank you and i hope that you all have a better sense of what we sought to accomplish in the way we went about doing it, and now i would like to open the floor for a few questions. if you could let us know your name and where you are from we would appreciate it. why don't we start here. >> i would like to-- my name is robin webb from jackson. i would like to see the day the 2000 people living with hiv in mississippi are the same as other areas of the country because disparities and inequities of the services and it looks like so many folks have lost hope that there will ever come that day. has there have been any discussion about geographic disparities or geographic inequities in terms of services and in terms of how they are going to be delivered and how the strategy will work? >> absolutely. >> thank you robin. we recognize when we talk about concentrating on the community that gratis or is there a different elements and certainly geographic differences is something we co

dr sebelius you mentioned new york you compared moscow to new york and saying and then later you you continued saying that moscow has a possibility to to to become a great great city now. do you like new york because well i mean i love seattle well atlanta is i like atlanta washington's ok but new york city i really hate it well i think it's no place to live in i mean i live my heart and well it's not the same as i'm going to visit as a tourist. would you like to live in milan i was really my life and sometimes many times i was teaching in jail when i was leaving jail i was already very practically at seven o'clock in the afternoon to the mail in my heart and so it's laughable you think you're using a livable city as a livable place yes in my opinion the most. rational she's in a war but rather is the city of the old people you can go to manhattan and we really as if you are born there because bali for the cinema for the leader for many respects anyway ok but so that is a very interesting the brownlees between the battle for money. in the therapies and that mosque is really cool so s

serious and cover the economy and health care with secretary of health and human services kathleen sebelius doing many of the videos, but there are some fun ones, to like questions for astronaut sally ride. you can post these on your blog because they're all public domain. there are some critics who complain that this is just not enough. with all this information that the government is making available, who is actually reviewing it? well, one site is ellen miller's sunlight foundation and its sunlight labs, founded in 2006 with the mission of using the revolutionary power of the internet to make government information more meaningful and accessible to citizens like revealing the connections between lawmakers and health care organizations. instead of writing an article about the chummy relationship, they actually create an easy-to-understand graphic map that connects all these players together. it's a great way to visualize the senate-lobbying complex. click on sunlight labs to get their labs. in their apps for america contest, it harnessed the community to create tools using government data

secretary sebelius said they acted quickly.ave been pounding the pavement trying to get the money before the beginning of the year. if it takes six to seven months, i don't know if that qualifies as a quick turn-around time. >> one of the first things this administration did, while it didn't mention the word "aids" was to remove $400 million from the stimulus package for h.i.v. testing, which would have made a major difference, and certainly qualifies as stimulus given the fact that it could have circulated very quickly. another question? >> "the new york times" did a story last week on adap and reporting on a lot of the problems you have raised, but it did say something though about although the waiting list was large, whatever the number was, 1900 or something, according to the "new york times" almost everybody on the waiting list was getting their drugs through various programs like the special programs from the pharmaceutical companies. is that true? how many are getting them or how many aren't? >> i don't know the exact nu

health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius aimed to emphasize the urgency. >> we refuse to accept a steal mate, to dig in and just hold the disease at bay. we want to be moving forward. we want to see infections going down once again. access to care increasing, and awareness expanding. the strategy we're releasing today is not an end of our work. it's just the beginning. >> sreenivasan: a uniteded nations report on aids in africa found >> sreenivasan: a united nations report on aids in africa found the number of young people infected with the h.i.v. virus there is falling. it dropped by at least 25% in a dozen countries. the decrease was attributed to people having fewer sexual partners and increasing condom use. the death toll from twin bombings in uganda rose to 76 today, and investigators found evidence the blasts could have been even worse. the bombs hit fans watching sunday's world cup final in the capital city of kampala. however, investigators found an unexploded suicide vest with ball bearings, just like the ones used this weekend in a suburban disco. four foreign s

attorney general eric holder and the health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius made the announcement at a health care fraud summit in miami. >> with today's arrests we're putting would-be criminals on notice. health-care fraud is no longer a safe bet. it's no longer easy money. if you choose to engage in health-care fraud, you will be found. you will be stopped. and you will be brought to justice. >> sreenivasan: medicare fraud costs the government between $60 billion to $90 billion a year. cleaning up the problem is supposed to help to pay for the president's health care overhaul. west virginia is getting a new, temporary u.s. senator. governor joe manchin today tapped carte goodwin, his former general counsel. he's 36 years old. goodwin will succeed the late robert byrd, who died last month at the age of 92. the state legislature is likely to call a special election in november. goodwin is expected to step aside so that governor manchin can run for the final two years of byrd's term. apple moved today to address the so-called "death grip" problem with its latest iphone. users have

kathleen sebelius is the secretary of health and human services. >> it has an impact at every step along the way. on cost. on quality of life. on a productive work force. we are really putting ourselves at a huge disadvantage in a global economy by having a nation that is vastly overweight. >> reporter: but this is not the first time the federal government has sounded the alarm. >> we have addicted ourselves and we're now addicting our children to a sedentary lifestyle, diets that are high in fats, salts and sweets. >> reporter: dr. david thatcher was one of the first to say there was an obesity epidemic in america. >> anybody physically active? >> reporter: that was nearly a decade ago when he was u.s. surgeon general. >> obesity increases the risk of diabetes dramatically. it increases the risk of heart disease, of stroke, of hyper tension. increases the risk of many forms of cancer. and when you think about the cost of health care and the role that chronic diseases play, obesity is a major factor in all of those chronic diseases i've just listed. >> reporter: those costs are staggerin

john kerry evading taxes, tim geithner, hhs sebelius -- $7,000 penalties, william jefferson 13 years and a pen, maxine waters is under investigation and charlie rangel -- this is draining the american spirit. i am a businessman. i pay taxes. i am a job creator and politicians do this. pelosi was to drain the swamp? you are reporting the wrong story, sir. guest: the caller's points are well taken. as i tried to explain it before, do i personally like charlie rangel? yes, i do. and do i personally -- i am friends with a lot of people who have made mistakes. but i just have to point to our newspaper, and if you think there is any soft peddling on this you are barking up the wrong tree. host: is there any action taken, the ethics committee meeting at all, or aren't we pretty well through before the actual trial begins? guest: anything official -- there is nothing on the scheduled officially paired as i tried to indicate before -- nothing on the schedule officially. as i tried to indicate before, going behind the scenes -- host: would you be staking out mr. rangel's office? guest: i will

secretary sebelius has a progress report on obamacare's progress and made no mention of this. i questioned her about and she said only that the administration is "working on it." several weeks went by without any apparent action, and so two weeks ago at the white house, i ask president obama about it personally. everyone heard the question, and we are still waiting for an answer. i tell you all of this with great sadness, sadness for the unborn absolutely, but also sadness for our nation. these policies do not unite americans, they divide americans. and in the coming months, america has to decide whether we're going to continue to allow this to continue. we have recently launched an initiative called americans speaking out, involving engaging the american people directly in a process of crafting a new governing agenda for congress. one of the tools as a website that allows every american to log on, submit their ideas, but on ideas submitted by other americans. i would encourage all of you to go to the web site, tell your neighbors about it, use a to get engaged in your governm

start looking more aggressively at premiums paid on the other hand, i really noticed that secretary sebelius, a former state health insurance commissioner, seems to have that hat back on lately. she is out there hitting hard at the market changes. it is an interest of hers and she is focusing hard on it. host: next call, you are on with ceci connolly "the washington post." caller: i hear a lot about cigarettes and cancer is it causes. but what about alcohol? that causes cancer and accidents that cripples innocent people for life. what are they not doing anything about alcohol? why is it just about cigarettes? guest: a very good point, absolutely, and when i hear in the discussions. many of these things are societal, cultural attitudes that do not necessarily change easily. there are many, many americans out there that feel very much that they ought to be entitled to either a cigarette if they feel it relieves their stress, where a drink after a hard day at work -- or a drink after a hard day at work. there is not necessarily anything wrong with that. but experts tell you is that it is the pe

start looking more aggressively at premiums paid on the other hand, i really noticed that secretary sebelius, a former state health insurance commissioner, seems to have that hat back on lately. she is out there hitting hard at the market changes. it is an interest of hers and she is focusing hard on it. host: next call, you are on with ceci connolly "the washington post." caller: i hear a lot about cigarettes and cancer is it causes. but what about alcohol? that causes cancer and accidents that cripples innocent people for life. what are they not doing anything about alcohol? why is it just about cigarettes? guest: a very good point, absolutely, and when i hear in the discussions. many of these things are societal, cultural attitudes that do not necessarily change easily. there are many, many americans out there that feel very much that they ought to be entitled to either a cigarette if they feel it relieves their stress, where a drink after a hard day at work -- or a drink after a hard day at work. there is not necessarily anything wrong with that. but experts tell you is that it is the pe